Horse manure for peonies. Feeding peonies for abundant flowering

Peonies need to be fed both in spring and autumn. are carried out in order to strengthen the plants and prepare for winter. In the spring, peonies need additional nutrition for active growth, successful entry into the budding phase and lush flowering that pleases the eye. The composition of pion fertilizing in spring depends on the age of the plant.

Peonies in the first 2 years after planting. Root and foliar top dressing for growth and development of plants.
Blooming peonies. Three top dressings for flowering.
Mature plants aged 8-10 years.
Watering a peony.
How to feed peonies for lush flowering in spring. Video tips.

FEEDING OF PIONIES IN THE FIRST 2 YEARS AFTER LANDING

During the first two years, young peonies do not need root fertilizing with mineral fertilizers if the soil was fertilized well enough when planting. At this age, it is enough to water, loosen and weed peonies. Peonies should be loosened very carefully: next to the bush, the soil is loosened to a depth of 5 cm, and at a distance of 20 cm from the bush - to a depth of 10 cm. Loosening is especially necessary after rains and heavy watering.

And foliar top dressing in the first year after planting may be as follows:

Urea solution: 40-50 g per 10 liters of water. With the help of a garden sprayer, the treatment is carried out in the spring, as soon as the plants wake up and begin to grow.
Peonies are re-treated after 10-15 days. This time, 1 table is added to the urea solution. trace elements.
The third top dressing is done in another 10-15 days. The composition of the solution: 2 tab. trace elements per 10 liters of water, without urea.

At the same time during the 2nd and 3rd feeding, you can pour peonies under the root with one of the solutions to stimulate the growth of the root system:

Sodium humate: 5 g per 10 liters of water,
Heteroauxin: 2 tablets per 10 liters of water.

In the first 2 years young plant it is important to develop a strong root system, get stronger, form a strong bush. Therefore, in addition to top dressing, in the literature it is advised to remove peony buds in the first 2 years after planting. Abundant flowering can be expected only in the 3rd year.

THREE FERTILIZERS FOR FLOWERING

So, at the age of 3 years, peonies, as a rule, begin to delight the eye with lush flowering. By this time, the plant usually has 10-15 stems. Now the plant needs regular root feeding with mineral fertilizers. For the entire growing season (from spring to autumn), there should be at least three of them. It is important to observe the dosage and terms of processing plants. Overfeeding is just as undesirable as undernutrition.

First spring dressing

Time: early spring, during the snowmelt or immediately after.
Composition: 10-15 g of nitrogen and 15-20 g of potassium per plant, urea can be used.
How to feed: fertilizers are scattered around the bush or embedded in the groove around it.

Second spring dressing

Time: in the budding phase
Composition: 10 g of nitrogen, 15-20 g of phosphorus, 10-15 g of potassium per 10 liters of water. Dosage - for 1 plant.

Third top dressing

Time: 14 days after flowering.
Composition: 15-20 g of phosphorus, 10-15 g of potassium per 10 liters of water. Dosage - for 1 plant.
How to feed: in the form of an aqueous solution, under the root.

WHAT TO FEED PEONY AT THE AGE OF 8-10 YEARS

Peonies in "advanced" age need to increase the dose of mineral fertilizers in the composition of dressings by 1.5 times. At the age of 8-10 years, peonies are recommended to be fed with slurry.

Feeding time: in the budding phase, once.
Ingredients: mullein/bird droppings + mineral fertilizers.

Solution recipe:

Fresh mullein (1 liter) is diluted in 10 liters of water. Instead, you can use bird droppings (500 ml) - for 10 liters of water. 40-50 g of superphosphate are added to the solution and infused for 10-12 days. Before use, the solution is diluted with water 1:1.

How to feed:

A groove 10-15 cm deep is dug around the bush at a distance of 20 cm from it. 1 bucket of fertilizer is used per plant.

