Useful and beautiful digitalis: growing out of seeds

If you liked elegant foxglove, growing from seeds will be the best way to get a useful beauty in your garden. An excellent crop of the plant can be obtained only in open areas with good sunlight. The selected soil must be fertile, well drained and loose.

Professionals advise to prepare the soil, diligently clearing it of all the weeds and remnants of the past "inhabitants". In the early spring, the earth is dug up, loosened with special devices and sown with digitalis. If the crop occurs in the pre-winter period, the soil is prepared a month before planting. You can use organic fertilizers or a mixture of them with the addition of mineral fertilizing. Seeds often give sparse shoots, for example, this is the way the fox feathers lead. Therefore, it is necessary to sow them superficially and necessarily in the early spring. The first sprouts may appear on the 6th day, but usually not later than the 15th day after planting.

Emerging weeds from flower beds and glades are carefully removed, but you need to be extremely careful with fragile young plant sprouts and their roots. Farmers who need dozens of hectares plant a foxglove plant, growing from seeds prefer some other methods. However, unprofessional gardeners often try to pre-grow seedlings.

In medicine, apply both leaves and flowers of the plant. Therefore, in industrial cultivation, plants such as digitalis large-flowered or woolly, give 2-3 yields of useful leaves per season. If you harvest leaves yourself, they are collected when they reach a size of 10-20 cm (depending on the size of the species), at the end of July and August. Cleaning is appointed on a dry, sunny day, otherwise the raw material will be reduced in the amount of nutrients.

Want to have a healthy digitalis in your garden? Cultivation of seeds, self-seeding or simple division of a bush will be the best option. Stormy, aromatic blooms fall in June-August. Withered flowers turn into tempting boxes with seeds, which need to be allowed to ripen and dry on a branch.

The lush greenery of the bush looks decorative and attractive and after the loss of buds. Do you need a medical digitalis? Growing out of seeds is the easiest way to get this medicinal plant, collected in a guaranteed environmentally friendly conditions.

To decorate mixborders, the flower is placed in the central zone, since the plant looks equally good from all sides. The palette of the foxglove colors includes white, cream, red, purple and pink.

The cut plant is able to stand in the vase for up to 10 days, sometimes throwing out a new arrow. Next to this strange flower, various shrubs, for example, rose, honeysuckle, viburnum or chubushnik, are perfectly suited. Also good looking hosts, mysterious aquilegia, garden varieties of geraniums or traditional for our latitudes peonies.

Designers often use digitalis as a hedge, while the main plants grow.

Observing small precautions, it is possible to prepare a medicinal decoction from the collected leaves. However, without emergency and consultation with a doctor, it is better not to do so. Prescribe drugs from digitalis as a good remedy for hypertension, but it is necessary to get a regimen for a cardiologist.