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- This care needs your gold paint!
- Does the plant tolerate dryness or does it have to be watered?
- Does Goldlack Need Fertilizer?
- How to winter the plant?
- What disease can it come to?
- When and how do you cut the gold paint?
- Tips
Good care rewards the gold varnish with abundance of flowers
This care needs your gold paint!
It flowers in the spring with other plants such as daffodils, tulips and violets to the bet. It looks a little bit over the summer. The gold paint trumps especially with its flowers. But he presents these only if he is properly cared for.
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The gold varnish should be supplied with plenty of water, especially during its flowering period, which lasts from April to May (different depending on the variety). Both tap water and rainwater is suitable.
He tolerates short-term dryness harmless. But in the long term, he can not make friends with a dry earth. It also reacts sensitively to wetness (rottenness). It is ideal to keep the substrate slightly moist.
Does Goldlack Need Fertilizer?
Already in the spring you can supply the gold paint with compost and / or horn shavings. Carefully work these fertilizers into the soil. The next application of fertilizer makes sense only 8 weeks later. During its growth phase, the gold varnish should be fertilized approximately every 4 weeks. Well suited are liquid fertilizers. Container plants are fertilized every week from March to the end of June.
How to winter the plant?
Since the gold paint is considered badly hardy, you should cover it over the winter. Previously, he is cut back in the fall so far that only a few leaves remain. From November, place a layer of brushwood over the root area of the plant. Potted plants are set in the autumn and wintered.
What disease can it come to?
Normally, the gold paint is not susceptible to disease. But location and care are not right, it can lead to diseases. Among others, the following diseases can occur:
When and how do you cut the gold paint?
This is to be considered when cutting:
Tips
Since the gold paint is poisonous, you should rather wear gloves in direct contact!