Important! Root top dressing is carried out so that the solutions do not fall on the rhizome of the peony.

WATERING PION

Peony loves moisture, and he needs abundant watering:

during budding (before flowering),
during the formation of renewal buds (starting from mid-summer).

Watering frequency: 1 time in 8-10 days.

Amount of water: 3-4 buckets per 1 adult bush.

After watering: the earth is loosened and mulched.

Watering peonies is best in the evening. During flowering, it is important to ensure that water drops do not fall on the flowers.

Such a scheme for feeding and watering a peony is given in the book “Peonies. My blooming garden.

How to feed peonies for lush flowering in spring?

But it would be unfair to refer to one source, so we decided to watch videos on youtube. In them, flower growers share their experience in caring for plants.

Water-soluble fertilizers for flowers: Fertik, Kemira, Terrace Lux

Mid-May is the time to feed the peonies. At the peony, the root is located deep enough, and in order for the fertilizer to reach the roots, about 30 centimeters from the bush, you need to make holes about 15 cm deep.

Kemira, Fertika, Terrace Lux - complex fertilizers for flower crops in granules with good set trace elements. They have both nitrogen, and potassium, and phosphorus, so necessary for the early spring flowering of peonies. It is enough to make 3-4 holes around the bush, and pour half a tablespoon of fertilizer into each.

Important: Before any top dressing of the peony, you must first water the soil with water.

There is also such an option. You can prepare an aqueous solution of the listed complex fertilizers: 1 tablespoon of fertilizer "Fertika" or "Terrace Suite" for 10 liters of water. Make a solution of trace elements root dressing or spraying on the leaves. Processing can be carried out twice: as soon as the "spouts" of plants appear from the ground in early spring and during budding, just before flowering. Feeding consumption per 1 bush - 10 liters.

Mullein infusion + mineral fertilizers

2 weeks before flowering it is useful to feed peonies with mullein infusion, diluting it with water in a ratio of 1 to 20, with the addition of potassium-phosphorus fertilizer.

Humus, "Baikal", "Gumi"

In the spring, when the stems just appeared above the ground, the soil must be cleared of weeds and loosened shallowly. Old peonies can be sprayed Bordeaux mixture(1%) to prevent fungal diseases.

It is useful to sprinkle the soil under the bushes with humus (a few handfuls are enough), and then pour water over it. You can make top dressing with mineral fertilizers: azofoska, superphosphate, Baikal solution, herbal infusion, Gumi solution.

Second top dressing carried out after 10 days. And then - in the phase of bud formation.

Solutions of mineral fertilizers

In the spring, as soon as the first shoots appear prepare an aqueous solution of mineral fertilizers: 15 g of ammonium nitrate per 10 liters of water.

At the stage of budding or during the flowering of peonies: 7 g of ammonium nitrate, 5 g of potassium salt, 10 g of superphosphate.

After flowering - 5 g of potassium salt and 10 g of superphosphate.

In the indicated proportion, aqueous solutions of mineral fertilizers are prepared and introduced into holes dug 20 cm from the bush, 10-15 cm deep.

Bread top dressing

One loaf of black bread is cut into slices and soaked in 10 liters of water. Put in the sun, cover with a lid so that the pieces of bread are buried in water (you can under the press). The bread will release a large amount of acids into the water, which will be beneficial for the growth of peonies. Insist 1-2 days.

Sources of information in this section: Youtube video channels.

Luxurious flowering of peonies is impossible without their timely top dressing. The most relevant are spring top dressing. It is they who are responsible for the number of buds laid and for their size.

Preparing peonies for spring feeding

In the spring, as soon as the snow melts, trunk circle peonies must be freed from dry leaves and other debris.

Stepping back 30-40 from the center of the bush, you need to slightly loosen the ground.
Next, you should monitor the soil moisture and if it dries too quickly after the snow melts, water the peonies once every 7-10 days.
At the same time, you need to make sure that the earth is just wet, and does not turn into a swamp.
Peonies really do not like stagnant water and can die if waterlogged.

