Hello. Our names are Oleg and Oksana, and about 20 years ago we bought a private house near Krasnodar. From that moment on, we just got sick of our personal plot, especially with flowers, of which we have a lot here and they bloom simply luxuriously: in summer and spring, our site looks like paradise.
These flowers will be most grateful to nitrogen-potassium fertilizers. It is best to start fertilizing in the third year of the life of peonies, when their active flowering begins. You need to feed them three times for the whole season:
- The first feeding is done when the snow melts or immediately after it has melted. For one bush, we need from 10 to 20 g of potassium and from 10 to 15 g of nitrogen. They are introduced after active watering or rain, but not in dry soil;
- Next time we feed during budding. The dosages of nitrogen and potassium per bush do not change, but we add 15-20 grams of phosphorus;
- We carry out the third top dressing in half a month after they have faded and buds have begun to be laid. Now we need only phosphorus and potassium in the same dosages as before.
It is very important to ensure that peonies do not overfeed, because with an excess of, for example, nitrogen, bud formation may decrease and green mass may grow. Also, with an excess of fertilizers, the resistance of peonies to various diseases decreases.
And before planting, you can feed the roots of flowers with a clay mash that will help them take root. It is made from 10 liters of water, 5 kg of clay, heteroauxin (two tablets), and blue vitriol(60 g). You can also add wood ash (half a kilogram). It is enough to dip the roots into this mixture and dry them. Then you can plant.
But you can add compost, rotted manure and peat plus topsoil to the planting pit.
Ash or bone meal (300 grams) or superphosphate (up to 200g) is also added to the mixture. You can reduce the acidity of the soil with the help of slaked lime (up to 400 g). Don't forget to crush the lime.
Do-it-yourself fertilizers for peonies
These luxurious flowers will be very grateful for organic top dressing, which you can do on your own.
To prepare such a remedy, you need either mullein or bird droppings.
Fresh cow manure for a large barrel of water needs about a bucket, which we breed in five buckets of water. Bird droppings should be diluted into 25 buckets. We put it in the sun and let it wander for up to half a month (minimum 10 days).
After a couple of weeks, when everything has fermented, we add superphosphate (from 200 g to 300) and half a kilogram of wood ash.
Before feeding, we dilute the manure solution with two parts of water, with bird droppings - three parts.
Shop fertilizers
There are many fertilizers and dressings for flowers, but not every one is suitable for peonies. It is worth stopping at two store options.
Kemira
This fertilizer is mineral and all its elements are contained here in the cheilate form. This means that peonies assimilate Kemira without additional processing by soil microorganisms.
The tool is used three times for the whole season. In March and after the peonies have faded (after about seven days), a remedy such as Kemira-universal will be appropriate.
After watering the flowers, pour a handful of funds under each bush. Don't forget to add fertilizer to the soil. The next top dressing is carried out with the help of Kemira-combi.
And the second top dressing is carried out with Kemira-Combi fertilizer. It dissolves quite quickly and goes directly to the root system of flowers. Just sprinkle a handful of the product under each bush and water generously.
Baikal EM-1
This fertilizer is organic and microbiological. It is prepared on the basis of EM technologies. Live microorganisms present in the product increase the fertility of the earth for peonies and improve its structures.
Baikal M can be added to compost, or you can mulch the ground with it in autumn. Mulch should have a thickness of 7 cm to 10.
If the peony does not bloom
Here exist as folk ways stimulation of flowering, and quite scientific. So, our neighbors bury under the bushes rotten fish. In fact, the secret is that it is ordinary. Instead of fish, you can just add saltpeter.
You can also try to treat your flowers with potassium permanganate in the spring (the solution can be strong), when budding with manure, and in the fall just cover with compost. Sometimes potassium sulphate is also used to stimulate flowering.
There is another option to stimulate flowering. In autumn (closer to October) we pour potassium chloride and add wood ash (do not forget to dry). We put a tablespoon of such ash under each peony bush in October.
In the spring we water the peony with slurry, by May we switch to potash fertilizers. They need to be alternated, using either potassium nitrate, or potassium sulfate, or potassium permanganate. You can also spray with superphosphate.
