May monthly garden work

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This is the most beautiful time in the garden. Apricots bloom ends, cherries prank out with white truss and apple trees is covered with pink buds. Currants, cherries, apple rings are willingly attended by bees, lazily but until a late night bumble are flying around them. Bees carries pollen from the ring to the ring, because dust from foreign ring is much more viable the fruits are bigger, gardens are more consistent. Therefore saveguard the bees and if it’s possible – keep them. No pesticides should be used in garden during the flowers blooming. Give advice to a neighbor, not to do this too.
Gardens are often damaged by late frosts. And it’s difficult to protect flowering fruit trees from them. It’s recommended when the chilled weather comes start fires, burning of various forms of waste, but it is not so easy to do. It is easier in the morning after the frost spray trees with water, then the rings are recovering and less damage is made.

Very important work at this time is the graft of apple and pear trees. It’s done to low value, poor varieties of fruit trees. Small trees are grafted one time, and more grown within two or three years. You can still fold back Currant and other berry crops stems. It is as follows: next to the main bush the hollow is done, then the stem is bend and tacked to the ground using a hook. At the beginning of the hollow stem bark is slightly incised with arched cut, and is left for some time. From the horizontal stem, that is, all buds are starting to grow shoots. When they grow and are 15 to 20 cm high, the bended stem is showered with ground, which is constantly watered. Then the sleeping bud starts to develop roots. When the autumn is coming, a new cluster should be separated from the main bush, it can be distributed in parts or all at once planted. This is done if necessary.

The order is maintained in the garden. Weeds are systematically destroyed. Crust which is formed after a rain has to be broken. In the autumn and spring planted trees watered. Since the spring all waste is composted.

Most vegetables are sown and planted at this month. We plant and sow by several phenological timing. The actual start of the spring, when average daily temperature exceeds 5 ° C, when ordinary Eve green (April 25 – May 8 ), Anemone nemorosa starts blooming (April 25 – May 10 ), Cuckoo begins to cuckoo (April 25 – May 6 ), swallows are coming back (April 24 – May 9 ), then Salsify, beans, beetroot, potherbs are planted for early harvest, seedlings of cauliflower, onions, celery, kohlrabi, broccoli, leeks, lettuce, beetroot, cabbage, pumpkin, carrot, radish, radish and celery are planted too.
When Ordinary Eve (May 6 to 18 ) and cherries (May 11-20 ) starts bloom beetroot and carrots for storage during the winter are sown, beans, Melissa, serotinous Brussels, cauliflowers, celery, yellow, and oregano sprouts are planted to protected grounds.

When the average daily temperature is above +10 ° C, after the ordinary olive bloom (May 17 to 29) for the autumn harvest, cauliflower, pumpkins, courgettes, pattypans, zucchini, beans are sown. Plant turnips cucumbers, tomatoes, medium early cabbage, marjoram in protected areas, plant and lemon balm and parsley seedlings. Let loosen the soil where vegetables were sown or planted. This helps regulate favorable for plants direction of moisture, air directions and treatment to kill weeds. Slow-emergence vegetable rows can be marked, this will be bring forward maintenance works. Longer-emergence is seeds of capsicums, artichokes, husk tomatoes, dills, parsnips, parsley, rhubarb, celery, asparagus and spinach. When you’re growing vegetables seedlings in boxes, don’t rush to conclude that the seeds sterile, because they can sprout after two weeks or even longer. To sprout earlier seeds are soaked and couched. Soaked or sprouted seeds are planted only in moist soil and are irrigated. Those areas who grow slow-emergence vegetables requires weekly scratch, by preventing the weeds take root, which at that time very intensively sprouts and grows. In addition, the moisture remains in the soil.

Vegetable seeds are inserted at different depth. Small carrots, parsley, celery, butterfly, summer savory, marjoram, oregano, cress seeds and other vegetables are inserted in small 1-2 cm depth, medium size – capsicum, beetroot, pumpkin, cabbage, parsnips, tomatoes, radishes, radish , Borago and other vegetables seeds are inserted in 2-3 cm depth, and larger courgette, peas, beans, asparagus seeds are inserted 3 to 5 cm in depth. Before seeding vegetables fertilize the prepared soil with organic fertilizers: for cucumbers, cabbages, potatoes use manure (60 to 80 kg/10 m 2) in conjunction with the insertion of mineral fertilizers, for tomatoes, beetroot, carrots, onions, radishes, leaf vegetables use compost (20 – 30 kg/10 m2) and mineral fertilizers. At the beginning of the month we have to complete planting of early potatoes and in the first decade of month finish planting entirety all potatoes. Sown and planted vegetables are mulched. In dry weather they should be watered.

Check already sprouted vegetables density. If the vegetable sprouted really dense they should be thinned out. Rarely growing vegetables are multiplexed with sprouts or soaked seeds. Thinned out vegetables can be fertilized with manure fertilizer solution by taking 40 g of superphosphate, 20 g of potassium chloride and 10 g of ammonium nitrate with 10 l water.