What spring dressings are needed for peonies

Peonies respond gratefully to both mineral and organic fertilizers. Minerals are sold in any garden shop, and each summer resident makes organic independently. Some gardeners mix organic and mineral complexes and this is also quite acceptable.

In addition to top dressing at the root, peonies also like top dressing on the leaf, when the bushes are sprayed with a healing solution from above.

Scheme of spring root dressing of peonies

First dressing

It is carried out at the moment when red sprouts of peonies have already appeared from the ground and they have grown to a height of 2-3 cm. This usually happens in late April or early May.

At this time, cow or horse dung is scattered around each bush on wet ground, necessarily well-rotted.
A little nitrophoska or any complex fertilizer for garden flowers is added to the manure.
For 1 kg of manure, 100 g of store fertilizer is taken.
This mixed fertilizer for an average peony bush requires 300 grams (1 liter can).
The fertilizer mixes well with the top layer of earth under the peony.
Further, the place of feeding is mulched with humus peat.

Second top dressing

It is done 15-20 days after the first. At this time, the peonies are already budding. This time, top dressing is made liquid and 2-3 liters of fertilizer are poured under each bush. How it is prepared:

Mix one part cow dung and 3 parts water. The infusion is aged for 10 days for fermentation. The resulting fermented mass is mixed until smooth and diluted with another ten parts of water. This solution is called mullein.
10 liters of mullein are taken and 2 tablespoons of any fertilizer with phosphorus and 1 tablespoon of any fertilizer with potassium are added to it. Phosphate fertilizers: superphosphate, ammophos, diammophos, bone meal, etc. potash fertilizers: potassium chloride, potassium humate, potassium sulfate, potassium magnesia, etc.

Third top dressing

Although it is done after the peonies have faded, the luxurious flowering of peonies next year also greatly depends on it. Top dressing is done on wet ground and the bushes are watered with this solution: 10 liters of water + 30 g of superphosphate + 15 g of potassium sulfate.

Scheme of spring top dressing of peonies on a leaf

Peonies are fed along the leaf by spraying a special nutrient solution onto the plant. A garden sprayer or a regular home spray gun is used. In order for the fertilizer to linger on the leaves, and not drain from them, half a teaspoon of liquid is added to each liter of the prepared solution. detergent for dishes or a special thick solution, which in garden centers sold under the name "Adhesive". Peonies are fed on the leaf in the late afternoon and in dry weather.

First dressing

The best time for leaf feeding is mid-May. For fertilizer, water and urea are mixed. Water requires 10 liters, urea - 50 g.

Second top dressing

Done two weeks after the first. For her, 10 liters of water, 2 tablespoons of urea and 1/2 of a teaspoon of complex flower fertilizer. Fertilizers are sold in any store and are called “Complex” or “Microfertilizers”. They include everything the flowers need trace elements.

Third top dressing

It is carried out 14 days after the second. Now, only the previously purchased microfertilizer is diluted in ten liters of water, and it takes 1 teaspoon or 2 tablets already.

Except spring dressings, peonies also require that they are not forgotten in the fall. This video will tell you how to feed peonies in the fall and how to prepare them for the winter.

Many hobby gardeners prefer peonies to all other flowers. Their various shades, delicate smell, long flowering delight the owners every year. In one place, plants can be almost half a century without a transplant. So don't they deserve to be pampered with food? Indeed, when the necessary substances are introduced into the soil, peonies on next year will grow strong and strong, will give even more flowers.

During the warm season, adult peonies are fed three times. Below we will separately consider the question of what fertilizers should be applied to the soil during plant transplantation.

So, top dressing is used in spring, summer and autumn.

Spring application is carried out in several stages. For the first time, fertilizers are added as soon as the sprouts appear and get a little stronger. Depending on the climate zone, in Russia it occurs in late April or early May. The purpose of this top dressing is to ensure that the bush grows actively.