Foliar top dressing
It is done throughout the summer (and spring) season and consists in the fact that you spray the leaves of flowers. You can also water, but the watering can should have a fine sieve. For this, for example, a tool such as Ideal is suitable.
Dissolve according to the instructions and add to the solution washing powder in a small amount (you can use laundry soap): for 10 liters of solution they need about a tablespoon. The soap will help hold the product on the leaves and flowers.
Also, foliar top dressing can be carried out in three stages: at the first, when the ground parts of the bushes only germinate, we pour it with a solution of urea: it needs 50 g per 10 liters of water. At the second top dressing (after 30 days), add a microfertilizer tablet to the same solution.
The third time, when it fades, we water only with a solution with two tablets of micronutrient fertilizers. It is better to carry out such a procedure in the evening or on a cloudy day.
This article will take a detailed look at vegetative reproduction pions, their brief description is given. We will make the following recommendations:
- when can peonies be transplanted;
- how to transplant peonies;
- how to feed peonies;
- how to get rid of ants on peonies;
Why don't peonies bloom?
- how to use peonies in landscape design.
The plant is named after the doctor Pean (or Peon), the legendary disciple of the god of healing Aesculapius, who treated the gods. According to legend, Pean cured Hades himself, who, in gratitude after death, turned him into a flower resembling a rose.
Botanical description
Peony (Paeonia) is herbaceous plant or deciduous shrub (tree peony). In modern classifications, this species is the only representative of the Peony family. area natural habitat- subtropics of Eurasia and North America. Within the framework of this article, we will consider only herbaceous species, leaving tree species for more detailed consideration separately.
Peony is a plant with a powerful rhizome, thick cone-shaped roots. The leaves are trifoliate or unpaired pinnately divided, green or gray, attached to several stems up to 1 meter high. The flowers are large, fragrant, up to 25 cm in diameter, bright or pastel colors - white, yellow, cream, all shades of pink and red, sometimes with darker spots at the base. The fruits are a complex multi-leaf, in some varieties they are very decorative, the seeds are large, shiny, black or brown. Blooms in spring or early summer.
Brief description of species
Now there are about 5000 varieties herbaceous peonies, and this figure is constantly growing, since the interest of breeders in this plant has not weakened for many centuries, they are usually classified according to the shape of the flower, today there are seven groups.
- Non-double - with large flowers arranged in one or two rows, numerous stamens located inside the flower.
- Semi-double - large flowers, usually with seven rows of petals, the stamens are located either among the petals or inside the flower.
Peony simple, non-double 
anemone peony 
double peony 
Peony semi-double
- Terry - bomb-shaped, spherical, hemispherical - depending on the shape of the flower when fully opened.
- Japanese - non-double or semi-double, forming a pompom of modified stamens in the center of the flower.
- Anemone - transitional from Japanese to terry. Two rows of wide round petals border a ball of shorter, narrower central petals.
- Rose-like - look like a very large rose.
- Crowned - consist of three tiers - the upper and lower of large wide petals, the middle one - of small, narrow ones. Moreover, the middle row in the early stages of flowering usually differs in color from the other two.
One of the most popular is the narrow-leaved peony - an early flowering species with thin leaves and numerous medium-sized red flowers of extraordinary beauty.
Tree peony bushes, large carved leaves and delicate flowers of which are very decorative, can become wonderful ...
Landing
Choosing the right place
Peony is very durable - in one place it can grow and bloom for decades. Before transplanting peonies, you must choose the right place for landing.
The landing site should be sunny, protected from the wind. In partial shade and in places where the sun is only 5-6 hours a day, they will also bloom, but not as plentifully as we would like, the flowers will be smaller, and the color will be paler.
Most of all, peonies love loamy, well-drained soils. In no case do not plant them in the lowlands. An adult plant will endure frost, drought, but even a short-term stagnation of water at the roots for it is a direct path to death.
Site preparation
The soil for peonies must be prepared at least a week or two before planting. AT clay soil add low-lying peat (high-moor peat has an acidic reaction, which is unacceptable), humus and sand, into sandy - low-lying peat, sand and clay. Deacidify acidic soil with lime (2 cups per bucket of water) or dolmite flour.
