Among gardeners, Turkish cloves are very popular. Love for this flower is explained by its unpretentiousness, duration of flowering and very bright color. The plant is ornamental. To get such beauty, cultivation and care must be literate. Its height is 15-20 cm (short carnation) and 60-80 cm (tall). The diameter of the inflorescences in which the flowers are collected is 10-12 cm. The flowers have the most diverse colors: white, red, pink, burgundy. Carnation can be one-color or two - three-color, with an unusual distribution of color areas. Inflorescences can be simple and terry, in the form of large hats. Turkish cloves have a very delicate aroma.
When to plant Turkish cloves
Growing Turkish cloves through seedlings depends on weather conditions. If you plan to plant seeds for seedlings, then it is best to do this in March-April. If you plan to plant seeds immediately in open ground, then best time will be the end of spring - the beginning of summer. It is best to wait for the onset of cool weather, when the sun is just starting to bake, because Turkish cloves do not like heat. Evening hours are the best time for planting seedlings. Growing is best done in light partial shade.
The seeds of the plant are able to survive the winter, so they can be planted even in autumn. But if the question of when to sow Turkish cloves for seedlings is acute, you can save the plants in indoor pots and in early spring transplant them into open ground. When sown in autumn, the first sprouts will appear only in spring. The first shoots appear after 10 days if sowing is carried out in the spring. 
Sowing seeds of Turkish cloves for seedlings
Sowing seeds of Turkish cloves is not much different from sowing seeds of other plants. Carnations can also be grown for seedlings at home; for this, the prepared soil must be treated with a solution of potassium permanganate. Sowing is done in March or at the very beginning of April. Take a container with prepared soil and deepen the clove seeds into it. Do not plant too deep, the maximum depth should be one centimeter. Usually the seeds are planted in rows, at a distance of 15 cm from each other. If you don't have that much space, then you can group the rows closer friend to a friend, but in this case, do not fill them with water. The distance between seeds should be at least 1.5 cm. 
After sowing, pack the soil over the seeds and lightly spray it with non-cold water. Cover the seedlings with a piece of any non-woven material. When 20 days have passed, then you can start picking. When planting a seedling, it is necessary to observe a distance between rows of 6-7 cm. Picking is performed in the evening or in cloudy weather. Seedlings are covered again, from time to time letting them breathe fresh air. Once the seedlings are large enough, you no longer need to cover them.
Planting seedlings of Turkish cloves in the ground
Already at the end of summer, young seedlings can be planted on a prepared site. A distance of 20-30 cm must be observed between them. If Turkish carnation is grown from seeds in this way, then it is possible to achieve flowering in the very first year. Although usually in the first year a bush is formed. And next year it will grow to a mark of 40-50 cm. In mid-June, you can see incredibly beautiful and large inflorescences in a flower bed. Leaves that formed in the first year should be covered with spruce branches for wintering. There are some varieties of Turkish carnation that can please with repeated flowering. The life of the plant is 5-6 years.
Growing Turkish cloves from seed outdoors
Turkish carnation seeds can be sown in open ground already in May or early June. Two weeks before planting, it is necessary to prepare the soil. You need to dig, loosen and water it, and then cover with a film. It is advisable to choose a sunny or semi-shady place for the plant with fertile, humus-rich soil. In cool weather, removing the film from the prepared soil, you can start planting seeds. It is necessary to make grooves located at a distance of about 15 cm from each other, sow seeds in them and sprinkle them with earth. In this case, the distance between the seeds should be 2 or 3 cm, and the planting depth should be 1 cm. After sowing, the soil should be slightly moistened warm water from the sprayer and cover it with non-woven fabric. As a rule, seedlings appear within 10 days.
After 18 or 20 days after germination, it is necessary to dive the seedlings to a new place. The recommended distance between seedlings is about 7 cm and the spacing between rows is 15 cm. Seedlings must be covered again protective material. Picking is preferably done in the evening after 18 hours. In August, young carnation bushes should be transplanted to a previously prepared permanent place. The distance between young plants should be about 30 cm. To protect against severe frosts it is necessary to cover the bed with carnations with spruce branches. Next year, already in June, it will be possible to admire the lush inflorescences of Turkish carnations. You can also sow the seeds of the plant in October for the winter, but always in dry land. Seeds must also be dry. Before frost, cover the bed with seeds with peat or humus with a layer of 10 cm. In spring, the shoots that have appeared must be covered from sunlight.
