The maintenance of plants on a balcony

Being rooms within winter the plants intended for an ornament of balconies, should be preliminary prepared for cultivation on air. Them bear on a balcony with approach of warm days and frost-free nights. For protection of roots of plants against drying and burns, and also for constant humidifying plants, pots with plants drive in boxes, on 2/3 filled by a moss, peat, sawdust or sand. Water, evaporating from such ground, sates with a moisture air, that favorably affects growth of a ground part of plants. That roots not germly through a water-waste aperture also have not gone deep into the ground of a box, under a bottom of a pot it is possible to put a circle of plywood. If such way is very combined, plants can be exposed on a balcony in own pots, but thus it is necessary especially will take care about them watering, and dark pots to protect from solar beams, for example decorating their light paper or having painted a pot in light color. Watch, that leaves of plants did not lean to разогретому solar heat to a windowpane.

To land flowers in balcony a box it is necessary not too densely that there was a place for development of new runaways. The magnificent, well generated plants or plants which develop the greater vegetative weight can be landed in one number. The most good results at cultivation of colors in boxes reach landing of the strong, well developed sprouts. The majority conservatory can be landed in a stage budding, landing make after the period of possible frosts in cloudy weather or in the evening. After landing plentifully water. Plants can be grown up by crop of seeds directly in a ground of a box. In the ground superficial grooves, and after crop are done, seeds fall asleep finely sifted ground or sand. After crop having watered make accurately to not admit washing away of seeds. Before occurrence of shoots it is necessary to cover boxes a paper or glass.

Preliminary not prepared plants in the first days quite often strongly suffer from solar burns, differences of temperatures. Stalks, leaves and buds can wither and even to be lost. To bear plants on a balcony it is better in cloudy day that plants have not suffered from sharp change of conditions, they are preliminary necessary for tempering in well aired room. On balconies in the first days, especially at midday, plants during shadow, for example, using for this purpose the newspaper. In some days an original screen clean. In boxes for summer of a plant have freely that they could expand in all the parties. In the rest leaving same, as well as in rooms. Since August, start cleaning indoor plants from balconies. First time of a plant can suffer from lack of fresh air and dryness, therefore it is necessary to air rooms on a regular basis. Gradually plants get used to new conditions.

Gardening of balconies

Gardening of balconies is the most simple and accessible way of an ornament of your dwelling. Beautifully framed and balconies are effectively allocated with greens and colors of a window on a background of walls and decorate buildings. Densely effuse plants on a balcony look not only is elegant, but thus also weaken street noise, partially absorbing a sound, I clear air of a soot and a dust, and in hot day will weaken a sunlight. Special charm is represented with the indoor plants which have been born in the summer on a balcony. For warm days of summer they turn to large bright copies, and with approach of colds transfer back to a room. Thus fresh air, a warm wind and solar beams is necessary to plants.

Growing up plants in boxes, it is possible to transform a balcony in green pergola, and before each window to create a tiny flower bed. Balcony boxes make from various materials: a tree, plastic, metal - a choice for you, the main thing they should be spacious enough. The recommended sizes: thickness 1,5 - 2 sm, height 15 - 20 sm, width not less than 20 see Choosing, remember, that in small boxes in length less than 1 m the ground on open air quickly dries up.

Flower boxes can be made their dry fur-tree or pine boards. At formation a box for greater durability on its internal corners put racks section 4? 4 sm, from below under a bottom two cross-section rods beat the same section. For a drain of superfluous water in day of a box make apertures in diameter of 1 sm through everyone 15 see there are boxes of more complex designs: with the spare tank for water that the ground did not dry up, and also with pallets for running off of water.





Fastening of flower boxes should be made strongly and reliably. The strongest fastening is carried out by means of special metal arms. They can be used and in the event that windows open outside as the box in this case fastens below outwardly a window sill. If the window opens inside of a premise, the box with plants can be established directly on an external window sill. The box thus necessarily strongly fastens to a window sill, for example by means of metal crampon. That the box stood horizontally, under it are enclosed oblique wooden scantling. On balconies with metal lattices at windows boxes can be established from the interior of a fencing, on a floor of a balcony, for example on flower supports. High plants place in the boxes costing on a floor, with a wall, there, where more than natural protection against damages.

