Decorative garden: dig out the garlic
The cultivation of garlic for decorative purposes is still too little widespread. Meanwhile, among the 700 species of Allium garlic genus, many are suitable for cultivation in ornamental gardens. Most of them bloom in late spring or early summer (May to July), when the bulbous leaves turn yellow and dry.Similar, unfortunately, is the case with most garlic - beautiful umbrellas made of numerous small flowers are accompanied by yellowing leaves, so it is worth planting garlic among perennials, which, as they grow, will cover them.
After blooming, the garlic bulbs fall into summer dormancy and then they can be dug up, cleaned and separated from the daughter bulbs (preferably in August). This procedure should be performed every 3 years. After the bulbs are dug up, keep them in a dry room and plant them in the bed in autumn.
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Balconies and terraces in August
We are finishing seasonal feeding of plants
From mid-August we do not fertilize plants with woody shoots so that they can survive the winter well. This applies to plants such as: datura (datura), nightshade, fuchsia, mug, lepnota, bush pyrethrum, oleander and many others.
Cleanup in balcony boxes
We remove withered and dried-up annual plants and replace them with other plants, e.g. bush astra, sedum, heather, oak grass, chrysanthemums, old ash, ivy or periwinkle.
Time to decide to change the balcony decoration
It is worth considering changing the summer decoration of balconies to a typical autumn one.You can take advantage of the wide range of nurseries and choose the most interesting and most suitable deciduous or coniferous shrubs, as well as perennials with ornamental grasses and herbs inclusive.You also have to remember about the bulbous plants, which now planted in spring, will delight us.
Trees and shrubs: Tastes of bouquet hydrangea
The varieties with full inflorescences, such as the 'Grandiflora' hydrangea, are very attractive. It forms widely branched shrubs, growing up to 2-3 m in height. The leaves are elliptical or ovoid, sometimes arranged in three in whorls. The flowers are barren, chalky white, and when they fade, they turn pink to rusty red.They are gathered in magnificent conical inflorescences.
They develop from August to September. It can overwinter without cover, bushes need to be protected only in the coldest areas. In the garden, it should be planted in a sunny or shady position. He likes fertile, acidic, humus soil.In dry, hot summers it requires systematic watering.
Vegetable: plants and inflorescence shoots
When collecting the vegetative parts of vegetables in summer (mainly leaves, storage roots, onions), we sometimes notice shoots ending with flowers growing out of them. This is the case, for example, in leaf and root vegetables, onions, cabbage and radishes. Inflorescence shoots that appear too early are influenced by e.g. prolonged periods of cold during cultivation, inadequate cultivation time (length of the day), delaying the moment of harvesting.
After the emergence of flowering shoots, the edible parts of vegetables often lose their taste qualities, become smaller and fall apart. Therefore, you should not hesitate to harvest properly grown vegetative parts, and individual species and varieties of vegetables should be grown in accordance with agrotechnical recommendations.
Sad: cutting technique
The very principle of cutting is extremely simple. If we want to strongly limit the growth of the tree, prune all the increments behind the 3-5 leaves from the root of the shoot. We start pruning in spring, when the first young shoots of this year will be 10 cm long.
When more twigs break out of the sleeping buds, we repeat the activity regularly, sometimes several times a year.This is the so-called cut with three eyes, because each time we shorten all the increments behind the first leaves.Remember, however, that with this method of forming on the tree only fruit spines will start to grow. However, we will prevent the growth of new strong branches that should replace the old ones from time to time.
A slightly modified short shoot cut is more suitable for home gardens. It consists in pruning in July and August only strong, over 20 cm increments.This will result in the emergence of numerous shoots in the place of long growths, on which fruit rarely develop.If we prune regularly, in the following years we will notice that gradually more shoots with fruit begin to appear on the tree, the tree grows it is much weaker and the shape of the crown is more regular.