After about 3 weeks, fertilizers are applied next time. The second dressing should provide future flowers with all the necessary substances.

The third dressing is done a couple of weeks after the peonies have faded. The plant needs to recover.

Please note - top dressing is best done when the sun is setting, or when the day turned out to be cloudy. This way you will avoid burning the leaves. Dry top dressing should be scattered on wet ground.

Is it really necessary?

Of course, peonies can not be fed. Even so, they will sprout and bloom every year. But in order for these spectacular plants to become a real decoration of the garden, and each bush is literally drowning in flowers, it is worth making an effort. Moreover, every amateur grower in stock, as a rule, has cow or chicken manure, complex inorganic fertilizers. Do not spare the labors - and the peonies will thank you.

How to feed peonies in autumn, spring?

Spring subcortex is one of the most important. It is advisable to add both organic and inorganic fertilizers to the soil.

For the 1st top dressing fit:

manure;
nitrophoska;
wood ash.

They are scattered around the bush, and then the earth is shallowly dug up or simply loosened and watered abundantly. This will allow the plant to grow green mass.

Many gardeners find it easier to get chicken manure than cow manure. Chicken is also great. About a half-liter jar of manure is poured into a bucket of water, in a couple of weeks the infusion will be ready. It must be diluted with water in a ratio of 1:3.

During this period, when the bush is just starting to grow, it justifies itself well next fertilizer for peonies: a bag of dry yeast is dissolved in a 3-liter jar of water, a little sugar is added. A day later, the fermented liquid is mixed with 5-6 liters of water and the plants are watered.

During the 2nd feeding, peonies should receive:

potassium;
phosphorus.

Fertilizers are purchased in specialized stores. You can prepare a solution according to the instructions, but it is even better to dilute potassium and phosphorus (respectively, 20 and 40 g) in a bucket where cow dung has already been infused. For 1 peony bush, 3 liters of this mixture will be enough.

During the 3rd feeding, also bred in a bucket of mullein infusion:

potassium sulfate;
superphosphate.

Again, 3 liters for each peony will be enough.

Types of fertilizers and rules for their application

Peonies need both organic and inorganic fertilizers. It is important to keep on the farm not only manure, but also compost and peat.

Ahead of time, before the start of the season, it is advisable to stock up on superphosphate. When choosing complex fertilizers in the store, give preference to "Kemira". It can be applied up to 3 times during the warm season. During the 1st top dressing, "Kemira-Universal" is introduced, the 2nd and 3rd times - "Kemira-Combi".

In addition, such fertilizer as "Baikal EM-1" is popular. It nourishes the plant, improves soil structure. It is better to give preference to "Baikal" in the fall - to bring it along with compost, mulching the ground around the bush for the winter.

If you are using an infusion of mullein or chicken manure, it is recommended to add a little wood ash- to enhance the effect.

Rules for feeding after flowering

By fertilizing peonies in autumn, the florist will help the plant survive the winter, accumulate the necessary substances for flowering next spring. At this time, again, potassium and phosphorus will be required. Use both fertilizers in dry form and their liquid solution. To do this, 15 g of mineral fertilizers are added to 1 bucket of water.

When fertilizing, you need to try so that neither dry granules nor the solution get on the neck of the plant.

How and with what to fertilize peonies in the summer?

In summer, adult peony bushes are already fertilized, starting from 3-4 years after planting. Do this in the second half of June, after the end of flowering. During this period, a complex mineral fertilizer is best suited, it can be added to a diluted infusion of cow manure.

Soil requirements for growing a plant

For all their undemanding nature, peonies still prefer certain soils.

If the land on the site contains a lot of sand, then the foliage of the plant will develop well, but the peony will give few flowers.

Heavy, clay soil? The peony will grow very slowly, although it will please you later with large beautiful flowers.

