We tell what floral cultures can be planted on a plot in April, how to do it right and how to care for them.
At the end of March, in most regions is established steadily warm weather. It's time to take up the first landings in the open ground, because you want the flowering plants to appear as soon as possible. We'll figure it out what flowers to plant in April and how to care for them.
Listed flowers for landing in April in a short video
All about planting colors in April
Rules of April sowingList of suitable varieties
Care
Rules of April landing
If the snow melted, and the thermometer shows the plus temperature even at night, it's time to take care of the flower bed. For him, choose a well-lit place. It is desirable that the clay content in the soil is small. The selected place is prepared for landings. Locked, dripped the earth. It is best to do it two or three times. In saturated oxygen loose land, the seeds quickly spare. The copper appeared is healthy and strong. To get a good result of flowerflows adhere to the rules.
List of rules worth sticking
- Before sowing flower, he warmed. To do this, cover it on a single-three-day nonwoven underfloor material or a dense film.
- Before landing, the beds are abundant. It is necessary to give time to water up. It takes 12-15 minutes. Such watering is considered correct, otherwise in the overwhelmed soil, the seed can be contrary.
- For laying seeds are made small grooves depth no more than 150 mm. They are convenient to carry out a special tool "Borozdovik" or just a stick. Seeds are laid out in the grooves. Between them should be the distance specified in the instructions. The deepening falls asleep, slightly compacted. Watering is not needed.
- Flowerbed with crops covered with a film. You can make a shelter from nonwoven material over it. After the appearance of the first sprouts, it is removed. If the threat of frosts remains, overnight the pigs are covered. The afternoon is removed in the afternoon, so as not to overload the sprouts.
What flowers to put in the ground in April
In areas with a warm climate, spring has come. Even if it is still pretty cool, agricultural works are beginning in April. In the first half of the month, the flower bed is preparing, in the second begin to landing. We list the varieties of colors to dry into an open ground in April.1. Adonis
The people are called the horizon. It prefers well-drained lightweight with a high content of lime or organic matter. Well, if in the morning there will be the sun in the morning, and after lunch, the shadow is desirable. Best seeds are winter in cool, you can keep them in the refrigerator. Before sowing, they are immersed in warm water, where they lie during the day. Blowing seeds by 15-20 mm. Adonis blooms one of the first on the flower bed.
2. Decorative cabbage
Beautiful unusual plant. It is unpretentious, calmly transfers short-term freezing in spring and autumn. Short cooling favorably reflects the cauldron color, makes the color of its leaves more rich. Decorative culture prefers solar flowerbeds, but will grow in a small shadow. True, in the latter case, its color will fade a little. The best selection of soil is soup or loam with a large content of organic.
Pre-sowing processing is to stratification and germination. Seeds are placed in a rag or tissue, clumsy in a milking fertilizer dissolved in water. Clean on 6 or 7 days in a cool shaded place. After it is good, sowing begin. Seeds are plugged by 10-15 mm, rushing the earth and slightly tamper. The distance between them depends on the cabbage variety. Considering that it grows 40-10 cm in diameter, they leave no less than half a meter between seeds. Seedlings with 3-4 sheets thinned, excess transplanted.
3. Eshcholce
A low plant with beautiful yellow flowers that please the eyes from June to the end of September. The second name is California Mac, as the flowers are very similar to the poppy. This is noticeable in the photo. It grows on drained soils of any type, but prefers a slightly alkaline or neutral composition. Lightwall, it is better blooming on well-lit plots.
Seed in winter is stored in the cool. Sit down without grooves, slightly indulging in the ground. From above mulch with fertile soil or peat. Sometimes the Eshcholce is sown to the lowered snow. In this case, the crops are also covered with mulch. The first shoots are usually waiting for 12-14 days. Fastened sprouts thinned. The optimal distance between them is 18-20 cm.
4. Vasilka
Unpretentious cold-resistant flower with several hundreds of varieties, among which they meet medicinal. All of them are resistant to diseases, abundantly and long bloom. Coloring is diverse: from the usual blue and blue to yellow, pink or purple. For landing fit with neutral pH. It is desirable with a high content of organic. The flowerbed is prepared for 12-14 days. It is drunk by adding 1 square meters. M 100 g of ash, 2,000 g of peat or humus and 1 tbsp. Spoon nitroposki. Fertilizers are made when leaning.
At the end of April, the flowers are sown in well-moisturized land to a depth of 10 mm. Fall asleep and slightly tram. Cover the flower bed with non-woven underfloor material. As dried up, water straight through the no-chican. With the advent of Roskov, this happens in about 6-8 days, the shelter is removed. The pig is thinned. So that the distance between the copies was 10-14 cm.
5. Levka (Mattiola)
Cool-resistant culture with fragrant flowers of pinkish, white, purple or yellow. It feels well in neutral and low-alkaline turf squeeze or loam. If they are exhausted, the addition of organic industries will be required. It is impossible to sow matthiol after any cruciferous. She does not tolerate it. For healthy growth, the levka requires a lot of sun and no convergence.
In April, the seeds of colors sow into small wells, removing one from the other by 22-25 cm. They are placed in three or five seeds, they fall asleep with sand. If the wells are not needed, the grains are mixed with sand and scatter over a pre-moistened ridge. Then a little sprinkle on top of the earth. Shoots are waiting for 7-10 days. The grown sprouts are thinned, they leave about 20 cm between them. To extend the flowering of flowering flowering, it is possible to reappoint Mattioly in two or three weeks. So come several times over the summer.
6. Macs
Large flowers with bright colors. There are no convergence, so they should be planted in areas with deep groundwater. The soil can be any, although most of all they love loam or sath. Preferably good lighting. Even the active rays of the sun are not terrible for them. Before boarding, it is recommended to fit the flowerbed. When pumping on square. The meter contributes 6-7 kg of organic matter: compost or humus.
SEED preferably stratified material. Therefore, it is stored in the refrigerator in winter or laid there for a day before the north. Seeds are very small, for this reason, the grooves or wells are not needed. The soil moisturizes, ripples loosely with teeth and scatter poppy seeds. You do not need to close them, you only need to be a little bother. The pigs appear on 14-26 days. When it is strong enough, it is thinned. Between bushes leave 25-30 cm.
7. IPOMEYA
Decorative liana with bright gramophile flowers. Loves illuminated areas, does not tolerate strong winds. Prefers to grow in a loose soil rich organic. Seeds before sowing should swell. They are placed in a thermos with heated water per day. You can add any biostimulator there. If the swelling did not happen, the seeds are punched with a needle. The procedure is repeated. The prepared seed material is laid in the wells. They are put in two pieces at a short distance one from another. Fall asleep, slightly tram, mulch peat. In the threat of spring frosts make a shelter from the film.
Features of care
In the spring in April, flowers may not need to be watering. It happens after snow winters when a lot of moisture is saved. If it is not enough, it is necessary to water the sprouts. Later, when the sun will be very sealed, the watering is mandatory. But you need to follow certain rules. To burn burns on the stems and leaves, the moisture is fed under the root. Sprinkling is urgently not recommended. Well, if the water will be pre-seized. For this, the capacity is left on the charge for the whole day.
Supports are needed: root and extractive. For different plants, they are conducted with different frequency. On average two or three times in the summer season. It is necessary to know that patients and recently transplanted bushes cannot be fed. Be sure to loosen and accompanying the weeding. It is best to do it after an abundant rain or watering. Loose carefully not to damage the root.