Turkish Carnation Care
It is important not only to know how to grow a Turkish beauty, but also how to care for her.
Basic care rules:
- regular weeding;
- soil loosening;
- timely watering;
- correct nutrition.
Turkish carnation flowers should be watered no more than twice a week. On a flower bed measuring 1 sq.m. 12-15 liters are consumed. water. In the summer heat, watering is carried out more often, but you should not overdo it, otherwise there is a risk of root rot. The jet of water is directed not at flowering buds, but at the soil itself, at the roots.
As for top dressing, it can be organic or chemical in nature. The first top dressing is recommended when the height of the plants is 10-12 cm. The time of the second top dressing is the formation of buds. Do not forget about top dressing in the fall, and not just in spring and summer. Not nutrients- no healthy growth.
Turkish carnation planting and care are the main points that provide good growth and health. It is important to pay attention to the quality of not only the work itself, but also the soil in which the seeds are planted. Plants grow well on almost any soil, but it is better to give preference to light loam with a slightly acidic or neutral soil reaction.
Reproduction of Turkish cloves by vegetative methods
The variety of carnation that you like is often propagated by layering in July-August. To do this, bend the shoots to the ground, secure with studs and sprinkle with soil. The stem at the top is tied to a peg to ensure a permanent vertical position. Within two to three weeks, roots appear in the nodes, and after some time, shoots and leaves already appear. In autumn, rooted shoots should be cut off from the mother plant and planted.
Protection of Turkish cloves from pests
These flowers are most often attacked by aphids and spider mite. Such insects can be effectively dealt with using freshly prepared infusion of potato tops. To obtain it, you need to take dry tops (0.6-0.8 kg.) Or green tops with leaves (1.2 kg.) Per 10 liters. water. All this is infused for 1.5 days. Then one tablespoon is added to the composition liquid soap. The best time to spray cloves is morning or evening. To fight mice, you need to place poison baits in their passages near the landings. AT winter time it is necessary to trample down and compact the snow near the bushes (especially during thaws). 
AT summer time the gardens are adorned with cheerful caps of Turkish carnations. It spreads like a motley carpet on the ground, fills the alpine hill, forming original flowering patterns. To be able to enjoy this beauty, you need to take care of it in advance and competently plant, grow and care for these beautiful flowers.
Turkish Carnation is perennial with straight and strong stems, which are crowned with umbrellas of flowers of various colors: white, red, pink, cream. The shape of the flowers is also different: simple, terry, semi-double.
The height of the plant depends on the variety and can vary from 20 cm to 60 cm. new variety, pay attention to the height of the bush to find its proper place in the garden.
Growing from seeds is not difficult. The main thing is to adhere to certain rules for growing and subsequent care of seedlings.
Preparing for landing
The soil can be purchased ready in a specialized store for seedlings, it will already have all the necessary elements.
But if necessary you can make it yourself, taking everything in equal proportions of sand and leafy soil.
The soil is sifted in order to remove everything unnecessary and superfluous (pebbles, twigs), and calcined in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees for 15 minutes.
Sowing seeds is carried out in early March on the growing moon and you need the following tools:
- priming;
- landing capacity;
- ruler;
- seeds;
- expanded clay;
- manganese.
The container can be any - plastic or glass - it does not matter. Drainage holes are important, through which will flow excess water after watering.
We sow the seeds of Turkish cloves for seedlings:
How to plant in open ground
Seeds are sown in open ground in early May.. For this purpose, a warm sunny area is selected and dug onto a shovel bayonet. Mineral and organic fertilizers are applied.
Then they make depressions in the soil and sow the seeds of Carnation. The earth is well moistened from a watering can so as not to wash the seeds and covered with a film to create greenhouse conditions so that the seeds germinate together without loss.
It is important to remove the shelter when warm weather sets in., otherwise the seedlings under it will be able to rot.
