Sometimes capricious seeds (bad germinate) or even to germinate. In addition, the seedlings are not very easy to tolerate transplantation, and the search for glasses are always problems. Therefore, many gardeners have come up with to use as containers for seedlings, egg shells, which are stocking all winter.
what is needed
- Seeds.
- Grunt.
- Eggshell.
- Pallets from the eggs.
- Film.
what next
Eggshell for planting seeds must be intact and well dried.
In her fall asleep fertile soil, put 1 - 2 seeds and sprinkle on top of loose soil at 1 - 2 cm.
Shell put into containers for storing eggs and covered with transparent film.
CAUTION: Since the amount of soil in the shell is limited, it is necessary to make sure that it does not dry up.
Around the fifth day, when the seeds hatch, you can clear film cover, while continuing to monitor soil moisture.
Another 10-14 days seedlings kept on the windowsill. And when the warm weather, can be taken outside for hardening.
By the time of planting will be strong and stocky.
When planting seedlings in open ground do not need to be removed from the shell, but only slightly clenched in a fist, so that it is cracked, and drop into the hole.
The result - the plants receive additional fertilizer, because in a lot of shell lime. Eggshell reduces the acidity of the soil, improves its structure, increases the efficiency of mineral fertilizers. Seedlings rapidly gaining strength, and gives a great harvest.
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Year has not yet come, and even the pre-turmoil is not observed and there is no hint of imminent triumph, but should figure out how to decorate your table and surprise that their guests. For example, you can impress the audience by placing a vase Dec. 31, full of fragrant lilacs. Where to get it? Themselves to grow in the winter.
And So ...
produce a distillation of lilac in the winter, you need to take a few branches that have well-developed flower buds. Sami branches must be cut at the end of October or early November. After cutting them placed for 5 weeks in a refrigerator at a temperature in the range -3 - (- 5) degrees. If you cut the branches in December or later, they are no longer required promorazhivat. Somewhere in the middle of December, placed in the refrigerator branches are removed and placed on a term of up to 12 hours OT8 in a bath filled with water at a temperature not higher than room temperature. After a bath threads get, and the ends of their fragmenting. Samuel lilac after such a procedure, plunging to a depth of no more than 20 cm, and put in a special pre-prepared (for 5-6 hours before) solution.
Solution Recipe: 1 liter of water is taken, it is added 0.8 g of potassium alum, 0.2 gram of sodium chloride (i.e., sodium chloride), 0.3 g of potassium chloride, and 3 g of sugar.
To get something you have, the solution should be changed daily, as well as daily updates on the ends of the cut-off place. The temperature of the ambient air must be between + 18 (+20) degrees. In addition, you will need very high humidity, which often flower buds have to spray the water. Days 15-20 lilac, if done right, will bloom. To preserve the flowers fresh for a long time, twigs placed in a vase with a very feeble solution of citric acid; in the water you can add vinegar - just a few drops.
In the future, if you have a cottage there lilac bushes and you want to do it by distillation, starting somewhere from late May until the end of June, the bushes to be a good fertilizer.
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In terms of projects on gardening little compared to the duration of the project for the cultivation of their own sprawling oak from an acorn! Fortunately, the cultivation of oaks - this activity is fairly simple and amazingly useful. It also gives a memorable opportunity for you and your family to grow up next to a tree, which is small at first, will eventually become a massive emphasis in your neighborhood and this gift will go towards future generations. As it grows you have the opportunity to take an active part in the life cycle of the natural beauty of wood. Start with Step 1 - Please note that ideally this process should begin in late summer or early autumn.
Selecting and planting acorns
1.Collect acorns early autumn. Acorns are best harvested before mid-autumn before they fall off the trees. Select acorns without worm holes and mold. Suitable acorns should be brownish with a small green tint, although the appearance of acorns varies depending on the type of oak in which they grew up. As a rule, for the collection of best fit those that are easily removed from the cap.
Note that the hat is not part of an acorn, a (separate) the protection of some sort. Taking off with acorn caps, you will not hurt, unless he broke down the acorn.
If possible, find suitable trees in the summer. You need to acorns mature tree which is easily accessible via stairs or a long stick.
Some species of oaks, for example, in red oak acorns mature in two years rather than one. If you pick the right tree in the summer, remember this - on some acorns mature oaks in the autumn, while the other will not be ready until next year.
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2.Conduct "floating" test. Put gathered acorns in a bucket of water. Wait a couple of minutes. Throw away all the acorns that are left to swim - they are spoiled.
If at any time you notice that the acorn is soft to the touch, throw it away too. Soft, shapeless acorns rotten inside.
