Plant knotweed on the balcony
Anyone who has decided to green their balcony can experience a real flower miracle with knotweed. In order for the plant to thrive, important factors should be taken into account when it comes to care and planting.
Knotweed - sea of flowers with the climbing plant
With the decision to cultivate knotweed on the balcony, one should make the planting with foresight for the growth of the plant from the beginning.
With knotweed, you can plant a climbing and climbing plant on the balcony that can take over and occupy entire trees and buildings without pruning. Correspondingly, you should ensure that the knotweed will thrive in growing with the right planters, the correct planting substrate and appropriate fertilizer application to a halt, so that your balcony is not complete overgrown.
Knotweed, botanically Polygonum Fallopia aubertii, can boast an annual growth of eight meters, which lignify over time and form trunks. Therefore, if you want to put the knotweed on the balcony, you should make sure that pipes, rods are not wrapped around by external canopies, as otherwise the functionality will be impaired can. Accordingly, plan right from the start in which direction and at which height you want the plant to grow on the balcony.
In addition to its unrestrained vigor, the knotweed also offers a sea of white flowers in the blooming phase, which extends from July to October. Be aware that these flowers will fall off in autumn and winter and on the balcony can also clog the balcony drain pipe. Accordingly, you should install appropriate protection so that the wastewater can continue to run off.
Green the balcony with climbing plants
If you Knotweed want to use as the plant of choice for greening your balcony, you should give the plant enough space, the right location, fertilizer and offer the right planter.
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The knotweed can very quickly occupy open spaces and overgrow. You should choose a bright, sunny place as a location, but the relatively undemanding plant can still thrive in the shade. The location on the balcony is therefore also suitable for cultivating knotweed.
You should use a relatively large planter or a balcony box that you bring with you Fill humus-rich soil and insert the plant in the spring after the last frost periods and with Cover earth. When placed on the ground in the bucket, ensure that the plant has sufficient drainage so that the irrigation water does not remain in the root area. This will avoid root rot, which can cause the knotweed to die.
Keep the nutrient-rich soil moist throughout the entire growing season, as knotweed will help its enormous growth also includes water for the transport of minerals, trace elements and nutrients needed. In this way, cover the high water requirements, especially on hot days, especially in the morning hours, before the heat of the leafy plant causes problems in midsummer. If necessary, you should especially water young knotweed plants several times so that they can grow well in the fresh tub, pot or balcony planter and develop strong roots.
In winter you should shorten the knotweed comprehensively, as this plant is roof tile with strong shoots can lift, can topple trees and otherwise completely recklessly the balcony completely occupies. Depending on the condition of the soil, you should use conventional plant fertilizers that are suitable for green plants in the vegetation phase. These fertilizers are nitrogen-rich, which promotes shoot and leaf growth. Before flowering, you should use fertilizer for flowering plants, as the bloom of the knotweed on the balcony stresses and drains the bottom of the planter accordingly. If necessary, add fresh soil from above, as far as the soil volume is reduced.
If you are planting on the balcony, you should provide the knotweed with a climbing aid that you should fix at a certain distance from the masonry, rain gutter, rain pipe and the like. In this way, you keep the knotweed at a good distance from objects, objects, bricks, pipes, so that the plant does not pose a threat to important components of the house.
To propagate the knotweed, you can simply cut off lignified or mature shoots, for example when pruning heavily, and let them root in the water. After a few centimeters of root growth, you can plant them again in spring and grow a new knotweed elsewhere or give them away.
Knotweed is one of the fastest and most powerful Climbing plants that you can use very well for greening facades, corners, surfaces, barns and balconies. The modesty with abundant flowers makes the knotweed a popular climbing plant.
