Spring garden work
I love April and spring in bloom! Maybe it's a cliche, but then you just want to live! As soon as the sun shines, I start working in the garden:
- I loosen the soil,
- I sow and plant annuals,
- I trim bushes,
- fertilize the lawn
Bulb flowers
The apple of my eye is onion flowers, especially the spring ones - snowdrops, crocuses, narcissus, daffodils, sapphires and tulips. I have different species of these plants, which makes my backyard garden sparkle with colors from March to May.I admit that it looks like this thanks to my hard work, but I don't complain, because the garden is my hobby.
Fungal diseases of bulb flowers - symptoms
Everything is great when plants do not get sick, but when something starts to happen to them, you have to save them somehow. It can be difficult when you are an amateur like me, but what is professional literature and garden center salesmen for! In the last year, I had few daffodils, crocuses and tulips in bloom, and the ones that grew had leaves, shoots, and even flowers in small, round spots covered with gray bloom. It looked like a kind of ringworm.
Gray mold on tulips, daffodils and crocuses - symptoms
I started looking for information. I finally found it. Bulb plants are often attacked by gray mold. It is a dangerous fungal disease that spreads quickly on warm and humid days, affecting entire plantations. It wreaked havoc in my garden, as many bulbs could not be saved.
Gray mold on tulips, daffodils and crocuses - combating
I had to dig up and burn the most infested plants. All the less infected, I cut leaves and flowers so that they would not infect the others.
A saleswoman I know in a nearby garden shop advised me two preparations for alternating spraying: Biosept 33SL and Bravo 500SC. I think they were effective, because now last year's tulips are in good shape.
Tamara Koryluk
GARDEN RECIPE Beware of chemical preparations!
Prophylactic chemical spraying causes the fungus causing the disease to become resistant to the preparation. When the infection really attacks, the preparation will not be effective against it and will not help fight it. There are cases when the fungus became so resistant to a given agent that it grew better and faster after spraying than before the treatment.
