The delphiniums like sunny places and rather heavy soil with a high content of clay and clayey parts. The excess and retention of moisture can be avoided by thoroughly loosening the substrate just before planting the plants.Experienced gardeners have noticed that delphiniums react to excess humus with reduced immunity.
Therefore, when fertilizing, the doses of compost should be reduced. The dose of long-acting fertilizer applied early in the spring is better.After flowering, you can add liquid fertilizer to the larkspur.
We fight snails by sprinkling an appropriate preparation around the plants that does not harm earthworms, hedgehogs and other useful animals.The old method is to manually pick the mollusks early in the morning.
Cut for flowering
Almost all delphiniums, both long-lived and shorter-lived, can repeat flowering at the turn of summer and fall.Such a repeat, however, will only occur if the plants are cut immediately after the first flowering in July.Shoots are best trimmed at a height of about 10 centimeters above the ground.
In order for the empty stems to retain as little water as possible, bend each stem at the top.Plants need a lot of energy to sprout new shoots and flowers.This will be provided by liquid or mineral fertilizer with phosphorus.