How to sow seeds in containers
Expanded clay is poured at the bottom of the tank, then nutrient soil, and moisten it with the help of bottom watering with warm water. Manganese must be diluted in water to color pink, since the soil is disinfected with the help of manganese potassium.
With the help of a ruler in moist soil, we make not deep recesses and seeds are sown in such rows. In a row, the distance between seeds should be 2 cm.
In order for seedlings to be friendly, moist soil with sown seeds is covered with glass and kept at a temperature of 17 degrees Celsius.
When most of seeds will sprout, glass or other cover is removed, and further care for seedlings consists of timely watering and turning in relation to the sun.
By turning the seedlings to the sun in different directions, the seedlings grow more even and stocky.
Care and requirements for watering, temperature, light, top dressing
When friendly shoots appear, a container with seedlings of Turkish Carnation should be move to a bright place, but without direct sunlight. Direct sun can burn young shoots.
The temperature in the room should be at the level of 13 degrees Celsius. Such conditions will enable the seedlings to grow not high and viable.
If a in early spring too little sun, then the seedlings should be established additional lighting so that it doesn't stretch.
Watering is done as the soil mixture dries out. with a tablespoon, so as not to wash the seedlings that have not grown stronger from the soil.
When the bulk of seedlings will have two sheet plates, they dive in separate 200 gr. cups.
Top dressing in the purchased land is not necessary, but if the mixture was composed by yourself, then the seedlings are fed twice in half the dose with nitrogen fertilizer.
Seedlings are planted in a flower bed, after hardening and when the threat of frost has passed. AT southern regions In Russia, this is the beginning of May, in the Moscow region, the beginning of June.
Vegetative propagation
This Carnation has a remarkable ability to propagate vegetatively. The procedure is carried out in early August.
We bend a healthy shoot of the desired color to the ground and fix it with a wire bent in the form of a hairpin (you can also use it if the shoot is not vigorous).
In early September, it will no longer be a stalk, but separate from the mother plant. At this point, they are seated in a permanent place where they will grow next year.
When transplanting young bushes, it is good to shed the soil with warm water.
Diseases and pests
In the open field, Turkish Carnation is very rarely sick. But if it is planted within the boundaries of an industrial city, then some complications may arise.
Fusarium- destroys the plant from the inside. Sick bushes are urgently removed from the flower bed and destroyed outside the site. The place where it grew is treated with any fungicide twice with an interval of 15 days.
Rust- rusty convex spots on the back of the leaf plate. This disease manifests itself at high humidity and at the same time overfeeding with nitrogen fertilizers.
At the same time, plants are treated with HOM, and diseased leaves are removed mechanically.
The pests for this plant are bears., which, living in the soil, damage the root mass of the plant. But you can fight these insects only by collecting them manually when digging.
Turkish carnation diseases - rust and fusarium, pests - bear Varieties and their features
Turkish Carnation has many varieties that differ in flower shape and color. The most popular are varieties with double flowers.
Turkish terry carnation
This type has many famous varieties, among which:
Macarena F1
A popular mixture with double flowers of various colors: Fuchsian, White, Burgundy. The flowers are bicolor with a contrasting border. The height of the bush with optimal care is 70 cm.
Dynasty F1
Terry flowers are collected in inflorescences resembling a ball. The colors are varied in all shades of red. The height of the bushes is not large, only 40 cm. At the same time, the variety has excellent winter hardiness in middle lane Russia.
Moulin rouge
The variety of Turkish Carnation Moulin Rouge has an unforgettable aroma, reminiscent of the southern shores of the sea. Beautiful flowers various colors seem to spin in a delightful dance.
Flowering is very long long time. The bush grows to a height of 20 cm.
How to collect seeds
This bright plant looks good planted near the border and on Alpine rollercoaster. But in order not to buy new bags of seeds from year to year, it is worth taking care of collecting seeds from your own flowers.
To collect their seeds, they pick up a healthy flowering sprout, mark it so as not to remove dried buds when cutting.
When the bud is almost dry, it is cut off. in dry weather and put to dry on White list paper.
The place for drying is selected so that there are no sun rays and there is good air circulation. In this form, the seeds are dried until completely dry for two weeks.
