Most recently, among the summer residents, only traditional crops were grown. But in recent years, more and more popular exotic plants in the country. These include the anguria or antelic cucumber, vigna or asparagus beans, chufa or earth almonds, chard or beetroot, kiwano or curly African cucumber, momordica and many others. They have a high yield, and care for them does not require much effort.
Many of the exotic plants are frost-resistant. But in the open ground they should be planted after pre-germination of seeds at home. Landing is carried out in the spring, when night frosts recede and the ground is sufficiently heated.
Exotic plants for the garden
Recently, more and more gardeners are trying to grow such plants on their plots: lemon, orange, mandarin, banana, persimmon, kiwi, pomegranate, mango, grapefruit, date palm, feijoa, passion fruit, fig fig.
For planting exotic fruit plants, it is recommended to buy ready-made seedlings that have undergone the necessary inoculations and treatment. Attempts to grow them from seeds can not give the expected result.
Attraction of Persimmon seedlings, which have been acclimatized and capable of withstanding frosts up to -30 ° C, attracts attention.
From kiwi seedlings in the future grows lianas, the fruits appear already for the third year after planting.
Cultivation of exotic plants from seeds
Some seek to conduct experiments on the cultivation of exotic plants from seeds. The consequences of this may be that the seedlings, as a rule, do not preserve the varietal characteristics of the plant parent. If you still decide to conduct the cultivation in this way, for sowing, you should take as fresh as possible bones. They are planted in a mixture of land, peat and sand. When the first two leaves appear in seedlings, they are planted in separate pots, and later in open ground.
Thus, if you wish, you can master the cultivation of exotic plants in the open ground.