If you liked an elegant digitalis, growing from seeds will be the best way to get a healthy beauty in your garden. An excellent crop of the plant can only be obtained in open areas with good sunlight. The selected soil must be fertile, well-drained and loose.
Professionals advise preparing the soil, carefully clearing it of all weeds and the remnants of past "residents". In the early spring they dig up the earth, loosen them with special devices and sow digitalis. If sowing occurs in the pre-winter period, the soil is prepared a month before planting. You can use organic fertilizers or a mixture of them with the addition of mineral fertilizers. Seeds often give sparse seedlings, for example, woolly digitalis behaves this way. Therefore, it is worth sowing them superficially and always in the early spring. The first sprouts may appear already on the 6th day, but usually no later than the 15th day after planting.
Emerging weeds from flower beds and clearings are carefully removed, but you need to be extremely careful with the fragile young plant sprouts and their roots. Farmers who need tens of hectares to plant a digitalis plant, prefer growing from seeds to any other methods. However, lay gardeners often try to pre-grow seedlings.
In medicine, both leaves and flowers of the plant are used. Therefore, in industrial cultivation, plants such as large-flowered digitalis or woolly, give 2-3 crops of useful leaves per season. If you harvest the leaves yourself, they are harvested when they reach a size of 10-20 cm (depending on the size of the species), in late July and August. Cleaning is prescribed on a dry sunny day, otherwise the raw material will have a reduced amount of nutrients.
Want a healthy digitalis in your garden? Growing from seeds, self-seeding or simply dividing the bush will be the best option. Rapid, fragrant flowering falls in June-August. Withered flowers turn into enticing seed boxes that need to be allowed to mature and dry on a branch.
The lush green of the bush looks decorative and attractive even after the loss of buds. Need a medical digitalis? Growing from seeds is the easiest way to get this medicinal plant, harvested guaranteed in environmentally friendly conditions.
To decorate mixborders, the flower is placed in the central zone, since the plant looks equally good from all sides. Digitalis shades include white, cream, red, purple, and pink.
A cut plant can stand in a vase for up to 10 days, sometimes throwing a new arrow. Various shrubs, such as rose, honeysuckle, guelder-rose or mock-up, perfectly take root next to this outlandish flower. Hosts, mysterious aquilegia, garden varieties of geraniums or peonies traditional for our latitudes also look good.
Designers often use digitalis as a hedge while the main plants grow.
Observing small precautions, from the collected leaves you can prepare a medicinal decoction. However, it is better not to do this without urgent need and consultation with a doctor. Digitalis preparations are prescribed as a good remedy for hypertension, but it is necessary to obtain a regimen from the attending cardiologist.