When putting the seeds in a paper bag for storage, you must sign the year the seeds were collected.
How to grow seedlings in the garden
Seeds in the garden can also be sown in October, but this is done with dry seeds and in dry land. For the winter, such crops are covered with slate so that they do not freeze out.
Planting Carnation for seedlings in the fall, the first shoots will appear only in the spring of next year.
Spring planting provides shelter from return frosts with any covering material that allows air to pass through. grown up strong seedlings seated at a distance of 15 cm from each other.
Further care is timely watering, loosening, removal of weeds.
What is the difference between growing seedlings at home and in the garden
There is no difference in the technology of planting Turkish Carnation for seedlings at home and in the garden. The difference is that, growing seedlings in the garden significantly saves space on the southern windowsills.
In open ground, seedlings are strong, stocky and do not get sick with "black leg" and other diseases that occur when growing seedlings at home.
This wonderful delicate flower deserves attention to plant it in a flower bed, creating a unique southern flavor on your personal plot.
When planting it, one must take into account that it can self-seed and therefore the site is selected for a long period of time.
One of better ways beautifully decorate your garden or country cottage area- plant a Turkish carnation on it. These delicate inflorescences collected in corollas have a surprisingly bright color, which will certainly create a holiday atmosphere. If this ornamental plant already grows on your site, but you want to increase its number, you can use the cutting method.
Turkish carnation comes in white, pink, purple, red and burgundy. There are a lot of varieties, they all differ in the color of the petals, the method of cultivation and the length of the stems. Growing a flower at home is quite easy, even a novice florist can handle this task. Excellent Turkish carnation is also suitable for decorating bouquets. She looks great in compositions.
There are two main types:
- undersized;
- Tall.
Undersized ones reach no more than 12-15 cm in length. And tall ones can grow up to 60-80 cm in length. It also differs in the color of the petals. They can be white, red, burgundy, purple, and all shades of pink. Most often, there are two-color or three-color. The inflorescence can be either simple, consisting of a small number of petals, or terry and stuffed. As a rule, one flower consists of five petals.
The leaves are light green in color and are located along the length of the entire stem. In addition, they form a basal rosette. Another characteristic feature of this ornamental plant is its pleasant aroma. It is especially strong in white specimens.
Varieties of Turkish cloves
The most common varieties of Turkish cloves are:
- Tiara - bushes up to 45 cm high with shoots and leaves of dark green with a red tint and dark red nodes. Dark carmine flowers with a large white eye and petals serrated along the edge are collected in an inflorescence up to 10 cm in diameter;
- Scarlet Beauty - bushes 45-50 cm high with dark green leaves and shoots and bright red flowers up to 23 mm in diameter with petals serrated along the edge;
- Heimatland - bushes up to 50 cm high with shoots and leaves of dark green with a dark red tint. The flowers are dark red, up to 2 cm in diameter, with an eye and petals deeply serrated along the edge. Inflorescences in this variety with a diameter of up to 12 cm;
- Lachskenigin - a variety about 45 cm high with large inflorescences from salmon-pink flowers;
- Schneebal is a white Turkish carnation up to 40 cm high with green leaves and shoots. Terry flowers with jagged edges of petals are collected in inflorescences up to 11 cm in diameter;
- Weiss Risen - bushes up to half a meter high with green leaves and shoots and white flowers up to 25 mm in diameter, collected in inflorescences up to 12 cm in diameter;
- Kupferrot - bushes up to half a meter high with dark green leaves and shoots and copper-red flowers up to 22 mm in diameter with jagged edges. Inflorescences reach a diameter of 9-10 cm;
- Egyptian - a variety up to 60 cm high with narrow burgundy leaves and catchy maroon flowers with a white border;
- Undine - this variety has purple flowers with a white center and a white border.
Planting Turkish clove seeds
It is important to adhere correct sequence and with responsibility to approach the execution of each stage. Start by preparing the soil. Growing Turkish cloves involves two ways:
- seeds are planted directly into the ground during May-June;
- for seedlings during March-April.
Growing Turkish Cloves from Seeds
There is no particular point in growing Turkish carnation seedlings, since the plant is unpretentious and calmly tolerates frosts. A big plus of the Turkish carnation is that it does not require attention to itself in the most difficult time for gardeners-gardeners - in the spring. 