Dig planting pits about 60x60x60 cm, place drainage from crushed stone, gravel or broken red brick at the bottom of the pit, cover with coarse sand, top with prepared soil mixture, pour abundantly. The earth will sag, and it will be possible to plant delenki to the required depth.
Features of the process of disembarkation and transplantation
The best time for planting and transplanting is September-October. Planting peonies in the spring is not recommended.
Good planting material – 1-2 summer plant, or a delenka with 3-4 buds and a piece of rhizome. When planting, properly deepen the kidneys. They should be located approximately 3-5 cm below the soil level. If the buds are located deep, the plant develops well, but there will be no flowering. winter frosts have the property of pushing the rhizome out of the soil, it can freeze. Therefore too shallow landing may damage the plant.
After planting, it is necessary to carefully crush the ground around, water abundantly.
Peonies are rarely transplanted. But perhaps the old plant began to bloom worse, or you needed planting material, or the design of the place where the bush stands does not provide so large plant- then you need to sit down.
Any transplant, except for sanitary (when we save an incorrectly planted or diseased young plant) necessarily involves the division of the bush. This is the simplest and reliable way breeding. How to dig and divide a bush is described in detail in the section "Reproduction by dividing a bush" below.
spring planting
autumn is the best solution. In the spring, this plant has an active growth of green mass to the detriment of root development. But when planting, the main thing is to maximize the growth of the root system as much as possible. It is wrong to remove the leaves so that they do not interfere with the development of the roots - the plant will die, and very quickly. So spring is the time when you should not transplant peonies.
But it happens that the plant overwintered badly and may die, or a new variety was bought at the exhibition. The question arises - what to do next? In such cases, planting peonies in the spring is a must. It is best to start transplanting peonies in the spring to another place, as soon as the snow has melted and the earth has thawed, before the buds germinate.
Help us a lot with spring planting root-forming preparations, such as Kornevin or Heteroauxin, which are added to the ground or diluted in water.
reproduction
seed propagation
During seed propagation, varietal characteristics are usually not transmitted. In addition, a plant grown from seeds will bloom no earlier than in 4-5 years (in tree-like varieties - even later).
Let's leave seed propagation breeders.
Vegetative propagation
Vegetative propagation occurs by dividing the bush. This is a simple, reliable way, accessible even to a novice gardener. It allows you to save the varietal characteristics of the plant and performed correctly, in right time always gives excellent results.
Carefully dig out the bush. If it is old, overgrown, first dig it in a circle, stepping back from the rhizome 20 cm, then loosen the plant with a pitchfork, pull it out of the ground. Carefully clean, rinse, trim the leaves and flower stalks, let them lie down in the open air for a couple of hours so that the root wilts a little and becomes less fragile.
Before planting peonies, remove any old, rotten, or disease-looking parts of the roots and rhizomes. The roots must be cut so that their length does not exceed 15 cm. Do not make too small or large divisions. To get a good, healthy plant, leave a piece of rhizome with 3-4 well-developed eyes and a few roots. Be sure to sprinkle the cut points with ash or crushed activated charcoal. Plant as described above.
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Care
Watering- peonies do not tolerate stagnant water at the roots. They need to be watered rarely, but in large quantities. One adult plant needs 2-3 buckets of water. Between waterings, we loosen the soil (it is also called dry irrigation). Peony especially needs moisture in the spring at the beginning of the growing season and in August, when buds are laid for flowering next year.
top dressing- for good development and full flowering, the plant must be regularly fertilized. Wait for the growing season to begin before feeding the peonies in the spring - and in the spring, any nitrogen-containing fertilizer is applied to the soil. During the laying of buds and a week or two after the end of flowering, the plant must be given a complete mineral fertilizer for flowering plants. Autumn top dressing pions - a single application of phosphorus-potassium fertilizer - it will allow the plant to winter better, it is better to bloom next year.
seasonal care
Caring for peonies in the spring - top dressing, watering, regular loosening, if necessary - treatments for pests and diseases. Remove faded flowers throughout the period when peonies bloom.
