✅ Section: Plant care 2025 January

Tip: prepare the greenhouse for the coming winter

When properly secured and prepared, a greenhouse can be a comfortable place for wintering plants. What should be borne in mind when preparing a greenhouse for winter? Here are the most important points.

Advice: reasons for hydrangea not blooming

Frostiness, incorrect pruning or unfavorable soil pH - there are many factors that cause the lack of flowering of hydrangeas. Here is a list of the most common causes of poor development of these plants.

Advice: plant sunburn

Damage to plants caused by too much sunlight is a common problem during hot months. We advise on how to recognize these damages and what they are characterized by.

Tip: Recycle the compost

Valuable compost obtained from organic waste is useful not only in spring but also in autumn. In order to efficiently obtain good-quality compost, we must remember about a few important issues.

Tip: summer formation of young trees

Young fruit trees require thoughtful formation if they are to bear fruit abundantly in the future. Bending twigs in the summer is one of the most important treatments of this type. This is how we conduct it.

Tip: summer cutting of trees in a row

Summer pruning is one of the most important treatments to keep trees and shrubs in an even and profusely fruiting row. Here's how to carry out the summer cutting of trees in the lane.

Tip: prepare the soil for a bed in autumn

The place where we plan to set up a new bed next spring should be prepared for cultivation this fall. By doing this now, we have the guarantee that in spring the soil will be, among others, properly fertilized.

Advice: how to protect bulbs that do not winter in the ground

Storage of storage organs that do not winter in the ground for bulbous plants should take place under specific conditions. What kind? For details, see the article below.

Tip: How to identify drought-resistant perennials

Plants resistant to drought or growing in well-drained soil are suitable for cultivation in, for example, less visited areas. Importantly, their endurance does not come at the expense of beauty.

Tip: How to recognize drought-resistant plants?

The ability to reduce transpiration is one example of how some plants have adapted to harsh conditions. Learn about the characteristic features of drought-resistant plants.

Advice: a dangerous potato blight

The occurrence of potato blight on tomatoes is favored by high air humidity and temperature around 15 ° C. How to recognize the disease and how to fight it? Details in the article.

Advice: how to propagate lavender

Fragrant lavender can be successfully reproduced by pinching and planting the obtained apical shoots. We advise on how to carry out the lavender propagation coincidence.

Tip: lighting the vine

With a large number of leaves, less fruit will develop from the compacted bush or it will not be very tasty. That is why it is so important to illuminate the vines, we remove unnecessary leaves in June.

Tip: the four seasons of roses

The guarantee of abundant and he althy flowering of roses is methodical year-round care. Fortunately, roses are not extremely demanding, and all the effort put into care is worth the final result.

Advice: pruning to ensure flowering in wisteria

A vigorous and even more flowering wisteria, a climber that requires late summer pruning to maintain an abundant habit. Fortunately, this procedure is not overly complicated.

Tip: diseases and pests of balcony plants

Aphids are the main problem of many balcony plant enthusiasts - both flowers, herbs and vegetables. We invite you to review the most common threats facing balcony plants in summer.

Catch-crops - seradela best for catch-crops

&bdquo; Plants for green fertilizer, left in the beds over the winter, form a protective bedding "- Zofia Dobrowolska, Wronki

Ingenious birch picket fence - how to build

&bdquo; It is worth displaying an irregularly shaped discount "- Zdzisława Woźniak, Tarnów

Imaginative wicker flower beds

&bdquo; I filled the wicker pots halfway with empty drink bottles to keep the containers airy "- Anna Kaczmarska, Łódź

Imaginative ornaments - decorations in the garden

&bdquo; They not only decorate, but also serve as flower beds "- Barbara Sarnowska, Brwilno

The idea for Virginia creeper - how to tame the virginia creeper

&bdquo; I managed to tame wild wine thanks to wicker forms "- Iwona Kipiel, Bobowa

Tomatoes from the ground

&bdquo; Plants are planted in sunny places, leaving them plenty of space for free growth "- Samanta Malinowska, Warsaw

Cherry tomatoes from pots - growing at home

It is worth remembering, especially in spring, that the extremely popular cherry tomatoes are suitable for home cultivation. Here's everything to keep in mind when growing cherry tomatoes on a balcony or windowsill.

Increased discount - advantages of increased discount

&bdquo; In a limited area it is easier to create the right conditions for a given group of plants. Additionally, the flowers are nicely displayed ”- Anna Trębacz, Legionowo

Basics of rose rejuvenation

Removing diseased shoots is not the only cutting operation that we have to carry out on the rose. Each of the main varieties should be pruned and cared for in a different way, we suggest how to do it correctly.

Peach Cutting Basics (Tip)

Peaches are trees that are distinguished by exceptionally vigorous growth. If they are planted additionally in fertile soil, they can often build an exceptionally strong crown in just two or three years, reaching over three meters in height. It is for this reason that peach trees require hard pruning every year.

Basic groups and dates for cutting roses (Tip)

It is an old horticultural custom to prune roses when forsythia is blooming, but not earlier than at the end of March. With different varieties of roses, however, the cutting date does not change, but the method. Different groups of roses are pruned this way.

The substrate guarantees he althy development

A frequent reason for unsatisfactory plant growth is the quality of the soil, which does not provide them with adequate nutrients. Here's how to diagnose your soil and enrich it with substrate mixtures.

Log floor

&bdquo; Wood should be impregnated "- Wanda Pliszka, Jugów

Substrates for greenhouse cultivation

Preparing the soil for seedlings in a greenhouse is not difficult, as long as we take care of the right proportions of peat substrate, fertilizer and water. Here is a proven recipe for early spring substrate preparation in a greenhouse for vegetable seedlings.