It can be sown in summer, in late June or early July. At this time, everything else is already growing with might and main, and something has even been harvested: lettuce, kohlrabi cabbage, radish, spinach, etc. It is on these vacated places that a distribution bed for Turkish cloves is arranged.
This is done simply:
- The bed is cleared of plant residues and loosened.
- A groove 1 cm deep is pressed through with a long bar and it is well watered from a watering can.
- Seeds are sown in a groove, sprinkled with soil and watered. From above, the grooves are mulched with peat so that a crust does not form.
Subsequently, you need to keep an eye on the moisture content of the soil. Shoots appear, as a rule, in a week and a half. Turkish cloves are kept on the distribution bed until the end of summer. During this time, the seedlings are thinned out twice so that in the end the distance between the seedlings is at least 20 cm. The grown plants are planted in a permanent place in rows or curtains, leaving an interval of 30 to 40 cm between them, depending on the variety.
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Sowing Turkish cloves
If you decide to grow Turkish cloves seedling way, then sowing is carried out in March or early April in a substrate previously disinfected with a dark pink solution of potassium permanganate. The substrate is prepared from sand and leaf humus in equal parts. Instead of sand, you can take vermiculite. As a container, boxes or containers can be suitable, which must be washed before use. hot water with soda. A layer of drainage is laid at the bottom of the container, and a wet substrate is placed on top.
Turkish clove seeds are sown to a depth of 1 cm, spreading them at a distance of 2-3 cm from each other. Crops are covered with loose white paper and kept at a temperature of 16-18 ºC, from time to time moistening the substrate from a spray bottle with water at room temperature. 
Features of planting Turkish carnations in open ground
Planting young plants on the site should be carried out at intervals of five to seven centimeters between individual seedlings. After the plants grow up to one and a half months of age, it is worth removing the shelter from them. And in especially strong heat, it is better to get rid of it earlier, but to build a fabric canopy over the plantings to shade them in the very sun. After all, young Turkish carnation plants can die from excessive heat.
That is why many flower growers recommend planting well-grown seedlings in the garden only in the month of August, when the sun is no longer so hot. Sometimes such manipulations are performed even in early September. But in this case, the plant does not need to be excessively moistened, and if there is a threat of near cold weather, it is worthwhile to properly insulate the soil near the seedlings with leaves and grass, or with special covering materials.
It is best to grow Turkish cloves in those parts of the garden that are in natural shading and are not blown by the winds. Such a plant feels good near tall perennials.
For the winter, young plants need to be mulched with peat or humus ( optimum thickness mulch - eight to ten centimeters), as well as cover with spruce branches. In the spring, the shelter must be removed after the start of active growth, but shading should be organized.
Turkish carnation is not a very fussy plant that can be easily grown from seeds. 
Turkish clove care
Carnation unpretentious flower and care is required mainly by young specimens:
- Watering. The plant does not like abundant watering. The exception is hot weather. The optimal rate per 1 sq. m 12 liters of water. Overwatering can lead to the development of root rot. Water should not fall on flowering buds. The normal condition of the soil is slightly moist, slightly dry. Adult specimens do not require watering.
- Carnation responds well to top dressing. It is better to use complex mixtures containing potassium. An excess of nitrogen supplements can lead to the development of diseases. First dressing mineral fertilizers a seedling with a height of 10 cm is needed. A second fertilization will be required already at the time of tying the buds. The last top dressing is the flowering of the bush. All fertilizers must be applied strictly according to the instructions so that the plant does not get burned.
- Diseases. Preventive measures will help prevent infection of flowers. Treat young specimens with insecticidal preparations. Sometimes, pests called nematodes attack - this roundworms, which can affect any part of the plant. In the fight against it, use fungicides. Treat plants in the evening. Carriers of fungal diseases are neighbors. It is undesirable to plant bushes with syris, hyacinths, gladioli. In case of a viral disease, the flowers are transplanted to another place, and the infected flowers are destroyed.
- Faded buds should be removed to encourage future flowering.