Continue sanitizing during the summer. Care for peonies after flowering - removal of peduncles, top dressing. If the weather is right, you can start transplanting.
In autumn, peonies are planted and transplanted, sanitization continues. After the first frost, cut the foliage to the ground, remove it from the site. If you planted or transplanted peonies this year, care must include mulching. It is also required during severe or little snowy winters.
Why don't peonies bloom?
- Plants transplanted in spring or last year do not bloom. Remember that there will never be flowering in the year of planting. It will not bloom the next year if the planted delenka was too small. Just wait.
- Old bushes do not bloom. It's time to plant the plant.
- No flowering in low light. Replant the plant.
- Overflow. Stop pouring. If the foliage has lost its elasticity, looks bad, dig up the plant, inspect the root. If necessary, clean it, soak for 1-2 hours in the Previcur solution. If the landing site is to blame and water constantly accumulates there, transplant or arrange drainage.
- Wrong planting depth. You do not need to deepen the peony much, plant the plant correctly.
- The plant is not seated, but bought (donated). Give him one more year to adapt and build up the root system, and only then sound the alarm.
Proper planting is the key to lush, long flowering (how to do this is described above).
Peony angustifolia 
Peony angustifolia
Peony narrow-leaved - planting and care in open field no different from other herbaceous peonies.
Pests and diseases
Peony diseases can be caused by overflows, frequent rains, dense planting, excess nitrogen.
Most often, peonies suffer from gray rot. Here, treatment and prevention consist in treating the plant and the ground under it with copper-containing preparations. It is necessary to cut out the parts of the plant affected by rot with a sterile tool, remove them from the site.
Prevention: treat the plant with copper before flowering - in early spring and when the first buds appear, and twice with an interval of 2 weeks after the peonies have faded.
Less commonly affected powdery mildew and rust. Buy any drug for these diseases. If you have carried out preventive treatments with copper-containing preparations and taken into account all our recommendations on how to care for peonies, the plant should not hurt.
Ants on peonies are a big problem. They not only breed aphids, but they themselves like to feast on nectar, which is secreted by an unopened peony bud.
Ants on peonies
Ants can "work" on flower buds so that they do not open at all. Before turning to chemistry, try spreading peeled and crushed pieces of onion or garlic cloves on the ground around the roots. If it doesn't help, there is. big choice ant control agents.
Viruses are a huge problem. How to deal with them is unknown. A heavily affected plant is simply destroyed.
The most resistant to diseases is the narrow-leaved peony.
Peonies in landscape design
Peony is a favorite flower of landscape designers.
He is good in solitary (single focal) and in group plantings. Can be used in any flower beds, goes well with other plants. beautiful blooming peonies in the garden, faded, due to the fact that the leaves of the peony are very decorative, will be a great backdrop for other flowering plants.
Perfectly combined with roses, delphiniums, phlox. They are especially good against the background of junipers. The narrow-leaved peony is used in rock gardens, in combination with cereals and eremurus. The neighborhood of yellow with purple counterparts looks very impressive.
cut peonies
Peonies stand in a vase for a long time, fragrant and pleasing to the eye. Their magnificent beauty will not leave anyone indifferent.
For cutting, choose varieties with large fragrant buds. beautiful shape. Peonies will give especially large flowers if only one bud is left on the stem, while pinching the rest as soon as they become the size of a pea. It is necessary to cut flowers early in the morning half-blown or buds.
In order for the plant to bloom well the next year, we cut off no more than half of the buds from the bush.
Peony settles in our gardens for a long time - not every flower is so durable. Growing a beautiful and healthy bush is simple, make a minimum of effort - and it will delight you every day.
Remember - the fashion for peonies has always been and always will be. It's just that sometimes this unusual flower is pushed a little off the pedestal by other flowers. But who remembers their names today?
Types of dressings
Particularly strongly indicated flowers need nitrogen-containing compounds, but not in the last place for them are such useful substances as potassium and.
In addition, if the lush flowering of your “wards” is really important, then you should stock up on fertilizers based on magnesium, iron, boron, zinc and copper, which plants also need, albeit in smaller doses. All of these micronutrients can be supplied in two main ways: root and non-root.
