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- Maintaining Ornithogalum (Milkstar) - Tips for Care
- How do you pour Ornithogalum right?
- Do you need to fertilize a milk star?
- Will ornithogalum be cut?
- You have to pay attention to diseases and pests?
- How do you maintain Ornithogalum in winter?
- Tips
Ornithogalum needs virtually no care in the field
Maintaining Ornithogalum (Milkstar) - Tips for Care
Ornithogalum is a poisonous bulbous plant found in hardy and hardy varieties. While the frost-hardy species can easily be maintained in the garden bed throughout the year, frost-sensitive milk stars must be wintered in the house in winter. Tips for care.
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In the field, pouring is usually not necessary. Only in very long periods of drought should you water something.
If Ornithogalum is cared for as a potted plant, water regularly so that the soil never completely dries up. Avoid waterlogging, as it causes the onions to rot.
Do you need to fertilize a milk star?
If you give some mature compost in the planting areas before planting, fertilizing in the garden bed is superfluous.
For care in the pot, add some liquid fertilizer every fortnight before and during flowering. If the star has faded, you must no longer fertilize.
Will ornithogalum be cut?
Cutting is not necessary. You may cut off the withered inflorescences if you want to prevent the plant from multiplying itself.
Never cut the leaves of the star of milk. They pull themselves in after a few weeks anyway.
You have to pay attention to diseases and pests?
Diseases only occur if you mistreat the plant. Mostly too much wetness is responsible for decay of the roots.
Occasionally, aphids infest the milk stars, especially if they are pulled in a bucket. Rinse the lice with water.
How do you maintain Ornithogalum in winter?
Frost hardy varieties need no special winter protection. But you can like sprinkle some twigs or deciduous trees over the planting site before the frost starts.
Frost-sensitive varieties are taken out of the pot as soon as the leaves have retracted. Remove the tubers from the soil, shake well and then leave to dry. Store the onions in wood wool or paper bags in a dark, frost-free place.
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When Ornithogalum flowers depends on the variety. Some varieties bloom in spring, others in summer and autumn. Non-hardy daisy star like Ornithogalum dubium has its heyday in winter.