Turkish carnation, although easy to care for, looks amazing in home gardens. Her dignity is lush variegated inflorescences that exude a subtle enchanting aroma. The flower is very much loved in Turkey for its beauty. In England, it is also called Sweet William, and is used bright inflorescences into food. This herb is often used in landscape design, on lawns and for decorating borders, retaining walls. In Russia, many gardeners also fell in love with Turkish cloves. Growing from seeds- one of the most common ways of its reproduction, which even a beginner can handle.
Reference. The genus Carnation (Diánthus) from the Carnation family was classified and named by the Swedish scientist K. Linnaeus in honor of one of the deities of the ancient Greek pantheon. The literal translation of the Latin name for carnation is "flower of Zeus".
Carnation seeds can be obtained on your own, borrowed from friends, or purchased through the distribution network from professional breeders.
We get our own seeds
Turkish carnation seeds can only be harvested from plants that are two years old or older. The flowering of the plant lasts about 30 days, and approximately by the end of August, fruit-boxes form on the inflorescences. Inside them are flat seeds. At the same time, the ripening period may vary, and depends on the variety and region.
The seed material retains its properties for three years after harvest, provided that it has been provided right conditions saving. The collected and dried seeds are placed in foil, vacuum or simply paper bags and leave in a dark place. The optimum temperature for their storage is 10–12 °C with a humidity of about 85–90%. Too dry air is harmful because it reduces the germination of seeds, and excessive moisture in the air provokes fungal infections and premature germination.
Purchased seeds
More reliable way get cloves by sowing with good varietal data - purchase seeds or seed mixtures from professional breeders. Many Russian companies produce such products.
Sowing for seedlings
Turkish carnation is a perennial plant. However, it is also cultivated as a biennial. The advantage of propagation from seedlings is that flowers appear in the first year.
Preparing the soil for sowing seedlings
For sowing seeds, a substrate is prepared from the following components:
- peat and turf land - 2 parts each;
- sand - 1 part.
Sand improves gas exchange in the soil, and peat provides seedlings with useful substances. This contributes to a higher germination of Turkish cloves.
The second method of disinfection - steaming. Place a large pot or bucket on the stove, add water and bring to a boil. A grate is placed on top of the container, on which the soil mixture is placed, placed in several layers of gauze. The substrate is treated with high temperature for 90 minutes. Immediately before sowing the seeds, the earth is watered with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
Growing seedlings
To obtain seedlings, cloves are sown in February. Beforehand, the container is doused with boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate to reduce the likelihood of developing fungal infections. A drainage layer is laid out at the bottom, for which gravel, expanded clay, fragments of broken ceramic dishes are used. In extreme cases, crushed foam is used.
Gardening stores sell special drainage materials. In addition to maintaining a certain level of humidity, they also perform another task - they protect the soil from toxic substances and salts of heavy metals.
The seeds are placed in the prepared soil to a depth of 1 cm, keeping a distance of 2–3 cm between them. At the first stage, the container is placed in a room with a temperature of about 17 ° C. The container is covered with paper or film, periodically airing and spraying water onto the surface. When shoots appear, the seedlings are moved to a room with a temperature of about 15 ° C, but with good lighting. More high temperatures provoke rapid growth, which will affect the decorativeness of the bush.
Reference. The sowing density for all plants is determined as follows: 2–3-week-old seedling sprouts should not completely obscure the ground with foliage.
When 3 leaves appeared from the soil, the bushes are planted in separate pots filled with a soil mixture similar to the mixture for sowing for seedlings. Before planting in open ground, young plants are first taken out to Fresh air for 2-3 hours. Dishes with sprouts are left in shading, hiding from direct sunlight. The exposure time is increased every day. At night, the pots are left at the window with an open window. This allows the culture to get used to the new conditions.
Seedlings are planted in open ground in the third or fourth week of May, when frosts are unlikely and the soil has warmed up sufficiently.
Attention! Turkish carnation does not tolerate the transplant procedure very well. Therefore, when diving, it is better to place seedlings in pots, with which they are then transferred to open ground.
