Planting And Care Of Ornamental Shrubs
All ornamental shrubs and fruit plants – perennial forms: growing in the same place for many years and even decades. This should be considered when selecting a site for landing and avoid possible errors which is sometimes difficult to fix. Author shares his opinions and ideas on the topic at hand. Light-loving forms should not be planted in shaded areas, and semi-shade – in open, sunny. Most of the ornamental shrubs taxing on soils. However, if we want to planted plants grew well and decorated area, they should be planted in well-prepared, moderately loose, tucked organic and mineral fertilizers soil. Plants can be planted in spring and autumn.
Autumn planting lead from the beginning to the end of leaf fall, spring – right after the snow melts and before buds. In the northern areas better take root plants, planted in the spring (around April 20 to May 15), since they do not fall planting time to take root and to suffer from frost in winter. In the southern and southwestern areas of non-chernozem zone best results are obtained when the autumn planting (September 20 to October 15), but not in the frozen earth. For the autumn planting pits dug in late summer for spring – autumn of the previous year. Landing pits for shrubs should have a diameter of 0.6 m, depth 0,6 m. The walls of the wells do strictly steep, they can not be narrowed down, because it reduces the amount of backfill fertile soil and degrades the environment for the development of the first roots. Bottom of the pit loosened to a depth of not less than 10 cm a few days ventilated landing pit filled with soil.