We grow salvia from seeds for country beds

The Zenith of summer has come, and each plant seeks to declare itself. Flowering is a procreation. To bloom, sow the seeds of life force and go into the shadows, giving way to a new generation. Salvia dissolves its whisk of tubular flowers at the height of summer, when insects with long proboscis are most active insects. With its blooming victorious, it fascinates and delights. How to grow salvia, create a composition?

The origin and cultivation of salvia

Salvia and sage are one family of yasnotkovyh. The name of the flower is translated as a sign of its usefulness - to be healthy. About the usefulness of the plant sage is known to many. It is used for medicinal purposes since the days of ancient Egypt. Salvia is called decorative forms that have common ancestors with sage. Also in Europe, sage is called salvia.

The plant is cultivated in many species and is a wild-growing plant in America and Europe. Numerous genus are more than 900 different varieties. Even a hallucinogenic variety is found among the salvias. The plant loves bright places and light soils.

Planting and caring for salvia

Urban gardening cannot do without salvia for many reasons:

1. Salvia blooms continuously and throughout the warm period until frost.
2. A beautiful ornamental plant does not grow and keeps the created composition well.
3. Pollution from transport does not affect the ornamentation of the plant.
4. By selecting various shades of inflorescences, you can create any composition.

But gardeners, who start sowing salvia at home when the winter is only in full swing, love the plant no less. In addition to the victorious scarlet color of the panicle, salvias strike with a variety of tones. You can make a multi-level landing, picking up Salvia on the height of the bushes. But the main stage for long-term flowering will be the growing of salvia seedlings.

How and when to sow salvia on seedlingsSalvia seeds can be purchased at a specialty store, or you can get it yourself. They ripen after a flower has fallen off after 50 days. Seed germination lasts up to 5 years.

Still, it is better to buy varietal seeds in

specialized stores. Before sowing seeds, it is necessary to prepare the ground for seedlings. It should be light and nutritious. Two weeks before sowing salvia on seedlings, the soil should be treated with a compound that enhances biological processes in the sleeping ground. Sift the earth, moisten it, and place a teaspoon on the bucket of earth with the EM-1 Baikal preparation. The earth in the warmth will become fertile in two weeks, and at the same time the threadlike weed seedlings will come out, the seeds of which in the living earth will inevitably turn.

Place the prepared soil box in the pan, level and sow the small salvia seeds mixed with sand for a more even distribution. In order to press the seeds to the ground, you need to moisten the ground with a fine spray and cover the surface to preserve moisture. Planting and caring for salvia during seed germination are decisive for the further production of healthy seedlings.

Shoots will appear in 10-14 days. It is necessary to monitor the state of the land at this time, not allowing the coma to dry out. Watering is necessary to lead through the pan. The ground is drained through the drainage holes with moisture, after which the water from the sump is drained so that there is no excess moisture.

In the period of germination, prevent the plants from being pulled into the string and lodged.

Seedlings in the cotyledon stage can stretch out if they are in a shady location or high night temperatures. Then you should pour the ground to each sprout, not allowing it to fall. Watering to lead without wetting the leaf blade. When growing seedlings of salvia from seeds, this period is considered the most responsible. Illumination, reduced temperature will allow you to get strong seedlings at the first stage of planting

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Salvia pick from seeds must be done after the appearance of two or more true leaves, thus deepening the sprout to the cotyledon. The first pick can be in a common container 5 cm between the plants. The second dilution of plants is done in a month in separate cups, with a good capacity of earthen coma, since they have to develop up to one and a half months.

Whether it is necessary to feed salvia by growing seedlings, the condition of the plants will show. If the bush develops poorly, you can feed the mineral composition for flowers in low concentration. But with each transplant, fertile land is used and food should be sufficient.

When planting and caring for salvia, it is necessary to induce bushiness of the plant. After the appearance of 3-4 pairs of true leaves, the top should be pinched to give the opportunity to develop axillary shoots. In this case, arrange tanks with plants need so that there is no shading. Since late April, the temperature at night is reduced to 10 degrees, tempering salvia before landing in the ground.

So, in order to grow seedlings of salvia from seeds, the following conditions must be met:

• prepare fertile land and high-quality seeds;
• comply with the temperature and light conditions at each growth period;
• not to overdry and excessive moisture of the clod of the earth;
• at the time of producing the plant nip.

Planting salvia seedlings in the ground

Planting and caring for salvia in the open field is to choose the right place for the flower bed or bedding. The place should be well lit, the soil is light and fertile, with good moisture capacity. For violent flowering, you can add phosphorus-potassium fertilizers in instant form. In the hole when planting add guest ash, a spoonful of superphosphate and a liter of well-rotted organic matter. Carefully cross the bush into the ground and somewhat deepen it. Water with warm water and cover from the sun for a few days, until the plant takes root or planted in cloudy weather.

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Place plants 20-30 cm in length, depending on the height of the bush and its tendency to branch. Watering the plants is moderate; when drying the coma of the earth, water-charging irrigation should be done only in the evening. Flowering plants occurs within 100-120 days after germination and does not stop until frost. Flowering will be abundant if used for prophylaxis and for improving immunity foliar dressing on the basis of the preparation EM-1 Baikal.

Pests and plant diseases.

Salvia is not affected by fungal diseases. Therefore, the plant will have to fight only with insects that have settled it. Pests are whiteflies and thrips. Therefore, planting Salvia should be away from vegetables, as the whitefly will later settle on them. In addition, sage can inhabit the aphid, spider mite. Decorative plants while suffering. Therefore, they use strong drugs that are best not to use on vegetables during the fruiting period.

Snails and slugs love to eat the delicate foliage of salvia. If they are present in the garden, it will be a blessing not only for flowers to catch them. The classic method of bark and slate traps, laid out under the bushes will help. But in the containers with beer and fermented fruit juice even neighboring mollusks can crawl around.

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