During the autumn you can get a decay in the garden. It is suitable for virtually every garden, its cultivation is not difficult, and can last long. See how to grow heather.
Summer is over and comes a somewhat sad period of autumn. Summer flowers have already saved for winter sleep, and you can look forward to them again in a year. But the autumn garden can be very sad. Fortunately, you can revive it, for example, by heather. It is suitable for virtually every garden and is not maintenance -intensive. However, you need to be careful about the soil you drop it.
The video in which Magda Švarcová from the gardening of Flos advises how you should take good care of the heather here:
How to grow heather
The heather is a suitable plant for every autumn garden. If you want to add a little color to the autumn garden, flowering heathers are available, but if you are not fans of flowers, you can get shaking shaking. Flowering heathers have flowers mostly red, pink or violet. Non -blooming species are green, silver or yellow, so everyone can choose according to their taste. “They are both flowering and non -flowering,” says Magda Švarcová from the gardening of Flos.
In terms of heather growing, you have more options. You can plant them in the flowerbed or in the box. If you plant heather in the flowerbed, find them a sunny place that is well protected from the wind. You need to be really careful when picking a habitatsince heather hates transplanting. The place you plant it will be the final habitat.
For heathers, it is necessary to keep in mind that they are sour plantsso it is the absolute foundation to be doing well. If you shake it, you need to buy an acidic substrate that contains peat. “If you do not plant it directly into the soil, but plant it in the box, then it is important to have a substrate for acidic plants,” Svarcová advises. As far as planted in the box is concerned, it is also important that you do not forget to place a drainage layer to ensure the drainage of excess water.
Heather care
It is important to pay attention to the watering. It is ideal watered slightly and regularly. Make sure the soil is neither dry nor waterlogged. As soon as the heather has dried, you will not get it. With fertilization, however, you do not have to worry about a heavy head, as the nutrients are not difficult.
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The heather in the box will be needed during the winter to protect with a non -woven fabric so that the roots do not freeze. If you have heather in the flower bed, definitely apply mulch as a winter protection. This can be, for example, twigs, leaves or bark. Plants would you like this way winterize before the first frosts. Also, be careful not to have any weeds in the flower bed that could struggle with the heather for nutrients. This, especially in winter, could kill the plant.
