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With the arrival of warmth, gardeners begin to select nutrient compositions for flower beds. You can feed peonies in spring for lush flowering with manure, ash, bone meal or complex mixtures. Each type of fertilizer has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Correctly selected top dressing will stimulate the laying of large, bright and lush buds
The need to feed peonies in spring
Spring feeding is especially important for garden flowers. It depends on it how quickly the plants begin to wake up after the cold weather, whether they have enough strength to lay buds, how long the flowering will be.
If you apply fertilizers in the spring, at the beginning of the growing season, later the peonies will delight you with a lush, bright color. These garden flowers can grow in one place for a single year. This becomes the reason for the impoverishment of the soil, the culture weakens.
From the third year after planting, peonies need regular spring feeding. Only in this way will the leaves of the culture be fleshy and green, and the buds lush and large. A strong plant rarely gets sick, it tolerates insect attacks more easily.
Types of fertilizers for peonies in spring
3 years after planting, as soon as the flowering bush has grown, it is time for mineral fertilizing. In the spring, it is recommended to use solutions of complex compositions for irrigation.
The first top dressing is applied even before the snow melts completely. This could be the beginning or end of March, depending on the region. Stirred 10 g of nitrogen and 15 g of potassium, scatter them in the root zone. As soon as the snow begins to melt, the necessary trace elements will seep to the root system of the flower.
The second top dressing is applied during the bud formation period. Combine 10 g of potassium, 8 g of nitrogen, 15 g of phosphorus, mix with the soil in the root zone.
Top dressing is important for bud formation
In addition to mineral fertilizers, organic fertilizers are also used. They effectively feed peonies in the spring for abundant flowering.
Is it possible to feed peonies with ash
Experienced gardeners often use such feeding in the spring. Fertilization of peonies with ash is carried out at the end of April. Immediately after the snow melts, before the first shoots appear, the ground in the flower garden is crushed with ash.
The substance will strengthen the awakening young plants, in the future it will affect the intensity of the color of flowers
Feeding with ash for peonies is not carried out in a mixture with urea. The substance contributes to the rapid melting of snow and the emergence of new shoots. This is disastrous for them, since in April there is still a high probability of the onset of night frosts.
Is it possible to fertilize peonies with eggshells
The shell is not an effective flower food for peonies. Crushed into powder, mixed with soil from the trunk circle, it is able to lower the acidity of the soil.
The shell, crushed in large fragments, is used as a loosening agent of the soil if it is too dense.
The process of decomposition of the egg shell is long, such drainage will be effective for several years
Is it possible to fertilize peonies with manure
This organic fertilizer is considered the best for feeding peonies in the spring. The substance contributes to the formation of a fertile layer of the earth, enriches it with necessary microelements, improves the structure.
As soon as the flower sprouts grow in size up to 10 cm, they are covered with a thin layer of manure.
Sprinkle organic matter on top with any flower fertilizer
You can feed peonies with manure like this: organic fertilizer is dug up with soil around the plants, then watered abundantly.
You need to use rotted manure, it contains less nitrogen than fresh, does not "burn" the roots and young growth. The abundance of nitrogen in top dressing stimulates the growth of the green part of the crop, while the buds may not form at all.
In spring, only rotted manure is used for feeding.
Fresh manure is used only on depleted soils and when planting plants. You can throw it on the snow at the end of winter. During the melting process, some of the nitrogen will disappear, the required amount of minerals will enter the root system of the peonies.
When to feed peonies in spring
The first top dressing is applied at the end of April, in the southern regions of the country. In the center of Russia, this period will be at the beginning of May, and in the north - at the end of the month. The time depends on the onset of heat, the process of snow melting.
It is important that not all of the snow cover has come off the flower bed. Mineral or organic fertilizers are spread directly on the snow layer, the substances are mixed with melt water, quickly get to the root system of the plant.
How to fertilize peonies in spring
In the spring-summer period, three dressings are enough for a flowering bush. They are brought in, taking into account the important stages of the growing season: awakening and growth after winter, laying buds, flowering.
Top dressing of peonies in early spring
You can feed the plant in April with mineral fertilizers. It is not effective to add them to the soil near the shoots. In the described flower, the rhizome lies deep, it is difficult for nutrients to get to it.
To begin with, stepping back half a meter from the center of the bush, make depressions of no more than 15 cm in the ground with a shovel handle. 3-4 can be dug around the bush. For spring feeding of peonies, the complex fertilizer "Kemira" is used.
They take it in half a tablespoon, pour it into each recess near the bush, add it with earth.
How to feed peonies for abundant flowering
At the end of April, buds begin to form. During this period, the plant especially needs feeding. They will stimulate the formation of new flower buds. At this time, watering with potassium-nitrogen fertilizers is carried out.
A mullein is also suitable for these purposes.
Mullein is bred with water in a ratio of 1: 6 and the bush is watered abundantly
Later, it is necessary to loosen the soil.
How to feed peonies during flowering
The third time the flower bush is fertilized 10-14 days after the opening of the first bud. During this period, fertilizing is combined with watering. Liquid mineral formulations with a short duration of action, such as Agricola, are suitable. The drug is used according to the instructions.
You can also mix 20 g of phosphorus and 15 g of potassium, embed them in the soil near the shrub. Such fertilization will prolong the flowering period.
As soon as the budding process begins to decline, the peonies are fed with bone meal.
Bone meal powder is embedded in the soil, dug up it
1 m2 300 g of substance is required.
Rules for feeding peonies in spring for flowering
Effectively combine watering with top dressing. If spring and summer are rainy, it is not recommended to additionally moisturize the culture. The introduction of mineral compositions during drought is reduced, and with high humidity, it is increased.
To strengthen peonies, stimulate flowering, root and foliar dressings are used.
Spraying shrubs with nutrient solutions is no less effective than watering with their addition. 40 g of urea are dissolved in 10 liters of water. Peonies are treated with this solution in spring, as soon as the ground part of the plant begins to germinate.
Re-spraying is carried out after 15 days.
You can use ready-made solutions for foliar dressing, for example, the drug "Ideal". It is diluted in 10 liters of water, add 1 tbsp. l. crushed laundry soap. Such a solution will remain on the shoots and leaves of the plant for a long time, stimulating its growth.
Mineral root dressing begins in early March. Phosphorus-potassium mixtures with a low nitrogen content are suitable. They are scattered around the bush, initially the soil should be moistened. This procedure is repeated twice - in early May and early June.
Mineral fertilizers can be replaced with organics. In the spring, the following composition is effective: fresh mullein (1 part) is diluted with water (10 parts), 1 part of chicken manure is added, the mixture is infused for 1.5 weeks. Application: at a distance of 25 cm from the center of the shrub around the circumference, dig a shallow ditch, pour a nutritious infusion into it.
This top dressing is applied 1 time, in the spring, during the budding period. This is the middle or end of May.
Conclusion
There are many ways to feed peonies in spring for lush bloom. For the procedure, organics and mineral complexes are used. They can be applied directly under the root or sprayed on plants. Fertilized on time, the culture responds with lush and long flowering.
