This plant grows eagerly, flowers and ripens numerous fruits. It should be clear to every gardener that they have to rely on plenty of nutrients for this. The natural occurrence in the ground cannot keep up for long. It needs to be fertilized!

Bark mulch is good for the Goldliguster

Appropriate fertilizers

For a privet hedge or solitaire in the garden soil, compost and horn shavings (€32.93) can be used as fertilizers. Both provide the soil with new nutrients evenly and over a long period of time. The combination of both substances is ideal. The compost that is often used in the home garden is additionally enriched with nitrogen by horn shavings. This substance is indispensable for leaf sprouting. You need per square meter:

  • 3 liters of compost
  • 100 grams of horn shavings

Other long-term fertilizers from the trade can also be used for fertilization. When dosing, you should follow the manufacturer's instructions.

Fertilizer for potted plants

Goldprivet growing in a pot can be fed with a conventional liquid fertilizer. Use quality fertilizer that you administer according to the instructions on the packaging.

Optimum time

The Goldliguster should be supplied with the fertilizer combination mentioned above at least once a year. The month of March is ideal for this, because the gold liguster sprout immediately afterwards.

If necessary, it can continue to be fertilized at regular intervals during the growing season. However, the last fertilization should not take place after mid-August, otherwise the shoots will no longer mature and become winter-hardy.

tips

Be careful when working the fertilizer into the soil, because privets are shallow-rooted. Damage to their roots should be avoided so as not to give a chance, for example, to a disease caused by wilt fungus.

Mulch with bark mulch

Young privets are often covered with bark mulch. Nothing speaks against it, but one thing should be noted: bark mulch is low in nitrogen, and when it decomposes, the microorganisms even use up nitrogen. But then this substance is missing from the plants. Growth falters and leaves turn yellowish.

If you mulch young privets, you should provide them with fertilizer beforehand. Bark compost is also better than bark mulch because it is already more decomposed.

Lime now and then

Goldprivet loves lime and grows better when it finds this element in the soil. You should determine the pH of the soil beforehand to get reliable numbers. If the value is below 6 for sandy soils and below 6.5 for loamy soils, you should lime.

  • lime in autumn
  • sprinkle carbonated lime preparations in the root area
  • Observe the manufacturer's dosage instructions

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