It is very successful at your dacha site you can cover unsightly places with the help of the alissum. This grassy creeping plant with a height of no more than 40 cm very quickly braids the surface of the soil, as it branched in width. For this his ability to alissum like to plant in the garden as a curb or between the tiles of paths .
Planting the alissum with seeds
To get this unpretentious plant, it is best to plant the alissum seed method in the open ground, and then care for crops will be minimal. Sow the seeds at the end of autumn before frosts so that the plants undergo natural stratification with frost and become resistant to diseases.
With the onset of heat, the seeds germinate and start growing, and already at the end of May you can see the luxuriant flowering of small buds. If you sow the seeds in May, the bushes will blossom in the middle of summer, and therefore you will have to delay admiration of their flowering.
The best way to plant an alissum will be a seedling method. For this, a light primer with a small amount of lime, into which the seeds are sown, is taken. They do not need to be buried, but only slightly pressed against the soil. Under favorable conditions, sprouts will appear in a week or even earlier.
In order to create the necessary atmosphere for the seedlings, they are covered with a small boy who is removed from time to time for airing. For active growth, a temperature of 15 ° C is required.
Since the plant is planted in late March at the beginning of April, then, as a rule, in the pike, the alissum does not need, and it is immediately planted in the soil from a common container. With this method of planting, the plants are planted in the ground already adolescent and strong. The alissum from the seedlings blooms about three weeks after planting in the ground and flowering continues until the fall.
Care for the Alissum
The bushes should be regularly watered, since the absence of moisture can give impetus to wilting and dropping buds. Water for watering is taken warm from containers - barrels, cans. But this is the case, if the alissum grows on a well drained site, where water stagnation is excluded. Otherwise, because of the rooting of the roots, the disease may become a blight, and then the death of the bush.
In addition to watering the bushes will require regular loosening and removal of weeds. This simple care will grow an alissum in your garden in the most unsophisticated florist.