Before boarding
Since clematis can grow in one place for a long time (more than thirty years), it is necessary to take care of their comfortable existence before planting. Prepared especially carefully for clematis landing hole.Clematis receives its first fertilizers from it as soon as it moves into a new “house”. After laying the drainage (and the plant definitely needs drainage, since clematis roots do not tolerate rotting), the planting hole is filled with peat and humus (2 buckets each). It is also worth adding a bucket of sand, 1/2 liter of wood ash, 100 g of complex mineral fertilizer and superphosphate. Clematis prefer neutral, alkaline soil. Therefore, when planting, it is good to add 100 g of dolomite flour.
Five meals a day
In the first year after planting, clematis does not need to be fed. In the second year, the first feeding is carried out as soon as the shoots emerge - in May. Behind growing season, which for clematis is quite long - from May to October, the plant must be fed 5 times.The first feeding - in May - is given with a solution of ammonium nitrate. You can dilute the fertilizer with water (2 g per 10 l), or you can simply scatter 200 g of granular fertilizer around the bush and lightly work it into the soil.
The second feeding is done after 7-10 days. This time clematis needs organic matter. Fresh manure should never be used. Such fertilizing will destroy the plant. Fertilize clematis a second time with a weak infusion of mullein (1:10) or chicken droppings, diluted with water 1:15.
If there are no organic fertilizers, you can replace them with an infusion of fermented grass (1:10) or prepare a urea solution (10 g per 10 liters of water). Fertilizers that contain chlorine cannot be used for clematis.
The third feeding is carried out after 10-14 days - with a complete complex fertilizer (“Kemira universal”). Prepare a solution - 1 tbsp. for 10 liters of water. The next feeding is necessary for the plant during the budding period. It is carried out with phosphorus-potassium fertilizer, according to the instructions on the package.
Fifth and last feeding given after the end of mass flowering and pruning of clematis - 1 tbsp. complex fertilizer for 10 liters of water. Throughout the season, the soil under the clematis is watered with lime milk.
Proper soil care, regular fertilizing and watering, pruning in accordance with the requirements of the variety, protection from winter frosts, diseases and pests - this is the maximum care that clematis needs for abundant and long flowering over many years.
On loose, fertile soils, clematis roots reach a depth of 1 m. In general, the root system of an adult plant masters up to 1 m3 of soil. Such a powerful plant needs large quantities nutrients and moisture.
How to water clematis
Watering. In order for the roots to begin to function normally after planting, clematis need weekly abundant watering. And in sunny and dry weather, they are watered after 5 days. In the future, young plants require watering once every 7-10 days. To find out whether adult plants need moisture, check the condition of the soil at a depth of 20-30 cm. If the soil is dry, it’s time to water the clematis.
When watering, the soil is moistened to the depth of the roots. Otherwise, large-flowered clematis over 5 years old, as a rule, begin to have smaller flowers. To prevent this from happening, the water must penetrate to a depth of 60-70 cm. But with normal watering, only part of the water reaches that deep, the rest spreads over the surface of the soil.
How to be? This problem has a simple solution. Around the bush, stepping back from it by 30-40 cm, dig flower pots flush with the surface of the ground. During watering, they are filled with water, which will then gradually penetrate to the roots through the drainage hole in the bottom. This technique promotes the formation of large flowers even in 7-8 year old plants.
Clematis, how to properly care for the soil
Soil care. Clematis do not tolerate overheating and drying out of the soil. It should always be slightly damp and loose. Therefore, after each watering and rain, the soil around the plants is loosened. Near new plantings - shallow (2-5 cm) to destroy the soil crust and the first weeds.
Good results are obtained by mulching the soil, which partially replaces watering and loosening. For clematis, it is best to use semi-rotted manure as mulch, sprinkled with peat. When watering or raining, such mulch retains moisture longer and provides the plant with additional nutrition. In winter, it protects the root system from freezing, especially during icy conditions. Thanks to mulch, many worms appear, which, by making passages in the soil, help improve its structure.
How to feed clematis and add nutrients
Feeding. Clematis requires a lot of nutrients. Firstly, they bloom for a long time and abundantly, and secondly, they annually renew almost the entire above-ground vegetative mass. Large-flowered clematis are fed at least 2 times a month, and small-flowered clematis are given 2-3 feedings per season, using 10 liters nutrient solution for 1-2 bushes (depending on the size of the plant).