Foliar
Foliar top dressing is carried out in relation to many plants, but in the case of peonies, it is also mandatory because thanks to this procedure, you can observe the lush flowering of the plant in the summer season. Young and adult bushes like to take foliar nutrient formulations every month, and what exactly to feed the flowers - gardeners decide on their own.
For example, a plant responds well to watering from a watering can (it is advisable to install a special strainer on the spout) with a solution of ready-made mineral fertilizer (Ideal is a good example of such compounds), and so that it adheres more firmly to the leaves, to ready mix add a small part of ordinary laundry soap or laundry detergent (one large spoon is enough for a ten-liter bucket of water). 
The scheme for using foliar fertilizers is as follows:
Important! Many compositions can be applied to the bush from a spray gun, however, when using soap compounds for better “stickiness”, peonies can be sprayed with a long-haired brush.
Root
Along with using foliar feeding often used and the root method of fertilization. As in the previous case, nutrient formulations should be used several times over the entire growing season: in early spring (already in early March), a good fertilizer for peonies will be mineral mixtures just scattered under the bush.
Together with melt water, they will gradually soak into the soil and very soon they will get to the roots, nourishing the entire plant from the inside. With the advent of summer, two more such fertilizers are expected, and, as in the first case, dry mixtures simply crumble under the peonies, and then watered well.
Feeding calendar
The effectiveness of any top dressing when caring for peonies depends not only on what kind of composition is used for fertilizer, but also on the time it is applied to the soil or plants. So, some preparations are more appropriate to use in the spring, while others are suitable only for autumn processing, since in different period In its growth and development, the plant needs different micronutrients.
First
For the first fertilization of pions, the foliar method is usually used, immediately after the snow melts. At this time, nitrogen-potassium fertilizers at the rate of 20-30 g of the mixture per bush will be especially important for flowers.
Important! When using the composition, try not to get it on the flowers and leaves of the plant, as chemical burns may appear on them, which will significantly reduce decorative look peony bush.
Second
14-21 days after using the first nutritional formulation to feed the peony bushes (about one to two weeks before the plant blooms), a second top dressing can be carried out using liquid nutrients for this purpose.
To 10 liters of real cow manure, add 20-25 g of potash fertilizers and twice as much phosphate fertilizers, pouring about 2-3 liters of the finished mixture under each bush.
Third
The third time nutrient formulations are applied to the soil after the plant has flowered. The following solution is perfect for the role of a nutrient mixture: a ten-liter bucket of infused manure should have 10-15 g of potassium sulfate and about 30 g of superphosphate, and after mixing them, the finished solution is poured under a bush. The specified amount of liquid will be enough for 1 m² of plantings. 
What to feed: fertilizer options
We found out exactly when it is worth fertilizing peonies, it remains to figure out how to water the flowers for their lush and long flowering. First of all, it should be noted that everything is good in moderation, therefore, both in spring and at other times, all formulations used for feeding should be used in accordance with the recommendations given and in the correct dosages.
Otherwise, an excessive amount of, for example, nitrogen will lead to the growth of the leaf part to the detriment of flowering.
Did you know? In ancient times, according to the beliefs of the people of Greece, peonies were able to cure more than twenty different ailments, which is why these bushes could be found near any monastery. As for the modern hybrid forms of this plant, they came to Europe only in the 6th century and were used for a long time in the fight against epilepsy.
organic
For active growth and good flowering of peonies, it is necessary to take care of their fertilizer in the fall, providing the soil and rhizome with a sufficient amount of micronutrients. Organic compounds are perfect for these purposes, since they contain a wide variety of components necessary for the plant.
Usually for autumn organic top dressing use compost, manure or by simply laying them on the ground under a bush. Gradually rotting, all the nutritional components come out of them in a dosed manner, which eventually descend closer and closer to the root system of peonies. 
In addition, such organic matter also performs another important function: it does not allow the earth to freeze, since the decomposition of manure occurs with the release of heat, needed by plants during particularly harsh winters.