3. Enter the remaining acorns into a state of hibernation. Take the "good" acorns from the water and dry them. Put them in a large resealable bag with dry wood shavings, vermiculite mixture of moss or nutrient medium that can retain moisture. In a particularly big package should fit up to 250 acorns. Place the package on a half months in the refrigerator or longer - as much as necessary, to a new oak sprouted.
This process is known as stratification, which in simple terms means the impact on the cold seeds, simulating the natural conditions in which the seed falls when falling to the ground. This starts the germination of the seed in the spring.
Periodically check the acorns. The nutrient medium should be only slightly damp. If it is too wet - acorns can rot if too dry - they can not grow.
4. Watch the growth of your acorns. Even when they were stored in a refrigerator, most acorns will germinate in a humid environment. Root tip can begin to break through the shell around the beginning of December (late fall, early winter). Regardless of whether or not sprouted root, acorns ready for planting after 40-45 days of storage.
Treat your seedlings carefully - the protruding roots are easily damaged.
5.Plant each acorn in a pot or container. Find a small diameter (5 cm) garden pots (or if you prefer, large plastic cups or milk cartons) for your plants. Fill them with quality garden soil (some sources advise add shredded peat moss. For watering leave empty top about 2 centimeters. Put your acorn deep under the surface of the spine down.
If you use plastic cups or milk cartons, pierce holes on the sides of the bottom of the cup to allow water to come out.
If you want, you can also try simply to bury an acorn in the garden. Prikopalis spine, and gently press down one acorn into a suitable strontium rich, soft ground. This will work only if the root is already well developed, long and well departs from the acorn. Note - so seedlings will be vulnerable to mice, squirrels, etc.
6.Pour your seedlings. Watering your plant until such time until the water flow out of the hole at the bottom of the container. In the following weeks watering often, not allowing the ground to dry. In this period of life keep your seedlings indoors. Put it on a window sill at the southern window, so that it can absorb the winter sun. You do not immediately notice the rapid growth. This is because at this stage of their life in plants below the soil surface is developed taproot.
If you live in the southern hemisphere put your seedlings on the windowsill in the north window.
Transplant seedlings
1 Watch the growth of plants. Gardeners differently advise what to do next - Some Tips to transplant seedlings immediately in the open ground after a few weeks of growth in the pot , while others are advised to gradually increase the time spent outside the plant before it landed in open ground. It is also advised to transplant seedling in a pot of larger size that it further grew and only then planted in the soil. Though there is no one right way to determine when the seedlings can be planted in open ground, there are signs that indicate to you that it is ready for transplant. Suitable candidates for transplantation:
height of about 10-15 cm with small leaves.
him looking healthy, white roots.
clearly outgrown its pot.
the main root of well grown.
its age from several weeks to several months.
2. Select a place to land. Location means a lot - choose for your place of oak, which is enough space to grow and not have discomfort when the tree will grow big. When choosing a location for your oak should consider a few things:
The availability of sunlight. Like all living plant photosynthesis, oak need sunlight to live, so it did not land in dark places.
Place away from the tracks, plumbing, piping in the ground, etc. You do not want to kill your tree if you have to do any work in the garden.
Shadow that will cast a mature tree. If you want the tree to give shade for your home, put him on the west or south-west side of your home to increase shading in summer and winter to reduce it.
Note - in the southern hemisphere should plant a tree on the west or north-west side of your home to get the shading.
Vegetation nearby. Plants compete with each other for the sun, moisture and other resources. Do not set down in either oak where many already growing other plants, or it can not grow up to adulthood.
3.Preparing place to land. Once you have chosen the right place for your tree, remove the sod in a circle with a diameter of about 1 meter. Shovel digging up the soil to a depth of about 25 inches, breaking large lumps. If the ground is dry, moisten it yourself or wait until after the rain, before plant your tree.
4. Dig a hole. In the middle of your meter circle dig a hole depth of 6-90 centimeters and 30 centimeters wide. The exact depth of your pit depends on the length of the main root of your seedling - it must be large enough to fit.
5. Transplant your oak. Root down and leaves up gently place your oak tree in the prepared hole. Make sure that the depth enough to fit oak root. Fill the earth and gently tap. Pour after transplantation.
Tamp the soil around the seedling oak, making the slope in the direction of the seedlings to water does not stay near the tree trunk - this can damage it.
Put a circle or pieces of bark mulch about 30 inches from the tree to the ground remained moist and weeds do not germinate. Make sure it does not touch the stem of the tree.
To increase the chances of a successful transplant, you should plant a few acorns in one place. In this case your plant acorn sprouts directly in the ground, clearing an area measuring 60 by 60 inches and place it on this site two acorn, covered with a layer of soil 2-5 inches thick.
