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To get beautiful, lush indoor and garden plants, you need to know about auspicious days for caring for them. A florist's calendar for May will help determine such cycles. In it, you can find information about when to plant, feed, trim flowering crops. If you follow the schedule of favorable and unfavorable days, you can successfully plant and decorate not only the windowsill, the balcony, but also the summer cottage.
Florist lunar calendar for May
The movement of sap in plants largely depends on the lunar phases. This happens by analogy with the ebb and flow. On favorable days (when the Earth's satellite is growing), flowers can be transplanted and pruned. During this period, they become more hardy and tenacious.
Moon phases in may
In May, according to the lunar calendar, the celestial body will go through 4 main phases. It is believed that no gardening work should be planned for the Full Moon. It is good to have time to do them before the beginning of the decay period.
The lunar phases will change in the following order:
| 1. | New moon | During this period (the day before the New Moon and the day after), work can be carried out to combat weeds and pests, to do sanitary pruning, watering, loosening the soil, sowing seeds, rooting bulbs. |
| 2. | first quarter (waxing moon) | During this period, cultures are rooted, planted, transferred to a new place, watered and fed. |
| 3. | Full moon | The day before and after, you can thin out dense plantings, uproot weeds, take measures to combat pests, diseases, weeds. |
| 4. | third quarter of the moon (celestial body decreases) | Bulbous ones can be planted during this period, other species are not worth it. You can carry out activities for thinning, uprooting weeds, pest control. |
When the moon is growing, it is good to do planting. With decreasing - weeding, weed and pest control.
Auspicious days
According to astrologers, on these days of the lunar calendar, you can carry out any manipulations in the garden and with houseplants. Nothing will negatively affect their growth and flowering.
During this period, sowing, transplantation, and rooting are carried out. You can also fertilize and prune your plants. All procedures will have a beneficial effect on the growth and flowering of the culture.
Bad days
Landing operations cannot be carried out on these days of the lunar cycle. Flowering crops will not take root well and may die.
On these days, only weeding and pruning of dry, unnecessary shoots can be carried out.
Florist's calendar for may 2021: planting and caring for garden flowers
Planting, watering, feeding and loosening the soil is carried out in accordance with the lunar cycles. Sowing work is carried out on favorable days, on the rest - pruning and feeding.
Sowing calendar for May 2021 for florists
Sowing seeds and rooting of bulbous garden cold-resistant plants are carried out on New Moon. At this time, seeds of garden annuals are sown: poppy, bindweed, calendula, cornflowers. You can also sow garden chamomile, lupine, asters, gypsophila, matthiola. Large seeds should be soaked in warm water for several hours before planting.Small ones - mix with sand to make them easier to sow.
In the middle of the month, when it gets warmer, lavatera, marigolds, nasturtium, purslane are sown on the growing moon in the open ground. Also, seedlings of garden crops are rooted: godetia, snapdragon, chrysanthemum, ornamental cabbage, scabiosa.
At the end of May, daisies, amaranth, zinnia, brachycoma, gladiolus bulbs, dahlia tubers, rudbeckia are sown.
Perennial care
According to the lunar calendar of the florist for May 2021, during the growing moon, work can be carried out to care for perennial garden flowers. It is necessary to remove winter shelters, provide access to sunlight for perennial crops. On unfavorable days, you can clean the beds from the remnants of last year's plants, cut off dry parts of flowers, unnecessary shoots.
In early May, before the start of the active growth phase, tuberous garden crops (aster, helenium, lychnis, echinacea, dahlias) can be divided.
If the spring is protracted, at the beginning of May, according to the favorable days of the lunar calendar, the tubers of frost-resistant perennials are divided, then they are planted and rooted in a new place. These garden flowers include small-flowered chrysanthemum, phlox, garden buttercup. Each separated plant must have at least 3 buds. The baby is cut off with a sharp garden knife, the cut site is treated with activated carbon.
Young garden flowers are transplanted into the soil previously dug up with humus. If the threat of night frost persists, the seedlings are covered with a film for the night. During the day, for a week or two, the garden flowers are shaded.
In the evening, if there is no frost in May, garden plants are watered. The procedure can be carried out on favorable and unfavorable days.
All garden non-flowering perennials need sanitary pruning. May is the right time for that. Pruning dry shoots is carried out only on unfavorable days of the calendar. The shortening of long shoots, in order to get good lateral branches, is done on favorable days in May, according to the lunar calendar.
Top dressing and watering can be carried out on all days of the lunar cycle. If a garden plant needs additional fertilization after an unsuccessful planting, it is applied only to the growing moon on favorable days of the calendar.
Lunar calendar for may 2021: care for indoor flowers
On favorable days, the internal juices of plants are poured to the leaves, on unfavorable days - to the roots. When the rhizome is saturated with moisture, it is not manipulated. The transplant will not be crowned with success, the survival rate of the culture will be reduced.
When can you transplant indoor flowers
On favorable dates for transplanting indoor crops, internal juices from the root enter the foliage. The root is injured less, and the survival rate of the culture in a new place is higher. This process takes place during the growth of the moon. It is not recommended to disturb indoor flowers on the waning moon. Juices from the leaves enter the root, when transplanting it is injured, the survival rate of the culture decreases.
If the culture has blossomed, it is also not worth worrying about. Even on an auspicious day of the lunar calendar, the transplant will not be successful.
Recommendations for the care of indoor flowers in May
If in April, indoor crops were not transplanted, this is done in May, but not during the flowering period. A layer of drainage is laid at the bottom of the flower pot, a fertile soil mixture is poured on top, the houseplant is rooted. In about 14 days, the flower will take root with proper care.
In order for an indoor transplanted flower to take root quickly, do the following:
- Flowers on the windowsills from 11 o'clock in the afternoon until 14:00 shade from the first rays of the sun in May. They are especially destructive for orchids, geraniums, begonias, ferns, violets.
- Watering indoor plants is carried out in the morning or evening. Every day, until the flower takes root, it is sprayed. After transplanting, the humidification of indoor flowers should be regular, but moderate.
- On favorable days of the month, in order to achieve abundant flowering in jasmine, fuchsia, pelargonium, pinch the top.
- If 14 days have not passed after the transplant, houseplants should not be taken out onto the balcony. After this time, if there is no frost, the flowers can be taken out into the air for hardening.
Houseplants are fed in the spring 1 time, in May. Choose an auspicious day of the lunar calendar when the celestial body grows. Any ready-made substrate corresponding to a particular flower is chosen as a fertilizer. It is convenient to use liquid fertilizers for indoor crops. They are brought in according to the instructions.
It is important to inspect flowers once a week for the presence of dry leaves, shoots, pests. Damaged stems and leaves are cut on unfavorable days of the lunar calendar, on the waning moon. In the same period, pest control is carried out. This also applies to indoor trees: lemon, ficus, dracaena, palm trees.
In the last spring month, balcony indoor flowers are sown: petunias, lobelia, viola.
Cyclamens, amaryllis, gloxinia and hyacinths are removed after flowering in a dark, cool place. Water once every 2 weeks until the next season.
Conclusion
The florist's calendar for May will tell you when to carry out this or that procedure for caring for indoor and garden plants. Their growth and flowering are not always influenced only by weather conditions, timely transplantation, pruning. The phases of the moon also contribute to this process. If, when caring for flowers, you focus on the phases of the moon, you can increase the survival rate of plants, encourage them to bloom lush.
