Buttercups - cultivation and care

Even the most sophisticated gardeners fall in love with buttercups. Growing and caring for these bright summer flowers do not require much attention. Ranunculus (he is an Asian buttercup) grows on simple garden soils and is resistant to diseases. This flower is magnificent in cutting. The extravaganza of the colors of these plants amazes with its diversity. Multi-colored buttercups in group plantings are a competition to many garden favorites.

Thanks to the unpretentious buttercups, growing and caring for the lungs, are spread almost all over the planet. In the bulk, Asian buttercups are perennials. But there are annual and biennial species. Their delicate and delicate petals form simple terry flowers with a diameter of 5-12 cm.

The main feature of buttercups is that they do not tolerate frost. They must be dug out and stored indoors for the winter period. With the fading of the aboveground part of the plants (this happens near the end of the summer), the goose-like legs of the tubers are extracted from the soil. Before you send them to storage, you need to carefully check whether they are damaged. It is necessary to remove substandard specimens and separate the formed "babes". After this, it is desirable to lower them into the manganese solution. After thoroughly drying, you can put it in boxes with peat, sawdust, dry moss or sand. Storage room should be cool, dry and well ventilated.

In April, these tubers are removed from the shelter, carefully checked the appearance and prepared for planting in the ground. It is recommended to place them for several days in wet sawdust. Buttercups, the cultivation of which starts from planting to a depth of 4-5 cm, is planted at a distance of 12-15 cm from each other. Preliminary it is desirable to introduce good organic fertilizers into the soil. The period of flowering is well supported by feeding potassium fertilizer (potassium sulfate, potassium salt, wood ash).

Ranuncles love sunny, slightly shaded places, where they will bloom longer, and the petals will be brighter. Small drafts can carry buttercups. Growing up and caring for them during this period needs special. In no case can not wet the soil. By the way, to it they are indiscriminate, the main thing is that it is loose and soft. Heavy and wet soil sometimes leads to the rot of tubers, and hence, the death of plants.

The buttercups multiply by their daughter tubers or seeds. The first year passes mostly without flowering. But young plants during this period grow up, gain strength and are saturated with many nutrients.

There are also simple kinds of buttercups: creeping, Kashubian, golden, caustic. The most popular in our latitudes and folk medicine is buttercup creeping. He is very poisonous. It grows in shaded places on moist alluvial soils. Apply it only as an external remedy: with scrofula, rheumatism, scabies.

Summing up, we can say that these are very beautiful and useful flowers - buttercups. Cultivation and care for them are quite simple. It is important only to remember the frost and cold winter - during these periods they need to be hidden in the room. And the rest of the time - enjoy the beauty of these incredible flowers!