Thermophilic salvia. Cultivation of the seeds of her seedlings.

Surely, you could admire the flower beds on which the salvia burns. A fiery red flower, no matter how it is surrounded by flowers, leaves an indelible impression of itself. This is a real find for landscape designers. Where there is a need for a bright frame of the garden space, salvia will come in handy.

However, in order to provide such beauty to your garden, you will have to work hard. And you'll have to start long before you get the result. After all, salvia is a thermophilic annual of a long growing period. So, in order to please your eyes with its flowering (and a well-developed plant blossoms from June to September itself), it is necessary to take care of growing strong sprouts. Since for such a plant, which does not tolerate cold as salvia, growing from seeds in the open ground is impossible.

How to grow salvia from seeds:

• Prepare the earth and seeds;
• Sow seedlings in a box;
• Carry out fertilizing and watering;
• To make a pick;
• To land on a permanent place.

And now we describe in detail the process: salvia - growing from seeds.

How to grow salvia seedlings and get healthy plants, which all summer will be pleased by the bright lights of their flowers. First of all, seeds need to be prepared for sowing. To avoid damage to the seedlings with a black stalk, before sowing, they must be etched with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, after which it should be washed and dried. Having prepared seeds in this way, in the end of February it is possible to sow seedlings of Salvia. It is also important to pay attention to the composition of the soil, which is intended for sowing. It should not be excessively enriched with humus. Having provided the necessary temperature for the emergence of 18-20 degrees, you can expect their appearance in 10-15 days. Then the salvia seedlings will need to be fed at least three times during the entire period of cultivation. Top dressing is carried out mainly infusion of mullein, which should be diluted with water in a proportion of 1:20. It is best to spend it in the morning. The same applies to watering.

In order to get quality seedlings, you need to double the picking with subsequent seating in separate cups. In no case do not neglect these measures, because it is from the thickened crops that it will turn out to be weak and sick, because the plants are forced to stretch. Also, when picking, it is recommended to pinch the rootlets slightly for the development of the branched root system of the plant.

And only at the beginning of June, when the threat of freezing of the Salvia beauty seedlings, which also has the name sparkling sage, can be planted on a permanent place in the open ground. However, this should not be rushed, since even the slightest frost can kill the plant.

So, if you decide to decorate your garden plot with a plant that has amazingly bright flowers, and their coloring will make it possible to implement any design tricks, then take care of it in advance. Since for a plant like salvia, growing from seeds is possible only by sowing on seedlings, it is necessary that you have harvested both land and seeds for this. Therefore, in the autumn, prepare a box in which you will sow flowers and fill it with earth. When the time for sowing is right, you just need to warm it up. Also, take care of the purchase of seeds in advance and carry out their timely processing.

Although in order to grow salvia, you will have to work a little, its luxurious appearance on your site will pay off all your worries a hundredfold. And it does not matter that our salvia, growing out of seeds which takes time, is so capricious to weather conditions. After all, salvia is beautiful, and beauties, as you know, are allowed a lot.