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- How is Phlox fertilized properly?
- What you should consider when fertilizing
- The essentials in brief:
- Tips & Tricks
If possible, fertilize Phlox with organic fertilizers so as not to harm insects
How is Phlox fertilized properly?
That much does not necessarily help a lot also applies to the topic of fertilizing the phlox. More important than the amount is the correct composition of the fertilizer, otherwise the opposite of what you want to achieve.
Only when plants are optimally supplied with nutrients and water, they remain healthy and will bloom abundantly. If they receive too much or too little of some substances, then they are prone to diseases and flower sparse or not at all. The neighborhood of other plants also plays an important role. For example, the phlox is compatible with roses, asters or larkspur.
What you should consider when fertilizing
Phlox may be very sensitive to too much nitrogen in the soil. This makes him susceptible to various diseases and sometimes causes the phlox to bloom only sparsely or even to fail completely. Therefore, pay attention to phosphate-stressed and nitrogen-poor fertilizer. The poppy likes organic fertilizer like compost, horn meal or stinging nettle.
While perennial phlox needs to be fertilized only once a year, the annual phlox needs regular fertilizer. Give your perennial phlox a full blown fertilizer in spring or mix well rotted compost into the potting soil. Then spread a layer of mulch on the ground. The new shoots must not be covered. The mulch layer keeps the moisture in the soil and prevents too much weeds from growing.
Fertilize your one-year phlox regularly about every two weeks. For a liquid fertilizer is particularly good. If you cut off the tops of the main shoots of the young plants, they stimulate the plants to a more lush flowering.
The essentials in brief:
Tips & Tricks
For a lush flowering Phlox needs a phosphate-stressed fertilizer that contains little nitrogen. So the plants stay healthy longer.