- Winter is the perfect time to plan spring gardening, especially for hydrangeas.
- Take care to cover the plants and watch out for snow that may damage the shoots.
- Discover home ways to fertilize hydrangeas that will ensure their lush flowering.
- Check out how to prepare conditioner from orange peels and coffee grounds to bring hydrangeas to life!
Winter covered Poland with ice and snow. Similarly, in the next few days of less frost, forecasters forecast significant temperature drops again. This weather is not conducive to visits to the garden and preparing plants for the coming spring. However, it is worth planning maintenance work now to start the growing season with the first days of spring. In the case of garden hydrangeas, check the covers regularly in winter and correct them if necessary. Also monitor the amount of snow accumulating on the bushes. A large and thick snow cap may break hydrangea shoots. . Start dismantling them when there are no more heavy frosts in the weather forecast. Spring weather is capricious and sometimes protective frames need to be reinstalled when temperatures suddenly drop. Remember, however, not to place agrotextiles on bushes unnecessarily. It is worth doing this early enough so that the plants can prepare for the growing season and benefit from sunlight and water.
Start collecting in winter and scatter it around the hydrangeas in spring. This conditioner makes hydrangeas start flowering faster
Homemade conditioners will work great for the first season. You can start preparing some of them now. Thanks to this, you will have ready fertilizer at the beginning of the growing season. Orange peels are great for quickly stimulating hydrangeas in early spring. Throughout the winter, collect them and dry them in the oven. Just put the chopped orange peels in an oven preheated to 130 degrees Celsius for 1.5 hours. Place the dried peels in a glass jar. When spring comes, thoroughly grind the dried orange peels into a powder and sprinkle it around the hydrangea roots. To make the fertilizer more effective, you can mix it with garden soil. Orange peels will gently acidify the soil and stimulate better growth and flowering of hydrangeas. Additionally, they will act as a deterrent to common pests, including aphids.
How to fertilize hydrangeas in early spring?
In early spring, it is recommended to fertilize hydrangeas with multi-component fertilizers with nitrogen. This ingredient is responsible for flowering and leaf growth. According to the gardener’s calendar, plants are fertilized with nitrogen until the end of summer/beginning of autumn. Subsequent stimulation of plants with nitrogen may prevent the bushes and flowers from going dormant and preparing for winter.
Nitrogen in natural fertilizers occurs mainly in coffee grounds. This is the best spring conditioner for hydrangeas. Prepare about 5 tablespoons of clean coffee grounds. The best are Turkish coffee grounds and those left on the paper filter in a drip coffee machine. However, grounds from an espresso machine or decaffeinated coffee grounds will not work. Pour about 5 tablespoons of coffee grounds with water and mix. Set aside for some time to allow the grounds to swell. After this time, stir again. Hydrangea conditioner is ready. Water your hydrangeas with it once every two weeks. Coffee grounds will make your hydrangea bloom luxuriantly and please your eyes all summer long.