Video - Turkish clove picking
Sowing in open ground
Growing seedlings is an optional growing process. Seeds are often immediately sown in open ground "before winter" - in October. The soil must be dry. In the garden, deepenings of 1 cm are made, in which the seeds are placed. A distance of about 15 cm is left between the rows. The plot is mulched from above sawdust or peat. In the spring, the warming layer is removed. However, when sown in the garden in the first season, only leaves appear on the shoots, and only in the second year the plant blooms. To get young plants from existing varieties, it is not necessary to collect ripe boxes until they open. Seeds will scatter and self-seeding will form.
Reference. Seeds can be sown in spring, in the second half of April. After sowing, the flower beds are abundantly watered.
The soil
Turkish carnation needs fertile soil. Loams and sandy loams are also suitable, subject to sufficient feeding. For a flower, areas open to the sun or partial shade are selected. Shortly before sowing or planting seedlings, the earth is dug up to a depth of 30 cm. The bed is leveled and moistened when increased dryness soil. Then the future flower bed is covered with agrofibre for 14 days.
Turkish cloves prefer soils with a neutral level of acidity (pH 7). You can check this indicator with a litmus strip. If the soil is acidic, then apply wood ash at the rate of 700 grams per 1 sq. m. You can also use lime - 50 kg per 1 weave. The drug is applied in the fall, distributed in an even layer over the surface of the soil, after which the site is dug up.
Attention! Uneven coverage of soil with lime causes chemical burns of plants.
Watering
This flower culture does not tolerate waterlogging and stagnant water, which provokes rotting of the root system. The optimal frequency of watering is twice a week, in dry weather, watering can be increased. A bucket of water is poured onto a 1x1 bed, in dry weather - a little more, depending on the condition of the soil. The liquid is poured under the root. If the drops fall on the greens, a burn is formed in the form of ugly brown spots that worsen the external data of the plant.
top dressing
It is especially important to fertilize in the first year of a plant's life. First feeding produced when the clove sprouts have reached a height of 12 cm. For this, 20 grams are diluted in a bucket of water nitrophoska and drug Agricola Forward. The mixture is carefully applied to the beds with the plant.
Second top dressing carried out during the budding period. To do this, prepare a solution of 10 liters of water, potassium sulfate and superphosphate(20 grams each).
Third time fertilizers are applied during flowering. Use the drug Agricola for flowering crops. According to the instructions, 20 grams of the substance is dissolved in 10 liters of water. This portion is enough for 2-3 square meters. m flower beds.
Preparing for winter
Perennial varieties of Turkish cloves are cold-resistant and tolerate winter cold well. But if there is no snow in winter or little has fallen, the bushes are covered with branches coniferous trees or a layer of sawdust. This will protect the plant from freezing. In the spring, when the snow melts, the plants are temporarily shaded with agrofibre. This measure will protect the flower from sunburn.
Turkish carnation diseases
Table 1. Diseases of Turkish cloves: signs, prevention and treatment
| Disease name | signs | Prevention, treatment |
|---|---|---|
| Mosaic | Long spots on young foliage. In these places, the leaf tissue dies and holes form. Variegation appears on the flowers | Prevention - rejection of infected plants and seedlings. |
| Mottling | Not all buds open. On other colors - white stripes, wrinkling. Foliage becomes brittle, traces of chlorosis are visible along the veins | |
| bushiness | Internodes are shorter than normal, dwarfism occurs. From the dormant sinuses, an increased number of lateral shoots is formed. Flowering does not occur | |
| ring spot | Young foliage is affected by chlorotic annular spots of gray and yellow. On old leaves, the center of such spots dies off. The leaves themselves become small, red in color, deformed | |
| Rust | stems and Bottom part leaf plate is covered with light brown growths filled with spores. Infected organs die | Prevention - loose planting thickening, watering under the root, elimination of milkweed, top dressing with saltpeter every 2 weeks. For treatment, drugs Bactofit, Topaz, Bordeaux mixture are used. |
Turkish carnation is planted not only in yards, where neighborhood is important for the plant. It is planted next to the same light-loving crops as alpine aster, Carpathian bell, rudbeckia. These plants have the same care requirements, including watering, fertilizing, etc. If the Turkish carnation seedlings are transplanted into a pot, this flower will decorate arbors, terraces and rooms, forming small clubs from several bushes.
