How to care for peonies in the spring at the cottage

Pet owners of summer residents - peonies need care in early spring. To take care of the health of lush bushes should start immediately after the retreat of winter, as soon as the soil thaws.

Shelter removal

This event has a universal "recipe": remove the shelter from the pions, when the snow finally disappears from the site, the night frosts will go to "no" and a stable positive temperature will be established. Open the bushes is graduallyfirst letting them just get used to the temperature.

In order to form the young buds, unaccustomed to the sun did not get burned, hold the disclosure in cloudy weather, and then for the first time pritenite bushes.

Inspection of bushes after winter

By removing the covering material, you will see sprouted red buds, which are still very vulnerable. Last year's dried shoots may also remain, if you cut the bush is not low enough. Such dry stems worth cuttingso that the newly formed shoots can grow freely. They should also be optimally cleaned from weeds and hardened land around the plantation.

Loosening

The root of both the grassy and tree peony lies quite deep, and to help the water, oxygen and fertilizing easily get to the destination, it is necessary to thoroughly dry the ground before watering.

It should be done very carefully, just as splayed kidneys are very vulnerable to the slightest mechanical damage. Careful and regular loosening over time will help to form a moisture-retaining layer of soil, which will contribute to reducing the regularity of irrigation.

Also, be sure to loosen the ground after the rains, so that the crust of the earth, which is formed at the same time, does not interfere with the access of oxygen to the root.

Watering

Immediately after removing the shelter, the kidneys need a fairly abundant watering. According to the rules of plant care, before the first top dressing in spring, the soil under the future bush of pions should be well watered beforehand. DFurther watering is carried out, though rarely, but abundantly, because at the stage of vegetative maturation the plant requires a lot of water for growth.

Feedings

The first top dressing of pions after winter consists in applying fertilizer to the near-root area. It is up to you to choose the fertilizer of a bush, because the choice is quite wide: bird droppings, mullein solution, humus, as well as various mineral fertilizers. In liquid form, you can make a solution of potassium permanganate.

Before flowering, peonies should be fed with ammonium nitrate at the rate of 15 g saltpeter per 10 liters of water, and when the plant grows, water the foliage of the peony with mineral fertilizers. Adding leaves to the ground immediately in the ground helps to add one tablespoon of washing powder or soap chips to the solutions.

Support

Peony bushes during flowering bend under the weight of the buds, which is why it is necessary to take care of the props for the bushes during this period. For this, you can use wooden rods bent into an arch, plastic or metal reinforcement.If you are a novice gardener and have encountered this for the first time and suddenly, then the stems you can temporarily heap tie.

Mulching

Despite the fact that the peony has a rather razorous shrub and leaves create a shadow near the root area, the young plant needs additional mulch. Retaining moisture is especially necessary after applying supplements. As mulch, you can use tree bark, sawdust, hay, large stones. For peonies, it is best to use stones: this will also serve as a decor.

Preventive treatment

Usually, 2-3 prophylactic treatments are carried out with an interval of one and a half to two weeks: the first is watering when the kidneys appear; The next two are spraying the plants with one of the solutions below. Often, the stems and leaves suffer from rust, gray rot, brown leaf spot and powdery mildew, these particular diseases can ruin a whole shrub in a matter of days.

Ants can also cause a lot of damage to pions: the aphid they spread can ruin not only the bud buds, but also the harvest of adjacent flower beds. From diseases and pions of pions most often use the following means.

From diseases:

• a solution of copper sulphate (50-70 grams per 10 liters of water);
• Bordeaux liquid (100 g of copper sulphate and 75 g of quicklime per 10 liters of water);
• Burgundy liquid (100 g of copper sulphate and 75 g of soda per 10 liters of water);
• spraying with 0.6-0.7% solution of copper oxychloride.

From ants:

• a mixture of boric acid and honey (2 tablespoons of honey are diluted in a small container and a tablespoon of boric acid) are placed directly under the shrub;
• cut onion near the bush;
• a mixture of lime, soda and ash (fall asleep anthill);
• ready chemical solutions.

Having done all the activities correctly, after a month and a half, you will see how the peonies bloom magnificently, thanks to your efforts.