With the onset of the first stable frosts, plant shoots may freeze slightly, after which they are cut flush with the soil (so that the stumps are invisible). After completing this procedure, you can additionally mulch the ground using humus, compost and fallen leaves.
To heighten the effect, you can add wood ash (300 g), bone meal (200 g) or both substances at the same time under a layer of mulch. It is enough to scatter all this in an even layer around the bush and dig a little.
This approach to complex application nutrients in autumn, it will help prepare the peony for lush flowering next year, especially if reinforced positive effect the right fertilizers in spring time.
If we are talking about plants that have been in the same place for quite a long time without a transplant, then you can use ready-made organic fertilizer called "Baikal EM-1", with the presence of living microorganisms in its composition.
The latter have a good effect on the structure of the soil and increase its fertility, but before spring feeding with the indicated preparation, it must be mixed with autumn compost, and then used as mulch. The thickness of such a "fertilizing" layer should not exceed 7-10 cm.
No less popular and so-called « folk recipes» creating organic compounds. So, ordinary bread can provide lush flowering for your peonies, and all you need is to soak half a loaf in sweet water at night (two tablespoons of sugar are enough for a glass of water), and in the morning strain the resulting mixture, and pour the peonies that have appeared from the ground with the indicated solution.
Another simple organic fertilizer recipe for specified plants based on the use of chicken manure (0.5 l per 10 l of water), however, it must be well insisted for 14 days. In the future, the finished composition is additionally diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 3, and for better efficiency, a handful of ash is added to it.
mineral
Mineral top dressings include a wide variety of compositions, which today are easy to find in specialized stores. For example, a well-known representative of this group is the drug "Kemira" used three times per season.
With the onset of spring (before flowering), a more suitable composition would be "Kemira-Universal", and it is also used 7 days after the end of flowering plants. This preparation is quite simple to use: having made a small depression under the bush, a small handful of the indicated composition is poured into it and sprinkled with soil on top.
For the second top dressing is also well suited and "Kemira-Combi", and this time you can not dig it in. Just pour the contents of the package on the ground under the peonies and pour generously on top. This composition dissolves quickly enough, so it will soon reach the root system of the plant. 
For foliar fertilizer, ready-made complex preparations are also well suited (for example, the aforementioned "Ideal"), most of which must first be dissolved in water in accordance with the instructions.
Another useful composition with a whole range of trace elements is a drug that can increase the strength of peony tissues and optimize the own protective forces of flowers. 
By improving the immunity of the plant, the likelihood of its disease is reduced and growth is improved, which is why the effect of the drug is often compared with the effect. To prepare a ready-made solution for treating bushes, you need to mix 2-3 ml of the drug with 1 liter of water.
In a word, there are many options for preparations for mineral and organic dressings, however, much in this matter depends on the characteristics of the growth of the plant, the climatic region and the personal preferences of the gardener.
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What you need to feed peonies in the spring for lush flowering so that in the summer in the garden they enchant all visitors to the dacha? How to properly feed them during the development period? Experienced gardeners give their recommendations on how to do it productively and what formulations to use.
Peonies grow actively and bloom profusely in the same area. But for this, flowers need competent care. Starting from the 3rd year of flowering, they need not only timely watering and loosening, but also fertilization:
Important: when feeding, the dosage of drugs should be carefully observed. If there is too much nitrogen, the green mass grows, and budding is delayed.
What fertilizers feed peonies
Several very effective modern means are known.
Kemira - mineral fertilizer
The composition is used three times per season. In early spring and 7 days after flowering, Kemira-universal is used. First, each plant is watered, and then a handful of fertilizer is poured under it and buried in the ground. The composition immediately dissolves in water and penetrates into the roots of the flower.
The second top dressing can be done with Kemira-Combi, which does not have to be added dropwise. The packaging is simply poured into the garden under the bushes and watered. It is a fast-dissolving preparation that reaches the plant roots almost immediately.
All components of Kemira have a chelate form, due to which they are absorbed by plants without additional treatment by soil microorganisms.
Another useful tool, containing many trace elements, is called "Siliplant". It helps to increase the strength of plant tissues and its adaptation to external conditions.
