Skillful watering, but also fertilization is important. Instead of chemical, ready -made nutrients from garden stores, you can use a homemade conditioner made of kitchen waste. Instead of throwing apple peels, they can be used to fertilize balcony flowers.
Waking geraniums after winter
Thermophilic geraniums can successfully survive the winter. Beautiful balcony flowers will enjoy our eyes for several seasons if we provide them with the right conditions. Storing geranium in winter in a warmer place we start before the first frosts. When the nights become cooler and the temperature drops to the zero. If the flowers grow in pots, all you have to do is move them to a bright room with a temperature of 5 to 10 Celsius. Geraniums that grow at discounts must be dug and put in a pot filled with drainage, and then cover with fresh soil. We avoid abundant watering when wintering geraniums. The soil should be slightly moist, almost dry. If geraniums winter in a cool room, just water them once every three weeks. The stems should be strong and green throughout the winter. When wintering geraniums, we care about soil humidity, but we do not fertilize flowers. In mid -January, we start to wake up plants from winter sleep (when we do it later, you have to reckon with the fact that geraniums will bloom later). If we want them to bloom beautifully in spring, let us move the flowers to a warmer room or turn up the temperature in the place where they are. The best is about 15 degrees C. At the same time, we can also increase the watering frequency. In March, it is worth fertilizing geraniums and cutting the tips of the shoots. Thanks to this, the plant will spread and bloom abundantly. In May, we can overdo the flowers to larger pots and take it outside.
How to water geraniums in March? Natural geranium fertilizer
To strengthen geraniums after winter and mobilize them to flowering, you can water them with apple cuticles. Peelings are a valuable source of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, i.e. ingredients necessary for flowering plants. Such a conditioner is easy to do. People with two apples and half a liter of water are enough. Put the skin in a jar, pour it, lightly cover and set aside in shaded places for 3-4 days. After this time, strain the fertilizer. Throw the peels, dilute the conditioner with water in a 1: 1 ratio. We water the soil around geraniums once a week with such a mixture.
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