If you have enough place on a balcony it is possible to construct an original rack of containers, having arranged it along a wall on all height. According to your desire it can be a rack from forepart or decorative boxes-containers. In containers it is possible to place the bought flower sprouts or small flowerpot with indoor plants. Besides, such design not only saves a place, in it it is possible to change easily according to your desire flowerpots with colors. Beautifully look on balconies hanging in special baskets or ceramic ornamental flowerpot ampelnes plants. For their fastening it is possible to use special arms with supports for pots or wicker ornamental flowerpot.

At cultivation in boxes of twisted plants for them establish special support in the form of directing cords, lattices, arches, etc. which give a necessary direction to twisted runaways and create the conceived form of gardening. Presence on balconies of vertical gardening, as a rule, creates a background for flower registration, selection of its assortment and color scale.

Using the resulted examples in your flower box on a balcony it is possible to arrange a tiny garden, having landed at once some kinds of plants. From external edge of a box it is possible to land ampelnes plants that their hanging down stalks decorated a box. On the center of a box any low plants land, it can be as pottery plants or pergola. And from internal edge balcony a box it is possible to land any twisted plants (for example, an ivy) by means of which it is possible darkened a balcony.

Basis of good development of plants is the healthy ground rich with nutrients. The fresh friable earthen mix with addition of sand is most suitable. Sometimes add the crushed peat, especially in that case when boxes are located on the solar party. Peat absorbs in itself an excessive moisture, keeps it, not souring and not rotting. The box is in regular intervals filled with the ground so that the surface of a ground was below edges of a box on 1 - 2 see Densely to stamp the ground does not follow, a deposit of the ground is reached by stirring of a box at its filling. In balcony boxes the ground is quickly exhausted, therefore plants already through 2 - 3 weeks after landing are necessary to feed up on a regular basis (time in 10 - 14 days) complex fertilizers, and every spring the ground in boxes needs to be updated. For winter of a plant from boxes are cleaned, the ground is loosened and in such kind remains for the winter. In the spring the part of the top layer leaves and replaced fresh. As plants in boxes are usually landed very densely, to bring fertilizer in a loose it is not recommended.

The Most convenient forms additional fertilizing for balcony colors - liquid and sticks of long action. Special care of a plant demand to itself during flowering, during this period top dressing with the maintenance of phosphorus is necessary for them.

Interesting plants on the balcony

Nasturtium. Beautiful one plant. Stems and leaves flower juicy. There is a shrub height of 20 - 30 cm and C3-up to 2.5 m. Leaves be thyroid. Stylish flower with shportsem reach 7 cm in diameter and have a pleasant fragrance. The main colours-from yellow to brown. Abundant fruit from June until frost. The fertile soil of flowering rare, but large and bright flowers. The fruit triangular, dinosaurs, and growing apart. By multiply seeds. Plants heat, moisture and light-requiring. Seeds sown in May immediately for a permanent seat on the slots 3 - 5 pc. 25-30 cm soil should be light, rich in phosphorus, is wetted. Earth, the boxes must be attracted and weeding.

Nasturtium contains antibiotic tropeolin, sulfur dioxide essential oil, vitamin C. Nastoy of leaves are like antibiotic. Lotion prevents precipitation from nasturtium and strengthens the hair roots. All parts of the plant have a pleasant taste sharp, similar to the taste of tomatoes. The leaves are used fresh. They add variety to summer salads or as a seasoning for the second dishes. Finely cut flower attached sweetish-heady aroma and taste of summer salads, cold appetizers, garnishes. The green (unripe) fruit added as a marinated in spices.

Parsley multi-Cut subshrub height of 15 - 20 cm, has leaves in a complicated manner folding various shades of green. Plants can be grown not only outdoors, but also used as a decorative plant room. For distillation green in winter usually use parsley roots, which were sent in November. If roots long, the bottom of the top cut off and the lower part be harded, started planting, or roots stand. Parsley grown in rows of boxes or flower pots average. Soil mixture made of peat land and bees (1:1). The distance between the roots when planting 5 cm head root should be at 1.5 to 2 cm above the soil surface. The renovation of the plant water with 1 week. Green is growing rapidly at a temperature of 20 to 22 ° C.
Growing parsley in loggias sow the seeds from 15 to 20 April. Boxes with soil mixture shed hot water and sow the seeds for a distance of 12 cm from each other. Planting of water with small portions through the day, morning and evening. Parsley on the content of minerals, particularly important as iron, potassium, ranked first among vegetables. Vitamin C Parsley 10 times more than in a green salad. Much of the phosphorus, calcium. Green parsley add in the various dishes, used to improve appetite and digestion.

