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How to Grow Echinacea
INDEX
- Planting Instructions
- Soil Preparation
- Maintaining Echinacea
Planting Instructions
- Plant roots the moment they are delivered
- If you can't plant immediately, then remove from packaging and store in a cool place
- When to plant: Mid to late Spring
- Plant roots so that the crown or growing point is 5cm below soil level
- Spacing: 45 to 60cm apart
- Position in a sunny location, avoid exposed sites
- Will tolerant some light shade
- Companion plants: Grasses, rudbeckia, astilbes
Soil Preparation
- Requires a dry, well draining soil
- Avoid damp & water logged soils
- Dig over soil adding well rotted manure
- Wet soils can be conditioned by adding grit, vermiculite or RHS bulb starter
- Soil pH: Acidic to neutral
Maintaining Echinacea
- In exposed sites plants may need to be staked
- Water lightly after planting. Increase water as plant grows
- Mulch over the top of crown with organic mulch
- Old leaves, straw, manure or chippings will do for this
- Feed every two week in Summer months
- Cut back to ground level in Autumn after flowering
- Mulch up around crown over the Winter months