Baikal EM-1 - organic fertilizer
Microbiological preparation based on EM technology. It contains living microorganisms that improve the composition and fertility of the soil. Baikal EM-1 is placed in compost, which is used to mulch mature plants in the fall. Mulch layer 7-10 cm.
Any organic matter helps to develop flower shoots and numerous buds. As a fertilizer, mullein diluted in water in a ratio of 1:10 and bird droppings - 1:15 are often applied. With this composition, the plants are carefully watered under the root, without affecting the basal neck. It is advisable to make small holes around the bush and pour the drug into them. Such top dressing is carried out once a season when budding is in progress.
foliar top dressing
Bushes, regardless of age, are fertilized once a month by the foliar method: the bushes are sprayed with a solution of the combined mineral composition. For example, you can use the drug Ideal, the rate of use of which is recorded in the annotation.
Important: so that the fertilizer lasts longer on the leaves, 1 tablespoon of laundry detergent or laundry soap per 10 liters is placed in it. composition.
There is another option for foliar feeding. The first time it is carried out after the formation of the ground part of the plant: a solution of urea is made 50 g per 10 liters. water. The second time - in a month: microfertilizer tablets are placed in diluted urea, 1 piece per 10 liters. solution. The third treatment is carried out only with a composition of 2 tablets per 10 liters. water.
To strengthen the roots, apply Heteroauxin, 2 tablets per bucket of water. In order to actively grow shoots, peonies are fed with sodium humate, 5 g per piece, scattering it into small furrows near the flower.
Most preparations are sprayed onto the bush with a spray gun, but in order for the soapy substances to “stick” better, you can process the flowers with a brush.
What experienced gardeners say
“I am not an expert on peonies, so they did not want to bloom with me at all. Small buds were constantly formed, which never became with flowers. Now it became clear to me what to do: plants need not only drainage and a little deepening, but also good fertilizer. For two seasons I have already been feeding peonies with Jerusalem artichoke: I cut the stems and pour them on a bush. I do this all the time in the spring. I want to take a picture of my old bush, which for many years gave 2-3 flowers a year. And now it's full of buds. Also, young specimens of the variety Sarah Bernhardt and Dresden Peak form lush flowers. I don’t believe in chance, it’s all about fertilizer” (Larisa, Moscow).
Peonies Sarah Bernhardt “I read that peonies really like ash. I purchased my first flower, a Felix Kruss peony, from the hands of one experienced florist. He explained to me at what level to deepen, and how to feed the plant with organic matter. My flower is already 3 years old, it overwintered well, in the summer I cut the buds, 5 appeared next season big flowers, and now there are 11 of them. I fertilized them, as I was recommended, with mullein. Peonies are unpretentious flowers and respond well to proper care ”(Annet, Tver).
Folk dressing recipes
yeast
Mineral supplements can be replaced with yeast infusion containing a large number of useful substances. Due to it, the quality of the soil is improved and the bushes are provided with the necessary components. Yeast top dressing of peonies may be the first. Fertilizer is done like this: in 10 liters. water is diluted with 100 g of yeast and sugar to activate the composition. One tablespoon of wood ash is also put there. The drug is insisted for 2-3 hours, and then peonies are watered.
bread
Black bread, especially "Borodinsky" is also rich in useful substances. It is cut into small pieces, dried a little, and then dipped in water. At 10 l. water put the bread so that the liquid completely covers it. From above, everyone is pressed down with a vessel and a load is placed as a press. The product ferments for 7 days. Peonies are fed only with a diluted infusion of bread, in a ratio of 1: 1.
ammonia
A popular remedy among the people that must be dosed correctly, otherwise the green mass will grow, taking food from flowers and fruits. The substance is used only diluted: 25 ml. for 10 l. water. Still in case poor growth pions use emergency watering: 1 tablespoon of water accounts for the same amount of 25% ammonia.
Also used in the manufacture of fertilizers. eggshell, banana peel, potato peelings, yeast, nettle, whey, onion peel.