Calendula pharmacies (Marigold) - one herbaceous plant height of 20-75 cm, is a multibranch powerful bushes. Flowers and uvular tube to a specific smell, collected in the basket. The colours of bright yellow flowers and orange tones. Deflorate heads should remove some heads can be left for seeds. Cold resistance, male and frugal plants. Sow seeds in the ground in April. The essential oils in flowers buds contain vitamin C, coloring substance kalenduin, Juniperus, tanning agents. Gather calendula flower in bloom, dried in the shade and keep in closed railway banks. Calendula can be used to give flavor to soups and cooked meat. Sunflower calendula used as a food dye. Setting apply to occur with flu, and stomatitis. The pack of flowers healing wounds and bruises.

Mangold (leaf beet). cold resistance biennial plant. Depending on the spray stalk his divided into red-, inadequate, and green- silverness- stalked. Before sowing the seeds soaked for 2 to 3 days in a wet cloth. Seeds sow 1 - May 10 immediately in a box in the loggias or on the balcony. Before planting soil shed cold water and spread to a depth of 2 to 2.5 cm at a distance of 12 to 15 cm apart. Prior to germinate crops water with warm water 1 to 2 days. In the fall before frost from mangolda cutting all large leaves, well-cast and in-plant capacity for the production of parsley. Plant water with 1 week abundantly. Leaves and Prunus mangolda, used in food contains a lot of valuable substances : proteins, sugars, minerals and vitamins, provitamin A-carotene. The greens juicy, nice for color and taste. The leaves are added to salads, Saturdays, Oman, soups, and the stem to boil or to fry and drink as accompaniment. In medicine, the herb used to lower blood pressure. Leaves from mangolda major growing large outlet. The more they cut, the obilnee they grow.

Broken tree (American aloe) - succulented plant height up to 3 m. erect stem, covered with the remnants of dead at the bottom of the leaves. Leaves Oh, glucose, with sharp toothed, up to 50 cm, matted orange-green or stiff. On the edge of the sheet is folded upward swing. In the room a little blooms. In the summer irrigation recommended strengthened. Winter provided at 12 - 14 ° C. Young plants transplant every year, old in 2 - 3 years in the soil out of the bees, soft earth and sand. His multiplicated sea from July to August in the spring or late in the sand. It shoots chop pieces of 12 cm and a length to dry in air for days. Before the water with roots occasionally. Sok soil contains biologically active substances such as lektin, the vast growth of cancer cells. For juice leaves are grown and cut vertically down any receptacle or reduced or squeezing. It is also used to treat sores, wounds, inflammatory processes inside and centuries in the treatment of bronchitis and tuberculosis, diseases throat and larynx.

Melissa lemon-long medicinal plants. Stalks straight unguent. Flowers are white in the upper leaf axils. Melissa sow seeds of the plants at the beginning of March. A small box filled soil mixture with warm water shed and to a depth of 0.5 cm sow the seeds dry. Prior to germinate in the soil, spray 1 - 2 days. Plant seedlings to the country in April-May. When the plants reach a height of 20-25 cm and flower buds begin to appear, it must pinch them back. When the plants reach a height of 40-50 cm, cutting it together with the stem and leaves 10 to 12 see such a beautiful way to reach a large bush. Its leaves contain essential oils that give strong and pleasant lemon smell and taste bitter-sweet. The leaves also contain vitamin C, carotene, tanning agents. In traditional medicine infusions balm applied for heart disease, shortness of breath, insomnia, nervousness, gout, to lower blood pressure. The leaves and young twigs used in fresh and dried form as musk flavoring to mushrooms, fish, game, added to salads and drinks

The types of ferns

Most in the room following a growing ferns.

