Godetia - growing in the garden and at home

Home plants are able to decorate and revitalize the house. How much joy and admiration for the flower grower-lover is delivered by a green pet with blossoming flowers! For example, such a beautiful plant as godets. Cultivation of it is possible both at home and in the garden.

This bright and colorful annual flower comes from North America. Its flowering lasts a long time, from July to October. Variety of varieties and colors allows you to cultivate both tall plants that can reach 50 cm, and undersized, growing to a maximum of twenty centimeters. There are both simple and double flowers, different in size, color. The name of the large-flowered state, the cultivation of which leads to the production of a bushy plant, speaks for itself. Lush flowers can in diameter reach ten centimeters. There are gentle pink, snow-white, purple, dark purple and other colors. "Charming" godetsiya - tall plant with small flowers. It blooms until late autumn.

If you want your garden to be decorated with a year of cultivation of seeds which does not require special efforts, then it is necessary to take care of the preparation of the soil. The plant does not tolerate the transplant, so this method of breeding is considered optimal. The end of April is suitable for sowing. Preliminary it is necessary to issue a flower bed. It should be in a well-lit place of the site, on its southern side, which is heated by the sun. To properly develop the year, the cultivation of flowers requires well-fertilized, loamy soil, weakly acidic or neutral. At the same time, the land should not be excessively moistened. Ground should be dug up and loosened. Seeds are located at an equal distance from each other, then sprinkled with earth or peat.

You can also grow a year of seedlings from the middle of spring. For picks use plastic cups. When planting in the open ground, they are cut so as not to damage the seedlings. At the bottom of the hole, where the flowers will grow, it is necessary to pour peat.

If the flower is supposed to be planted at home, then a pot or pot with a drainage layer is prepared for it. As a soil, a mixture of peat, river sand, rotten oyster mushroom and garden soil is used. Soil from the suburban area is better to decontaminate, having showered it with boiling water.

The flower godemia requires the next care. Watering should be done regularly, but moderately. In this case, you should use stagnant, warmed by the sun water. Twice during the flowering period the plant is fed with a complex mineral fertilizer. It is necessary to clean the wilted inflorescences in time. This is done so that the bush gets more oxygen. As a preventive measure for diseases, it is recommended that the treatment be treated with fungicides, special preparations that can be bought in flower shops. To rejoice with its flowering godet, growing it must be accompanied by preventive measures to protect the plant from pests. It is also necessary to regularly and timely remove weeds and loosen soil.