But the loam, and even if it is properly fertilized, will enable the plant to express itself in all its glory.

The bush should receive a sufficient amount of moisture, as well as the period of growth and flowering, and after its completion. At the same time, the water should not stagnate so that the roots do not rot.

Moderately alkaline soil for peony is preferable to neutral and acidic soil.

Since transplanting a peony is a lot of work, it is best to immediately choose a permanent place for it. With proper feeding, it can grow there for several decades. When preparing the site, the earth is dug up well. This is done especially carefully if the soil is clayey or simply very compacted. Plant roots need good drainage.

If you have removed one of the peonies, it is preferable not to plant another here, but to choose a different place for it. Depleted land, possibly infected with infection - not the best option in order to place a young peony in it.

In addition, there is a risk that you did not dig out all the roots of the "predecessor", so 2 bushes will subsequently mix and interfere with each other.

It is best to do as they do in professional floricultural farms. It is necessary to dig a hole 60x60 cm. Put drainage at the bottom - crushed stone, brick fragments and other materials are suitable.

Humus, peat, manure, 350-400 g of superphosphate should be added to the removed soil layer, the same amount of bone meal, half as much potassium, and for acidic soils- also dolomites. Well, if it is possible to put a little, up to 40 g, copper sulfate - this is very favorable for the roots.

Nutrient soil is poured into the pits a few weeks before peonies are planted in them. The optimal time for landing is the 2nd and 3rd decade of August.

If you take care of the peony throughout the season, following all the rules, and regularly feed it, next year there will be more flowers than ever before.

During the growing season (spring) it is important to pay attention to your peonies and they will delight you with unusually lush flowers. This article will tell you about how to feed peonies and in what time frame.
In one place, peonies can long time grow well and bloom profusely. To do this, you need to carefully care for the bushes of peonies. In the third year of plant development, when peonies are about to bloom, in addition to regular watering and loosening, they need to be additionally fed.

Three times a season, we carry out foliar feeding of peonies, which will allow the peony to delight you with friendly and long flowering throughout the season. Spraying is carried out with any complex mineral fertilizer (for example, Ideal) on the leaves.
For efficiency, add a little laundry soap or washing powder(1 tablespoon per 10 liters of solution), so the nutrient solution is better to linger on the surface of the leaves,
Foliar top dressing is desirable to perform in the evening or in cloudy weather.

Bread feed. Experienced summer residents consider this top dressing the most effective. She prepares like this: In a bucket with warm water soak rye bread (about half a loaf), add a glass of sugar, leave to swell for three hours. Pour the peony bushes with this solution.
Yeast feed. 100 gr. Dissolve yeast in a bucket of warm water. We leave for 20 minutes. Water the peony with this solution.
Chicken manure. Take 1 part chicken manure and 25 parts water. Leave in a warm place to infuse for two weeks. We dilute the resulting solution with more water in a ratio of 1: 3, add a handful of wood ash.

By following our advice, fertilizing your flowers in a timely manner, you will grow strong and healthy peonies that will delight you with chic and abundant flowering. But remember that in addition to top dressing, sufficient watering and loosening of the soil around the peony bushes is necessary.

