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- Great care tips for the Löwenmäulchen
- How is poured?
- How is fertilized?
- How is it cut?
- How is the snapdragon wintered?
- Pests and diseases
- Tips
Snapdragons are not particularly thirsty
Great care tips for the Löwenmäulchen
Snapdragons have been cultivated in our gardens for hundreds of years. With its diverse flower colors and blossoms reminiscent of a snapdragon, the sturdy plant fits perfectly in natural farmer's gardens, but is also extremely good in bowls and balcony boxes. Properly maintained, the snapdrag flowers from June until well into autumn.
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When it comes to water, the snapdragon is like that: less is more. Only water when the upper centimeters of the earth feel dry. Waterlogging must be avoided as the plant reacts very sensitively. Even lime does not like the snapdragon. Water with stale or even better with rainwater.
How is fertilized?
In the spring, mix ripe compost and horn shavings under the substrate. The snapdragon is frugal and needs no further fertilizer. Potted plants whose limited amount of substrate can not store as many nutrients are supplied every two weeks with a commercially available liquid fertilizer.
How is it cut?
In order to stimulate the bushy growth of snapdragons, the shoot tips of the young plants are shortened by a few centimeters. If you do not want to harvest any seeds for the next year, you will immediately cut off the flowering so that the perennial is quickly replanted with new flowers.
How is the snapdragon wintered?
Depending on whether they are hybrids or "real" snapdragons, the plant is cut back in the fall and dug out or allowed to overwinter with the foliage. The plant is relatively hardy, a normal winter protection from leaves and brushwood is enough.
Pests and diseases
Occasionally, snapdragons are attacked by aphids, sciarids and other noxious insects. These can be well treated with home remedies or commercially available insecticides.
In certain weather conditions, real or downy mildew threatens. Remove affected parts of the plant immediately so that the fungus can not spread. Both mildews can be well controlled with fungicides.
If the plant is exposed to waterlogging threatens root rot. The flower stays out, the leaves fade and the plant goes into the sequence. Moderate watering is the best prevention here. The plant is relatively hardy, a normal winter protection from leaves and brushwood is enough.
Tips
Leave some seeds on the snapdragon, the plant often mocks itself and poached.