Care oaks
1.Protect your oaks. Oaks - especially the young and tender - a source of food for many herbivores. Acorns like a snack and mouse proteins, which can easily dig them. Small seedlings are vulnerable to rabbit, deer and other animals that feed on leaves. To make sure that your trees have been destroyed, take steps to protect them. Put around trees lattice of mesh netting or strong plastic fence around the trunk to them before they reached the animals.
If you live in an area where there are deer, you should also protect the crown of the tree grid.
You may need to use pesticides to protect your tree from a variety of insects, including aphids and beetles. Be careful when choosing pesticides - use only those that do not harm your tree and your family.
2. Irrigated trees in dry weather. Long root oak allows him to extract moisture from a depth even when the soil surface is completely dry. Winter and rainy months of your oaks usually do not need to be watered. However, when the oaks are still young, they may suffer from hot and dry weather. Install a drip irrigation - a good way to deliver water to the young trees, especially when they need it. Take for irrigation drip about 30 liters of water for one to two weeks. Irrigation during the hottest and driest months required in the first two years, with the growth of the tree can reduce the intensity of irrigation.
Remember that water should not be given to gather around the tree trunk. Set your irrigation system so that water dripping around the tree, but not directly on the trunk, where it can cause rotting.
3.Po the growth of the tree will be less in need of care. As your oak grows, and its roots go deeper, you will need to take care of it less and less. In the end, it will be a great and high, and the animals will not be able to destroy it, and the roots will be deep enough to survive the summer without watering. Gradually, over several years, reduces the degree of caring for your tree (which apart from watering during dry months and protection from animals more than anything is not included). Over time, your tree will thrive on their own without any signs of exhaustion. Enjoy the gift of yourself and your family that will stay with you for life!
After 20 years of oak can start your own fruit acorns, but it depends on the type of wood. Optimal growth of acorns may not happen in 50 years.
Tips
Even small oak trees shed their leaves in the fall, so do not worry if your tree, the leaves turned yellow and fell off. Just wait until spring.
Plug into the ground with a stick protective netting around the seedlings to avoid being eaten by animals.
Inspect the tree from which you collect acorns - it should be beautiful and healthy. If the parent tree has a problem - choose a different, better.
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Passion fruit is an ancient genus of tropical crops Passiflora. In Australia, the fruit are called Passion, which literally translates as "passion fruit". Africans call him Granadilla, and in Malaysia and Indonesia - "Marquis". Passion is the birthplace of southern Brazil.
In spring and summer, passion fruit propagated apical cuttings (using stalks after pruning). Before planting, the lower ends of the cuttings should be disinfected to prevent rotting, and then slices powder wood ash.
Cuttings are planted in a mixture of equal parts of any nutrient light of earth and sand. For rapid establishment requires a high air and soil temperature (not lower than 25 degrees). For these purposes it is better to use mini-teplichke with bottom heating. Cuttings should be watered regularly and spray with warm water.
Much less hassle delivers seed propagation, which can be sown at any time of the year. Seeds germinate quickly and amicably. The seedlings grow well and usually two weeks in phase two or three true leaves, they are transplanted to a permanent place in loose fertile mixture of leaf soil, humus, sod land, peat and sand, taken in equal parts.
Initially, passion fruit transplanted every spring, and then after two or three years. When transplanting use pots slightly larger diameter, since a significant increase in the root system can lead to the rapid growth of shoots at the expense of flowering.
Lack of passion fruit seed reproduction is later stages of fruiting (the second or fourth year). It is important to remember that the passion fruit vine is, and it needs support.
This photophilous plant grows well on windows facing south, east or west side. Passion fruit, and can contain a field with a certain shading, but in this case the bloom is less active.
Passionfruit loves fresh air, but can not tolerate drafts, in response to which can dump the leaves.
In the summer of passion fruit recommended plenty of water and spray as often as possible. In winter, when the air temperature drops water treatment should be carried out occasionally.
Passionfruit
What do you know about this sultry beauty bright? Few of us realize that this exotic fruit can be found not only in the store, but also to grow the most. Then you can safely say all my friends that grow these exotic fruits at home. Another name - passionflower edible. It grows near the Amazon River and in some other parts of South America, where there is a tropical rainforest.
Lighting
Of course, passionflower need bright light for proper growth. It would be great to grow even in direct sunlight. So no need to once again worry about shading. Still it is possible to raise it in the shade. She also begins to develop well, just do not be active flowering. If possible, you can put a lamp that will simulate daylight. Also, do not forget to constantly ventilate the room. This is very useful for plants. In the summer it will certainly need fresh air. Therefore, place the pot at the open window or make it on the balcony.
