How to plant daisies and care for them properly

When to plant daisies

This plant is considered a perennial and blooms only the next year after sowing. They start planting when the threat of return frosts is gone and stable heat is established. In most regions, daisies are planted from late May to early August.

How to choose a place for planting daisies

Daisies love to grow in sunny areas, but also feel good in partial shade. True, in this case, long peduncles will be produced.

They are so unpretentious that they can grow almost anywhere. For example, they can be found along the forest, where hardly anyone cared about the fertility of the soil.

Therefore, it is not necessary to pre-fertilize the flower bed. The only thing is that you can make the earth looser. To do this, for each square meter of the flower bed, add 10 liters of sand, dig a shovel onto a bayonet and level the surface with a rake. Pour plenty of water over the soil and start sowing.

How to plant daisies

You don't need to soak the seeds. They need light to germinate, so the flower is sown in a superficial way. By the way, then the daisies will breed on their own - you will meet them in different parts of the garden.

Sow daisies

Spread the seeds evenly over the surface of the soil. Lightly cover the crops with dry sand - the layer should be "translucent", literally 1 mm - and lightly tamp with the palm of your hand.

Moisten the flower bed with water from a spray bottle so as not to deepen the small seeds.

Wait for shoots

They may appear within 3-5 days. Until the sprouts hatch, moisten the crops twice a day with water from a spray bottle. In hot weather, you may need to do this more often. Do not allow the surface of the soil to dry out, it must always be moist for the seeds to germinate.

Thin out seedlings

When the sprouts release two or three leaves, pull out the extra ones, leaving a distance of about 5 cm between the plants. So daisies will not crowd out each other and will be able to fully develop.

How to care for daisies

Bushes can grow without your attention. But if you take a little time, they will bloom with a lush carpet.

Water the daisies

Do this as the soil dries out. Water the plants early in the morning or in the evening at sunset. 0.5 liters of water is enough for one plant. You can use the sprinkling method, when the plants are abundantly sprayed with a spray bottle. A special hose nozzle with a water dispersion mode will save you a lot of time and effort.

Loosen and weed the flower bed

Weeding is especially important when the plants are very young. Adult daisies grow quite vigorously and can crowd out weeds on their own.

But the periodic loosening of the soil will provide the roots with access to oxygen. Therefore, once every 1-2 weeks, beat the soil around the plants with a hoe with small teeth.

Feed the daisies

Fertilizers need to be applied only when the appearance of the plant indicates a lack of some elements. In this case, the leaves may turn yellow or the number of peduncles may sharply decrease.

To solve the problem, use a complex mineral fertilizer with an even distribution of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium - for example, 18:18:18. Before use, look at the instructions on the package for how to properly make the solution and apply the product - recommendations may vary depending on the manufacturer.