During the growth of clematis especially need nitrogen. With its deficiency, the shoots become short, the leaves become smaller, turn yellow, acquire a reddish tint, and the flowers are small and poorly colored. Due to the fact that shoot growth in clematis occurs throughout the entire growing season, nitrogen should always be in the soil, but the greatest amount is required in the spring. For nitrogen fertilizing, diluted organic fertilizers are used: slurry (1:10) or bird droppings (1:15), alternating with mineral fertilizers: nitroammophoska, or ammonium nitrate, or urea (15-20 g/10 l).
Phosphorus is another important element, necessary for clematis. Its deficiency causes browning of the leaves, which take on a purple hue. Shoots and roots develop poorly. Phosphorus is added during the main soil amendment in the form of bone meal in September (200 g/m2). But at the same time you can apply fertilizing with an extract of superphosphate (20 g/10 l of water).
Potassium activates the synthesis of organic substances in cells and promotes the flow of water into them. Its deficiency causes browning of the edges of leaves, especially old ones. The flower stalks and pedicels of the buds become brown and even blacken. The color of the flowers becomes lighter. In the spring it is best to use potassium nitrate, in August potassium sulfate, diluting 20-30 g in 10 liters of water.
N. Ya. Ippolitova, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences
Clematis, like any other flower, for good and lush flowering definitely needs to be fed. Then it will fully develop and give you its own, amazingly beautiful flowers that will decorate your fence, wall or gazebo. It all depends on what you planted it next to. amazing plant. After all, this is precisely why clematis is grown, so that it can further decorate the structure that serves as its support. Now, let's directly figure out what types of fertilizer are suitable for clematis. What you can feed him and what he doesn’t like. We feed clematis. What and how should this be done? During its entire growing season, clematis is usually fed 4 times. In the spring, when your clematis just wakes up, you already need to think about feeding. This is not done immediately, but only at the end of spring. You need to feed it with urea (here is a good article about this fertilizer). You will only need to take a tablespoon of this fertilizer, and add mullein to it (it should already be in liquid form, 1 liter). Both of these components are diluted in an ordinary 10-liter bucket of water. The second time you will need to fertilize when the clematis has not yet bloomed, but is already about to do so. We calculate again using a bucket of water. “Agricola-7” (a tablespoon of this drug) is already diluted in it, plus potassium sulfate (taken in the same quantity). When your clematis has successfully flowered, you need to start feeding it again. The same 10 liters of water, but we already dilute any of these 2 fertilizers in them: again, “Agricola-7”, or it can be replaced with “Flower”. And the final feeding, number 4, will be necessary for clematis when its growth comes to an end. The same amount of water is taken, the preparations will be slightly different. Let’s take “Agricola for flowering plants"(here the quantity is 2 tablespoons), plus potassium sulfate and superphosphate (both in a tablespoon each). As for fertilizer consumption. At all stages of feeding this is no more than 10 liters. This is how much you need to pour on each clematis bush. Preparing clematis for winter. How to do it? In order for clematis to successfully overwinter, it must be properly prepared for this. You need to start with pruning; when doing it, you will need to seriously shorten the shoots and leave them only 20 centimeters in length. The roots must be covered. This can be done with humus or dry peat. The plant itself is covered with a box on top. And then they add additional sawdust on top. A film is laid on top of the sawdust, but it is necessary to make a hole in it so that the clematis simply does not suffocate and suffocate there. In severe frosts, clematis may suffer even under such cover. It happens that clematis gets a little bit cold. In this case, it is restored quite quickly, but the flowering will no longer be so lush.
Clematis is one of the most noble and beautiful perennial vines. She is able to cover the entire area with her chic flowering vines, changing it beyond recognition. Clematis is good for decorating gazebos, arches, house walls, and fences. Clematis is also called: "vineyard", "warthog", "grandfather curls" and "clematis". There are about 300 species of clematis in nature. Clematis are easy to care for and respond very gratefully to good care after them. Subject to proper agricultural technology They are distinguished by colorful and long-lasting flowering, and great resistance to disease. Today we will tell you how to feed clematis in the summer.
When to start fertilizing clematis
If the land was well fertilized before planting, then additional feeding begins only after two or even three years. But when the soil is poor, it is necessary to add manure humus or well-rotted compost mixed with wood ash– 1-2 handfuls per bucket. This is especially true for young specimens, whose root system is not yet sufficiently developed. Over the summer, clematis grow a huge mass of shoots, leaves, and then flowers, so nutrition comes first for them. These vines need to be fed twice a month, in small portions. And the fertilizer must be in liquid form!
