very bulbous plants grown for cut flowers and flower beds and borders in the garden.
bulb widely grown in Italy for the great time that this has to be cut in the ground.
There are many varieties and colors that take forms very different.
The bulb is one of the cheapest and easily available
Growing : bury the bulbs (which have been stored in dry peat during inverno5-10 ° C) in a soil rich in organic matter and well drained with addition of sand or fine gravel. Are planted from late March until mid-June, every 15 days, to ensure continuous flowering from June and so new to the first frosts. If you want to get cut flowers, plant the bulbs at 15 cm apart in rows spaced 50 cm. If you plant the gladiolus flower beds to join together to decorate the flowering plants of the same color, leaving 15 cm between the bulb and the other.
Exposure: Sunny. Watering : abundant, adding mineral fertilizer in solution. Do not let the soil dry in estate.Quando, in October-November, taking out the bulbs to keep them until the following spring, it is good to disinfect mixed product with a fungicide and insecticide, to prevent rot. During the cultivation treatments against head lice do, red spider mites and thrips.
Flowering: Summer
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