Watering
There is only one important factor that you need to keep in mind - is watering passion fruit. It is desirable that he was always plentiful. Moisturize the plant as soon as the soil begins to dry out. It should be always damp, in particular, it concerns the period of growth and flowering. If the ground is overdried, the leaves begin to fall rapidly. And then, it can lead to death. If moistened earth com or water will stagnate in the pan, then there will be a lot of problems. So stay tuned for watering. It is important not to overdo it. Of course, winter watering should be gradually reduced. Can also be sprayed from time to time with warm water leaves the plant. This is especially true hot, poorly ventilated areas with very dry air. If you want to increase the moisture, then put the pot on a specially-prepared pan, place where pre-wet porous material. This can be expanded clay or peat.
Nutrition
The vegetation period lasts from March to August. At this time, the power needed. Fed once or twice a week. In winter, do not need fertilizer.
It often happens that shoots eventually become bare. This means that plants need Forming. For example, if the branch is very elongated, they should be cut off half. But it is sure to leave a piece of branches up to five centimeters. From then it will grow new shoots.
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Fragrant melon on the window
Melon
This juicy summer beauty can be grown in an apartment. Enough to have warm sunny windowsill.
1. Before sowing seeds treat potassium permanganate. 8 hours can soak seeds in a solution of trace elements.
2. After rassypte seeds on thin gauze until germination.
3. The soil should be loose: Mix equal parts of turf earth, humus, peat and sand. At the bottom of the box lay drainage.
4. Pour the solution of potassium permanganate ground pink.
5. The seeds are planted at a depth of 1 cm. Top cover with foil and put in the battery.
6. Once the seeds germinate, remove the tape and move the seedlings on the windowsill.
7.Every otner day watering plants and fertilize with a solution mullein or bird droppings
8. The temperature should be above 20-25 degrees. To maintain soil temperature can close the black film.
9. Pollinate melon must manually. Touch the stamens of male flowers to the stigma of the female flower.
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Growing watermelon at home quite easily. With the right approach in May, you can get a full fruit.
Seeding can be done immediately to a permanent place, without planting seedlings. Given the size of the root system of the plants of the future, it is necessary to use a bucket or tub volume of about 10 liters.
Preparing the ground for about 30 days prior to planting of fertile soil with humus and trace elements. It is subjected to a pre-liming.
In the middle of the bucket at a shallow depth (approximately 3 cm) placed two or three seeds. After sprouting leaves the strongest plant. Place the plants on a wide windowsill. Joinery should be tightly closed to keep the cold air seeping. At the bottom of the bucket is necessary to make holes to drain excess water. If the vessel wall transmit light, it is necessary to wrap something dark to prevent greening roots.
Development of the plant until the first fruits lasts about 3 months. The first half of the term falls on the growth of the plants, the second - the ripening of the fruit.
At a time when daylight lasts less than 12 hours, watermelons need supplementary lighting. To do this, the window is set lyuminisentnye lamps to give coverage volume, need reflectors.
Of fertilizer in the early development of plants need nitrogen and phosphorus in equal measure, with ripe fruit - a high proportion of potassium and a little nitrogen.
The stem is grown on the support of up to 1m, then it should be prischipnut. The plants remain at no more than two fetuses. When the fetus becomes the size of an orange, it is put into the net and tie. The fruit watermelon home is small, about 700 g, but thin-skinned.
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Dwarf fruit trees apple and pear on the windowsill - it is nothing like columnar varieties of apples and pears grown in pots.
Dwarf fruit trees require after leaf fall, a period of rest, otherwise - no fruit. Therefore, the pots of trees should be moved to a cold room is not below -15 ° C.
Dwarf fruit apple trees and pear trees are needed for the passage of small cold dormancy period. They can be kept in the basement or in a cold barn, previously heaped pots filings.
If autumn leave pots on the balcony of the complete freezing of the roots will help the box with sawdust, and which will be in pots with fruit trees.
With the onset of spring, skid pots in an apartment on the windowsill.
Although the dwarf fruit tree are urged to self bare the most attention. They appreciate a sunny place, permeable, luxury turf ground. Tub, in a sapling grows dwarf, is bound to be the size of a minimum quantity of 30 l-t In warm weather, the plant evaporates a lot of water through the leaves. Because quite weighty choose a tub with great capacity. More than the capacity, the better the water retained in the matrix. Consequently, the plant receives more rational conditions for its own full-fledged development. Also, in the great tubs with fruit trees or ground cover may implanting ampelnye small plants, such as strawberries or strawberry. Specious hiding ground, they give a certain charm and comfort.
For miniature fruit gain, rising in tubs, you will need to provide a good water drainage. To achieve the desired result in the ground pour 5-7 Santa. layer of expanded clay. Say with all other plants, trees will need to be checked for the presence of pests. Each year, you will need to cut the side shoots, giving it his own bonsai desired shape. At constant watering and fertilizing, your dwarf fruit trees will entertain you generous and prosperous harvests.
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