In late May, planting of late-emergence cabbages sprouts starts. After the shelters can be planted cucumbers, tomatoes and other vegetable sprouts that loves warmth. Cucumber seedlings intended for growing in a field can be raised in the greenhouse. In the first decade we plant cucumber and tomato seedlings to unheated polyethylene greenhouses. Supervise vegetables growing in the greenhouses. At the risk of frost, garden vegetables should be covered up, watered intensively with warmer water, there could be created smokescreen and earthed potato seedlings. Destroy more harmful pests and used to counter measures against the diseases. Gaps which eat cabbage, radishes and other vegetables similar to them, can be destroyed by wood ashes and tobacco dust. Cabbage white butterflies, and other tracks can be disposed by using entobacterin, against brassica, and carroty bulb fly – use to destroy carbophosphate or to deter naphthalenes, pour hot ash alkali (1 kg/10 1). Against vegetable sprouts black legs (blackroot) sprouts should be hold in 0.03 -0.05 percent. potassium permanganate solution to disinfect it, also mellow earth, thin out seedlings. Many vegetables deseeds can be destroyed by holding there seeds in hot water for 20 minutes followed by 2 – 3 min cool off with cold water, carrot seeds should be soaked in 52 to 53 ° C water from 15 to 20 minutes and then cool off with cold water, grain legumes (peas, beans, beans) seeds should be soaked for 4.5 hours from 25 to 30 ° C water, followed by 5 minutes at 50 ° C in water, then cool off with cold water.

This month the majority of annual flowers that have short growing seasons are planted in beds. Alyssum, marygold, Iberis, nemesias, eschscholzia, nasturtium, aromatic peas can be sown in beds. Before sowing peas it is advisable to soak seeds for at least several days. And then they grow quickly and evenly. Soaked peas sprouts in a week, and not soaked – after two weeks. In rainy summer they are less consistent. Seed germination remains for 4 years.

Alyssum grows best in sunny location, it blooms less in the shade. It’s not demanding for special soil and it’s not sensitive to Frost. The seeds mature in August. There are 3000 seeds per gram. They continue germination for 3 years. Sown they sprouts soon and starts blooming in 45 days. To prolong flowering, alyssum is cut at the end of the bloom. Then he re-blooms.

Iberis planted in the beds sprouts in a week, and the bloom starts only after two months and lasts until September. Seed germination remains for 2 – 3 years and there are 400 seeds per gram. Iberis grows better in sunny spot.

Nemesias are sown directly into beds or to the cold inspections at the end of April. Sprouts are thinned out. In late May they are planted in the flower garden. Plants sown directly in beds starts blooming two weeks later. The falling nemessias can be cut, then after a while they re-bloom again. They are planted 15 cm apart in flower garden, and thinned out. Pulled nursery stock can be planted.

Delphinium seeds are planted in beds in early May, when the spring comes early in late April. They can be sown and in autumn, through winter seeds ions, and quickly sprouts in spring. Fattened shoots must be thinned out leaving 10 – 15 cm distance between plants.
Ruth is sown directly into beds. This plant is very sensitive to transplantation.

Morning -glory will look beautiful planted in the balcony. This is climbing plant, grows from 2 to 2.5 m in height. It blooms white, pink, red, dark-blue. Morning-glory is planted in early May. Seedlings can’t stand graft. This plant should be equipped with restraint, or strings should be drop.

In early May, it’s not too late to sow halo, but they will start blooming two weeks later than those which were grown sprouts. From seedbeds peesonia sprouts are replanted to the flower garden. Before that, 2 – 3 days the hotbeds should be not covered overnight, the plants harden off. Before tearing up the shoots, soil requires a good watering. It’s better to plant in the evening or foggy day. They are planted 15- 20 cm apart.
Do not forget to sow helichrysum, cleft teardrop and other interesting and graceful grasses.

Gladioli are planted in a sunny spot. The soil for them must be well cultivated, manured, not sour (pH 7). Do not fertilize using fresh manure, because then gladioli often get fungal diseases. The soil is prepared in the autumn 5 kg over rotten manure is inserted to bonemeal 100 m2. In the spring the soil is loosen, and it’s added 5 kg of superphosphate to 100 m2.

Before planting corms are decorticated, soaked for two hours in a solution of potassium permanganate (10 g – 10 liters of water), or for 0.5 hours in 0.4 percent formalin solution. They are planted from 5 to 8 cm in the depth and in the lighter soil – in 10 cm depth. Dry soil before planting is watered. Planted, yet do not spouted gladioli should be not watered as watering rams down the soil, crust is formed, which is opaque to the air and roots grow poorly.

It’s best to plant clematis in early May. Excavated pit 60 x 60 cm is filled with over rotten manure, humous ground and added 100 g of superphosphate. It’s planted in 15 cm in depth. In such a depth roots of plant don’t overheat in summer and don’t freeze in winter.

Dahlias are planted in the first half of May. Soil is fertilized with over rotten manure (6 kg / m 2). It’s not recommended to fertilize with fresh manure in spring, because the dahlia will grow more in leaves and will bloom weak. When dahlias began to grow they are additional fertilized 3 – 4 times every 10 days, alternately in the slurry and mineral fertilizer mixture. In the absence of manure, a solution of ammonium nitrate can be used (25 g of -10 liters of water). Blooming dahlias are not fertilized with nitrogen fertilizers.

In May it is not too late to install flower garden lawn.

In early May, Gladioli are prepared to bloom in late October festivities. Since the beginning of May they are stored at 2 – 4 ° C, in 70 percent air humidity, in cold storage or refrigerator. 3 weeks before planting they are heat-treated. Shells are cleaned down, they are placed a single row to wooden boxes with mesh-bottomed rare wire, sprouts directed up. They are arranged in a bright, warm place (28 to 33 ° C, humidity 60 percent). At warm and dry environment corms buds within 3 – 4 weeks will grow up to 5 cm. Roots poorly developed in dry environments, so they don’t break during the planting and planting corms quickly takes root after. If the roots are damaged or hacked the plants gets poor. They are planted in the beginning of July.