Garden Aster. Care, Reproduction, Cultivation. Flowers. A Photo

2023 Author: Ava Durham | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-07-30 22:46

The annual aster is one of the most popular plants. Asters reproduce only by seeds. Plants are divided into three groups by height. High - 50-80 cm, medium - 30-50 cm, low - up to 30 cm.

In order for asters to bloom early, they are grown in a greenhouse or in a box. Seeds are sown in mid-March. For sowing, use only fresh soil (unused). Take 3 parts of sod land, 1 part of sand and 1 part of well-weathered peat. After the soil has been watered well, river or well-washed coarse sand is poured on top with a layer of 1.5-2 cm.

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Seeds germinate at a temperature of 20-22 °. Seedlings appear in about a week. For 1 m2 of a box, you need 5-6 g of seeds. After sowing, the boxes are sprinkled with sand with a layer of 0.5 cm and watered from a watering can with a fine strainer. The boxes need to be covered with foil to keep the moisture even. When seedlings appear, the temperature should be 15-16 ° C, at night it is better to lower the temperature to 4 ° C. Seedlings need to be watered well, but rarely, the soil should not be waterlogged. If a disease appears - a black leg, then the plants are watered with water, to which potassium permanganate is added to a saturated pink color.

When the seedlings get stronger, they feed it. Seedlings dive when they have 1-2 true leaves. Approximately 7-10 days after rooting, the seedlings are fed with mullein infusion: 0.5 liters per bucket of water. Seedlings are usually fed twice.

It is impossible to grow an aster in one place for several years in a row, since it will be strongly affected by fusarium. In the middle zone of our country

seedlings are usually planted in mid-May. Low varieties are planted with a distance of 20X 20 cm, medium - 25 X 25 cm, high - 30X 30 cm.

After planting, the seedlings are watered (about 0.5 liters of water per plant), then the soil is loosened and dry soil or weathered peat is poured onto the roots so that a crust does not form.

You can feed asters with organic fertilizers on soils where there is an insufficient humus content. On fertile soils, they are fed with infusion of bird droppings.

You can sow asters in the ground and with seeds. Such plants will be more resistant to bad weather.

As soon as the soil is ripe, you can sow asters. Seeds are sown on the ridge in grooves of 1.5-2 cm, after sowing the ridge is watered from a watering can with a fine strainer. Then the crops are mulched with humus or fertile soil, the grooves are not closed. The ridges are watered only in windy, dry weather 1-2 times in 10-12 days.

You can sow asters before winter. Seeds are sown in prepared ridges with grooves 2 cm deep (in the second half of November). Sowing is mulched with a layer of humus 2-2.5 cm, weathered peat, which are stored in a non-freezing room. The width of the layer is 5 cm. In the spring, without waiting for shoots, focusing on the mulching layer, you can loosen the row spacing.

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Seedlings are thinned out when the first true leaf appears. On poor light soils, asters are fed with mullein. Before feeding, the area is watered. The area should be evenly moisturized. Weeds must be removed on time. Asters loosen only 2-3 cm near the plants, their root system is located close to the soil. In the row spacing, the depth is 5-7 cm.

In the fall, asters can be transplanted into flower pots, and they will delight with their flowering for a long time.