Lobelia: cultivation and planting

Among a multitude of annual flowers special attention is worthy of lobelia. Growing seedlings of the front garden often does not do without these small, unpretentious, but beautiful flowers that cover the soil, create a cozy and presentable appearance. The length of these plants reaches 10-15 cm. There are many varieties of lobelia, so before growing lobelia seedlings, decide what sort you want to see, what color should be the flowers of lobelia. Her flowers can be blue, blue, rarely found white. You can alternate varieties of different shades. Any ground mixture can be used to plant lobelia. The main thing that it was soft and loose, absorbed moisture well.

How to grow lobelia seedlings? Get a ground mixture and small pots or other containers that can get off for planting a lobelia. To pour them is hot water. After that, seeds of flowers should be sprinkled on the surface of the soil. Lobelia grows very slowly. Cultivation of it can take several months, so plant it early, you can even in early February. Place the seeds with seeds in a warm place, but in no case on the battery. Cover them on top with a plastic transparent lid, preferably with glass, but make sure that mold does not form inside. The optimum temperature is about 20 ° C. Growing and planting lobelia is a delicate matter, after all, the question may arise: how to grow lobelia seedlings, if its sprouting sprouts are so small and tender, they are so easily damaged? For irrigation, it is best to use a syringe with a planted needle filled with water. A thin trickle you can not damage almost microscopic sprouts. When the first real leaflets appear on the flower, plant the most healthy looking plants in a separate container. They can be planted in groups of 3-5 flowers. This is done in order to get seedlings in the form of lush bushes that look good. After a while, you can slightly pinch your flowers if they are related to bush varieties. If this is an ample grade, you do not need to do this.

Although not such a capricious plant lobelia, growing it provides for constant monitoring of light, water regime. If there is an overabundance of moisture in the container, soon the stems will start to become covered with white mold. If the moisture is not enough, then the leaves roll into the tube. This is a sign that it's time to pour the flowers. During this period it is contraindicated to "feed" fertilizers with shoots of lobelia. Cultivation of sprouts taking into account these recommendations will allow you to see the pleasing look of the lobelia seedlings adorning your front garden or flower beds by the beginning of the summer.

When it is clear that the frosts will not return, you can plant flowers in the ground, observing between them a distance of 10 to 15 cm. Immediate planting of the lobelia is performed in places with fertile, friable and rather moist soil, open to sunlight or slightly shaded. If you plant lobelia in humus-manure soil, this plant will grow rapidly, but in that case do not be surprised if instead of flowers you will see only the tops. So, it is better not to land on such soil.

"Fodder" lobely fertilizer can be two or three times in the summer. The first time you can take potassium sulfate. In the second and third time, use a complex soil fertilizer , which grows lobelia. Cultivation - it's not all, do not forget to take care of the seedlings every day, watering twice a day, that is, in the morning or in the evening.

In severe heat, as well as insufficient watering, lobelia can cease its flowering. Therefore, this flower requires daily watering and, if necessary, a slight shading from the scorching sun, if the plant is in window boxes. However, this flower loves the sun, so it is better to plant it where there is a sunny color. Learning how to grow lobelia seedlings, you can already think about which places of the ground to decorate with these unpretentious and beautiful flowers, begin preparations for its planting.