Venerin hair-maidenhair fern, towels foliage resemble female Bourouba. The leaves are thin, prosvechivayuschie, light green, dvazhdyperistye, up to 35 centimetres of the thin black stems. Wood broad segments, with short okruglo-zubchatoy top. Sporangii are at the edges of the segments. White creeping. The rest is missing. Requires warm moist conditions, the best increase in the penumbra. Bobcats division bush and disputes. Used to cool and green space with high humidity. There are also variety : maidenhair wedge; Maidenhair broad-leaves which resemble shining birch; Maidenhair.

Asplenium lukovitsenosny-plant with beautiful, large, slightly ponikayuschimi leaves. Leaves peristo-rassechennye smaller share. Sporangii udlinenno-ovalnoy forms, one on the underside of each share. Stem leaves glossy, dark. Spring on the upper side of the leaves are kidney ousted. It germinates in the maternal plants, forming tiny rasteniya-detki of roots and some small leaves. It should be kept in shade and regular watering room and spraying. Another variety-asplenium remarkable cluster-drawn mechevidnymi, wavy edges on the leaves of up to 75 cm in length collected in a wide outlet.

Nefrolepis uplifting is the neprihotlivy of ferns. Plants with root and beautiful dugoobrazno-ponikayuschimi, cirrus leaves, which can reach one meter in length and 10 cm in width, short avium, growing beam. White form shoots resemble whip used for micropropagation. Their prisypayut land and the establishment of the young plants are 3 - 4 sheet, are segregated and plant in small pots. Wood udlinenno-treugolnye share, on the bottom of the rows are sporangii round. Nefrolepis makes shade, dry air temperature changes. Removed many forms and varieties prevalent in Simferopol and room culture. They are leaf size and the degree of their rassechennosti. The beauty or kruzhevnoy Boston fern.

Pteris Crete and pteris ferns serebristo-pyatnisty-surface height up to two metres short rhizomes, covered with flakes of which beam back many leaves with rare lentovidno-udlinennymi share. The leaves are beautiful peristo-rassechennye, Eucalyptus. Sporangii located along the edges of the underside of the leaf. For pterisa needed moderate temperature, high humidity (regular watering and spraying), shading from direct sunlight. Easily propagated by dividing rhizomes and disputes with the transplant.



Platitserium loserogy

Platitserium loserogy (sem. mnogonozhkovyh), a major epifitny very unusual fern leaf decorative forms. The leaves are of two types : sporonosnye and sterile. First-length 50-70 cm, wedge-shaped at the base, at the top of the advanced, rassechennye to share sizo-zelenye, white, in the form of reindeer horns; Second-round, resembling a pocket diameter of 12 to 20 cm on the sides sometimes dolchatye. The sterile leaves accumulate moisture, leaf litter, a substrate for plant breeding. Sporangii zhelto-korichnevye. Plants teplolyubivo requires mandatory spraying. Razmnozhayut disputes and divisions. Epifitnoe grow as a plant in zemlesmesyu basket with the addition of sphagnum moss. Used for landscaping Greenhouse. There are other varieties - platitserium Hill. It leaves the old covered Cyanobacteria white hairs.

Davalliya rassechennaya - epifitny fern. Leaves 25-length 30 cm in front Eucalyptus segments in the long thin Prunus solomenno-zheltogo color. Heavy creeping white flakes attached to the root unusual plant species. The capacity use suspension baskets collected from wooden reechek on a well. Trash fill light, porous substrate, which allows the root system to grow epifita free to all parties. Requires warm, humid conditions, scattered light. Bobcats this type of fern division.




Pelleya


Less known, but no less attractive as the following types of ferns. Pelleya lily-miniature ferns, leaves that reach up to 30 cm in length, slip round, Eucalyptus. White creeping. Used in flower compositions. Ligodium Japanese-curling fern. Leaves with cirrus rassechennymi narrow segments. Disputes are located at each end of sporonosnyh narrowed segments. Requires warm moist conditions. Razmnozhayut disputes. Flebodium golden fern-spreading, long-difference creeping rhizomes. Tektariya pochkonosnaya-a large mat of fern green leaves on the lower part of which occur ousted kidney size of a pea. They easily oblamyvayutsya and, once on the soil surface, becoming entrenched.