There is another simple way to make organic fertilizer: dissolve 0.5 l. chicken manure in 10 l. water and insist 2 weeks. The prepared product is additionally diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 3, and for a stronger effect, a handful of ash is placed there.
There are enough mineral and organic products for feeding peonies, and which one to choose depends on the place where the flowers grow, the climate and the opinion of the grower himself. ornamental plants will duly thank the owners of the plots for proper nutrition juicy bright flowers.
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Luxurious flowering of peonies is impossible without their timely top dressing. The most relevant are spring top dressing. It is they who are responsible for the number of buds laid and for their size.
Preparing peonies for spring feeding
In the spring, as soon as the snow melts, the trunk circle of peonies must be freed from dry leaves and other debris.
- Stepping back 30-40 from the center of the bush, you need to slightly loosen the ground.
- Next, you should monitor the soil moisture and if it dries too quickly after the snow melts, water the peonies once every 7-10 days.
- At the same time, you need to make sure that the earth is just wet, and does not turn into a swamp.
- Peonies really do not like stagnant water and can die if waterlogged.
What spring dressings are needed for peonies
Peonies respond gratefully to both mineral and organic fertilizers. Minerals are sold in any garden shop, and each summer resident makes organic independently. Some gardeners mix organic and mineral complexes and this is also quite acceptable.
In addition to top dressing at the root, peonies also like top dressing on the leaf, when the bushes are sprayed with a healing solution from above.
Scheme of spring root dressing of peonies
First dressing
It is carried out at the moment when red sprouts of peonies have already appeared from the ground and they have grown to a height of 2-3 cm. This usually happens in late April or early May.
- At this time, cow or horse dung necessarily well rotted.
- A little nitrophoska or any complex fertilizer for garden flowers is added to the manure.
- For 1 kg of manure, 100 g of store fertilizer is taken.
- This mixed fertilizer for an average peony bush requires 300 grams (1 liter can).
- The fertilizer mixes well with the top layer of earth under the peony.
- Further, the place of feeding is mulched with humus peat.
Second top dressing
It is done 15-20 days after the first. At this time, the peonies are already budding. This time, top dressing is made liquid and 2-3 liters of fertilizer are poured under each bush. How it is prepared:
- Mix one part cow dung and 3 parts water. The infusion is aged for 10 days for fermentation. The resulting fermented mass is mixed until smooth and diluted with another ten parts of water. This solution is called mullein.
- 10 liters of mullein are taken and 2 tablespoons of any fertilizer with phosphorus and 1 tablespoon of any fertilizer with potassium are added to it. Phosphate fertilizers: superphosphate, ammophos, diammophos, bone meal, etc. Potash fertilizers: potassium chloride, potassium humate, potassium sulfate, potassium magnesia, etc.
Third top dressing
Although it is done after the peonies have faded, it also strongly depends on it. luxurious flowering peonies next year. Top dressing is done on wet ground and the bushes are watered with this solution: 10 liters of water + 30 g of superphosphate + 15 g of potassium sulfate.
Scheme of spring top dressing of peonies on a leaf
Peonies are fed along the leaf by spraying a special nutrient solution onto the plant. A garden sprayer or a regular home spray gun is used. In order for the fertilizer to linger on the leaves, and not drain from them, half a teaspoon of liquid is added to each liter of the prepared solution. detergent for dishes or a special thick solution, which in garden centers sold under the name "Adhesive". Peonies are fed on the leaf in the late afternoon and in dry weather.
First dressing
The best time for leaf feeding is mid-May. For fertilizer, water and urea are mixed. Water requires 10 liters, urea - 50 g.
Second top dressing
Done two weeks after the first. For her, 10 liters of water, 2 tablespoons of urea and 1/2 of a teaspoon of complex flower fertilizer are taken. Fertilizers are sold in any store and are called “Complex” or “Microfertilizers”. They include everything the flowers need trace elements.
Third top dressing
It is carried out 14 days after the second. Now, only the previously purchased microfertilizer is diluted in ten liters of water, and it takes 1 teaspoon or 2 tablets already.
Except spring dressings, peonies also require that they are not forgotten in the fall. This video will tell you how to feed peonies in the fall and how to prepare them for the winter.