Competent top dressing of peonies. Proper feeding of peonies is the key to full development and lush flowering for many years. Despite the fact that these ornamental plants are considered unpretentious, the introduction of additional nutrition significantly improves their appearance and accelerates growth. Peonies require different nutrients at different stages of their lives. Since flowering usually does not begin until the third year, the feeding of newly planted plants is different from that which they will need in their more mature age. Feeding young peonies. Until the age of three, properly planted peony bushes do well without additional fertilizers - you don’t have to worry about root dressing at this time. But in the first years of life, there is an active build-up of not only green mass, but also underground organs. Therefore, peonies will be useful foliar top dressing, which is usually divided into three stages: 1. spraying with urea at a concentration of 5 grams per liter of water; carried out in the spring after germination; 2. after about two weeks, a small amount of microelements is added to carbamide - one tablet per bucket of water is enough; 3. The third time is sprayed with some trace elements - two tablets per bucket of water. If, during the planting of peonies, it was not laid required amount fertilizers, they will have to be fed in the first year of life. Do this at least three times per season: 1. in the spring, when shoots are just starting to grow; 2. at the very beginning of bud formation; 3. at the end of flowering, when new buds are laid. For the first feeding, you will need 100 g of nitrophoska for each square meter landings. The second dressing will be the same. For the third, mainly phosphorus and potassium are used. For example, 25 g of superphosphate, 10 - potassium sulfate or 15 potassium magnesia. A mullein solution with the addition of a small amount of mineral fertilizers will also have a beneficial effect on young peonies that have not yet begun to bloom. To prepare such nutritional cocktail you will need: - fresh cow dung - 1 bucket; - water - 6 buckets; - wood ash - 0.5 kg; - simple superphosphate - 200 g. Manure is diluted with water and placed in the sun for fermentation. After about two weeks, when the mixture ferments well, ash and superphosphate are poured into it. Everything is thoroughly mixed. Immediately before use, top dressing should be diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 2. But, using this recipe, it should be remembered that it is not suitable for the second half of summer - pion tissues can become too loose, and their susceptibility to gray rot will also increase. Feeding adult peonies. In the third year of their life, peonies begin to bloom - the need for nutrition changes, and the supply of fertilizers laid down during planting is depleted by that time. Therefore, peonies must be given at least three top dressings per season. The very first top dressing is done in early spring, you can still in the snow. This is the only top dressing that is performed without embedding. Together with snow water, mineral fertilizers are quickly absorbed into the soil and sink to a considerable depth, since evaporation from the upper layers of the soil is minimal at this time. All subsequent additions of nutrients should be made deep - accessible to most of the roots. In order for fertilizers to be delivered to the peonies, and not to the surrounding weeds, experts recommend applying them to the holes, which are made half a bayonet of a shovel, stepping back 50 cm from the bush. At the same time, plants should be watered abundantly - before fertilizing and immediately after it. The composition and volume of applied fertilizers largely depend on the condition of the soil, and on the age of the plants, even on weather conditions. For example, on sandy soil poorly filled with organic matter, the introduction of large doses chemical fertilizers can cause inhibition of pions. In such cases, it is recommended that all top dressings, except for the very first one, be applied fractionally, dividing each into two terms. The gap between them should be about two weeks, and the amount of fertilizer should be half the calculated rate. In dry and hot weather, all dressings should be applied in liquid form, but in rainy weather, granules can be used. On the sandy soils pions are very useful boron-magnesium fertilizers applied in small doses - no more than 5 g per square meter. They are especially needed if the soil has not been filled with a sufficient amount of organic matter. For the first top dressing, nitrogen-potassium, it is convenient to use potassium and ammonium nitrate in a ratio of 2: 1 or a mixture of potassium sulfate with ammonium nitrate. Enough 60 g of such top dressing per square meter. Another option is 15 g potassium and 10 g nitrogen fertilizer under each bush. The second top dressing, nitrogen-potassium-phosphorus, can be done with nitrophoska - 80 g per square meter, or with mullein at a dilution of 1:10 with the addition of potassium sulfate and superphosphate. Per square meter is used: - mullein - 1 bucket of mortar; - superphosphate - 40 g; - potassium sulphate - 20 g Good results at this time are also given by complex fertilizers "Kemira-combi" and "Kemira-universal", which must be used in accordance with the instructions on the packages. The next top dressing, phosphorus-potassium, is done after flowering is completed. A mixture of "Kemira-combi" and potassium monophosphate is well suited. In late September or early October, under peonies, it can be useful to add one handful of wood ash or 100 g of bone meal per square meter, pouring them out randomly and covering them with mulch.