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How to determine if clematis lacks fertilizer
If you look closely at the flower, it is easy to independently identify the type of fertilizer that is necessary for the flower:
- Clematis' young shoots have decreased, the leaves have become yellowish in color, and the flowers have become much smaller - it requires fertilizing, which is based on nitrogen. To do this, you can use rotted poultry droppings diluted with water or cow manure;
- the plant has a peduncle that has become dark, and also the color of the flowers has become much lighter - the plantings need potash fertilizers. With the onset of spring, such feeding may consist of potassium nitrate, and at the end of summer it is recommended to feed clematis with potassium sulfate. To obtain the nutritional composition, you need to use 10-12 liters of settled water and 25-30 grams of fertilizer;
- With the onset of autumn, experts recommend introducing fertilizer based on bone meal into the top layer of soil under each clematis bush. One square meter will require 200-250 grams of flour. This fertilizing will provide the plants with phosphorus, the lack of which leads to poor growth of young shoots and a change in foliage color.
Types of summer fertilizers for clematis
Abundant and prolonged flowering of clematis leads to active absorption of nutrients from the soil. The plant needs minerals and organic fertilizers, which alternate.
If the soil was well fertilized when planting a young vine, it is better not to overload the bush this year additional contribution feeding. To ensure uniform consumption of nutrients, the plant is fed up to 4 times per season. Necessary feeding for clematis:
- Bone flour. The source of phosphorus is added at the beginning of autumn at the rate of 200 grams. per 1 sq. meter.
- Humus. Used when planting a bush, 20-23 kg of humus per plant.
- Nitrogen. Feeding the vine with nitrogen compounds is important for the uniform development of shoots and rich color of flowers. For 10 liters of water, 1 liter of slurry and 15 grams are used. nitroammophoska or ammonium nitrate.
- Potash fertilizers. Apply at the beginning of spring (potassium nitrate) and at the end of summer (potassium sulfate) 25 g. fertilizers per 10 liters of water.
Pest Control Articles
To protect clematis from pests and fungal diseases, especially during the period of active shoot development, the soil is treated with fungicidal agents. You can feed the plant through the leaves with “Floral Solution” or “Aquarin”. In summer, at the end of August, clematis needs potassium and phosphorus. It is best to use potassium sulfate, which is diluted in water and fed to the vine. Ten liters of water require thirty grams of the substance. In the warm season, clematis love to be sprayed with a weak solution of potassium permanganate and boric acid. The liana is sprayed once a month in the evening.
Fertilizing clematis in summer for lush flowering
Clematis are quite unpretentious. They adapt to different climatic conditions and can tolerate severe frosts and heat. But the root system of clematis does not like high humidity and overheating, so the soil around the roots needs to be mulched. For spectacular flowering, clematis needs regular feeding. When the first buds begin to form, the vine simply needs additional nutrients. During this period, the plant simply needs phosphorus and potassium. It is best to use complex mineral fertilizers, which do not contain chlorine. Also, during the budding period, the soil is additionally nourished with a tincture of cow dung. Lush development of clematis can be achieved by increasing the power of the root system: in a 2-3-year-old bush that has been dug up and washed from the ground, all the white tips of the roots are pinched off by 0.5 cm. Thanks to this operation, the volume of the root system more than doubles. The next year the plant blooms two weeks earlier and has larger flowers.
What other care does clematis need in the summer?
Clematis do not tolerate overheating and drying out of the soil. It should always be slightly damp and loose. Therefore, after each watering and rain, the soil around the plants is loosened. Near new plantings - shallow (2-5 cm) to destroy the soil crust and the first weeds.
Good results are obtained by mulching the soil, which partially replaces watering and loosening. For clematis, it is best to use semi-rotted manure as mulch, sprinkled with peat. When watering or raining, such mulch retains moisture longer and provides the plant with additional nutrition. In winter, it protects the root system from freezing, especially during icy conditions. Thanks to mulch, many worms appear, which, by making passages in the soil, help improve its structure.
After flowering ends, at the end of August - September, it is useful to fertilize with monopotassium phosphate, complex autumn fertilizer or wood ash. On well-aerated cultivated lands, the root system of clematis extends up to 1 m wide from the base of the bush and up to 80 cm deep, which allows the plant to select from the soil the minerals and trace elements that are missing for life. Properly planted clematis, which is fertilized correctly and in full, always blooms profusely and tolerates winter well.