Video - Growing Turkish cloves
There are plants that can be grown without even having any knowledge of gardening and special skills. One has only to read the information about such colors, stock up planting material and some additional equipment. If you follow the recommendations experienced gardeners, then soon you can admire bright colors on his backyard. Turkish cloves are just such easy-to-grow plants, today we will discuss growing them at home from seeds. We will also clarify when it is best to plant Turkish cloves in open ground.
Turkish cloves are quite popular. flowering plant, which has very bright and attractive colors, is characterized by a long flowering period and unpretentiousness. The flowering period of such a culture lasts a little more than a month and begins in mid-July. Small flowers reach a diameter of one to one and a half centimeters. They fold into dense inflorescences, the size of which is ten to twelve centimeters. Flowers can be colored in the most different colors, for example, they are plain - white, red, burgundy or pink. It is also possible two-color or three-color coloring, with a different pattern.
In the photo, Turkish cloves
Usually in the ground, Turkish cloves are grown as a biennial plant. In the first season, such a culture forms a rosette of leaves, and in the second, flower stalks arise from them.
How to grow Turkish cloves from seed at home?
Usually, Turkish carnation seeds are sown directly in open ground. But some gardeners are engaged seedling method reproduction of this plant. It should be noted that clove seeds proper preparation and properly sown hatch quickly enough, and they should not be kept indoors for a long time. Therefore, you can start growing seedlings closer to mid-late May.
In order for Turkish cloves to germinate well and quickly at home, readers of “Popular about Health” need to first prepare the soil. To do this, connect equal parts garden soil and sand, moisten the resulting mixture, pour into a seedling box, compact a little and tighten with polyethylene. After two or three days, the soil must be loosened, sprayed and covered again with a film. After another two days, the procedure must be repeated. After a week, the film shelter should be completely removed and the seeds of the plant should be sown.
First of all, you need to draw grooves on the entire surface of the soil so that the interval between them is three to three and a half centimeters. Optimal depth grooves - no more than one and a half centimeters. Pour the grooves with a solution of potassium permanganate, then scatter the seeds into them with a thin strip. Grind them with a small layer of soil or coarse sand. Tighten the seedling boxes with polyethylene or cover with glass and send them to a dark, but enough warm place. Optimum temperature for seed germination will be a temperature of twenty-three degrees.
Usually the first seedlings appear two weeks after sowing. After that, they must be thinned out (with high seed germination). To avoid the need for thinning, you need to initially sow the seeds at intervals of two to three centimeters. But at the same time, there is no guarantee that they will all rise.
After the fourth week has passed since sowing, it is worth planting seedlings in separate containers. If it is stable on the street warm temperature, you can immediately transfer them to open ground. But at the same time, it is still worth covering the ground with polyethylene so that young plants do not suffer from a decrease in temperature at night.
Transplantation of Turkish carnation seedlings in open ground is carried out after the threat of night cold has completely passed. This manipulation is performed only in the evening, when the sun is inactive. The soil on the site will also not be superfluous to treat with potassium permanganate.
Features of planting in open ground
Planting young plants on the site should be carried out at intervals of five to seven centimeters between individual seedlings. After the plants grow up to one and a half months of age, it is worth removing the shelter from them. And in especially strong heat, it is better to get rid of it earlier, but to build a fabric canopy over the plantings to shade them in the very sun. After all, young Turkish carnation plants can die from excessive heat.
That is why many flower growers recommend planting well-grown seedlings in the garden only in the month of August, when the sun is no longer so hot. Sometimes such manipulations are performed even in early September. But in this case, the plant does not need to be excessively moistened, and if there is a threat of near cold weather, it is worthwhile to properly insulate the soil near the seedlings with leaves and grass, or with special covering materials.
It is best to grow Turkish cloves in those parts of the garden that are in natural shading and are not blown by the winds. Such a plant feels good near tall perennials.
For the winter, young plants need to be mulched with peat or humus (the optimal thickness of the mulch is eight to ten centimeters), and also covered with spruce branches. In the spring, the shelter must be removed after the start of active growth, but shading should be organized.
Turkish carnation is not a very fussy plant that can be easily grown from seeds.