Growing monarda from seeds

Monarda, also often called American lemon balm or lemon balm, is a perennial ornamental and medicinal plant. Monarda has quite impressive dimensions: its height often reaches eighty centimeters, while the plant is highly branched, and its bushes often have a diameter of more than half a meter. This flower is extremely valued by flower growers not only for its healing properties, but also due to its more than aesthetic appearance. Besides, growing monarda is a fairly simple and easy process.

Growing monarda begins with sowing seeds for seedlings. This manipulation is extremely necessary, since seed planted directly into the ground without preliminary preparation germinates quite poorly. Seeds needed sow seedlings in mid-April.

Sprouted and strengthened seedlings can be transferred to open ground at the end of May (and it is better to do this at the beginning of June) so that the distance between neighboring plants there was at least half a meter. The optimal place for planting monarda is an open area protected from the wind with non-acidic soil. Further care of the plant is very simple and involves regular watering, removing weeds, and loosening the soil. In order for the plant to bloom better and longer, it should be treated (this can be done any year after planting) with a special preparation. The most effective means of this kind are Color, Orgamin, SeDeK Record, Energy, Minirationn and so on.