How to prepare gladioli for planting in spring?

If you are interested in how to prepare gladioli for planting, then, first of all, pay attention to the planting material.

It should be stored at a temperature of 4 to 10 degrees and remain at rest. Moreover, planting material needs to be brought home into the apartment only at the end of March. If these important conditions are met, the gladioli will sprout together and at the same time. Otherwise, the first shoots will appear only in July.

A week before the planned planting, the tuber buds need to be sorted out, choosing among them those that have several root tubercles. The more there are, the more powerful and hardy the flower will be.

Gladioli and their cultivation

Growing gladioli It starts with choosing a sunny place for planting, protected from cold winds. The designated area must be carefully treated in the fall: cleared of weeds and dug deep.

Gladioli care It will be much easier if you prefer alkaline soil. If the soil is acidic, you need to add lime or dolomite flour to it.

If you have sandy loam soil, then you can add humus or peat to it. Under no circumstances should it be fertilized with fresh organic matter, as this causes such gladioli diseases like botrytis, fusarium and other fungal diseases.

All varieties of gladioli require regular watering, loosening the soil, weeding, mulching the soil, and applying mineral fertilizer.

Also try to prevent non-infectious diseases that are associated with non-compliance with the rules of agricultural technology.