Gardening Tips & Advice
By Agriculture Review
Chrysanthemum is a wonderful flowering plant that you can grow outside as well as inside your home. People started growing this flower back in 15th Century B.C.
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In temperate climate you can grow them during early spring season, while in hot tropical climate grow them during fall to early winter season.
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Prepare potting mix with 3 part soil + 2 part compost + 1/4th part Neem cake fertilizer + one spoon bone-meal.
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Mums can perform well under bright direct to indirect sunlight. However avoid low light conditions.
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Be careful while watering mums. Apply little amount of water only when soil becomes completely dry.
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Mix organic compost and stone dust, and add one to two handful of this mixture once after every 14 days. Before flowering add banana peel fertilizer.
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Pinching is important for making plant dense and getting heavy flowering. Leave 4 to 5 nodes in each branch and pinch out the rest part.
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You can use pinched out branches for propagating mums from cuttings. Plant them in sandy loam soil and wait for 25 days.
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