Preparing chrysanthemums for winter

If you want your favorite flowers to endure even the most severe, use tips to save chrysanthemums for the winter:

  1. If the chrysanthemum is only purchased, it should be clarified in which soil the plant is planted. Peat does not provide the necessary nutrients, so the flower must be transplanted into a normal nutritional formula. If the chrysanthemum was already sold when planted in a pot with a universal primer or a nutrient mixture, it is not necessary to transplant it.
  2. In too small a pot of chrysanthemum in the winter too will not survive, therefore it is necessary to transplant it in a pot in autumn in a pot of centimeter on 4 more in diameter.
  3. Even frost-resistant plants, acquired in the very beginning of autumn, will not have time to settle down in the open ground, therefore it is impossible to plant chrysanthemums before the onset of winter from the pot.
  4. If the cold has come, and the chrysanthemum is still blooming, it must be transferred to a warm place and given a flower. After that, the plant is cut at a distance of about 15 cm from the soil.

How to keep chrysanthemums in winter?

Storage of chrysanthemums in winter depends on various factors:

  1. If the chrysanthemum has late faded. Late chrysanthemum is cut off late, carefully wrapped together with a pot in a warm cloth and placed on wintering in a cool room with a temperature of about + 4 ° C. Water it is not necessary - the land must be dry.
  2. Storage of chrysanthemum planted in the ground in winter. It is not necessary to excavate frost-resistant chrysanthemums that have survived on the open ground. It is enough to cut them and hide them for the winter. It is important to choose a material in which the shelter will not be completely airtight, otherwise the chrysanthemums in winter can vypret. This method requires less effort, in spring the plant will not need to be re-planted in the ground. Disadvantages: survive in the open ground only special frost resistant varieties.
  3. How to keep Indian chrysanthemums for the winter? Indian chrysanthemums are not resistant to cold, so in the open ground they can not withstand wintering. To begin with, Indian chrysanthemums are cut at a height of 15 cm from the ground, then densely laid in deep boxes and covered with wet peat with sand (mixture in 1/1 ratio). Draw boxes into the room should only after the onset of frost, before that they should be on the street. The temperature of the air in the room for such wintering of chrysanthemums should be from -1 to + 5 ° C. Plants keep the whole winter without watering.
  4. Storage of chrysanthemum in winter in a trench (for chrysanthemums that have settled down to the ground). Preparation for wintering chrysanthemums begins in the autumn, before frosts. The location for the trench is chosen on a hill to avoid stagnation of water, and sunny. The trench is digged at a depth of at least 50 cm. The bottom is laid with a dense layer of needles or sawdust. Before planting chrysanthemums in a trench, they must be cut (as usual - at a distance of 10-15 cm from the ground), dig out and it is not strong to enclose earth lumps. In a trench, plants are installed in dense rows, can be mixed with other perennials. It is important not to lay plants, but arrange them for planting. After all rows are densely planted, chrysanthemums are filled with sawdust or needles and covered with boards. That the plants do not fall asleep with snow and do not flood with wet rain, the boards are covered with a dense polyethylene film and are covered with earth. In the early spring, the boards are removed, but the chrysanthemums from the trench do not reach right away: you need to give 2-3 days to stand the trench open, so that the sun's rays warm up chrysanthemums, sprinkled with sawdust. Advantages of the method: in spring the plants are taken from the trench with already green shoots, completely ready for planting.