Every summer, there is a pile of mosquito repellent grass. Do flower friends have eyes already? To say that the best mosquito repellent effect, but also belong to this one: Geranium Geranium.
Function: mosquito repellent
There is a kind of thing called citronellal in the smell of geranium, which can drive away mosquitoes. So people call it mosquito repellent grass. Put a basin in a ventilated place at home, and you can smell the fragrance in a ten flat room, even the mosquito repellent incense is saved!
Mosquito repellent grass cutting:
If you want to plant mosquito repellent grass, just cut the roots and branches. It's better to take the leaves with a length of 5-8 cm, and insert them in the wet sand (it's hot in the day, and the survival rate of the sand is high). Be careful not to insert them too deep. 1-2 cm is enough, and put them in the shade. Spray water in the morning and evening every day to moisten them, and take root for about 1 week.
If you want to speed up rooting, you can also pour some potassium permanganate solution (potassium permanganate: water = 1:500). Don't be curious to move the branches in the cutting process, or you will lose all your efforts!
Daily maintenance:
The mosquito repellent grass grows fast. It is usually kept in a sunny and ventilated place at home. When the soil is dry, it can be watered again. Lazy breeding can grow crazy. If your mosquito repellent grass is toothy and clawy, it is recommended to trim the flowers. The fragrance will be stronger and the mosquito repellent effect will be better!
Most of the flowers are afraid of the summer sun, only sunflowers, dare to chase the sun. This gold face, look at a good mood a lot of acridine have
Functions: watch, fruit melon seeds
Sunflowers bloom from June to September (different regions). In summer, you can not only watch them, but also produce seeds in autumn. If you keep them for a few months, you can harvest them!
Sunflower seeding:
General melon seeds can't be planted. They need special sunflower seeds. They don't need to be shelled and buried in the soil. They can be poured through the flowerpot and put in the shade for 3-5 days to sprout. After sprouting, they can see the light sooner or later every day, and grow faster.
Wait for the seedlings to grow to 8-10cm, and prepare for transplanting. 1-2 potted plants with a common diameter of 20cm are more suitable, too many are prone to malnutrition. When changing pots, it's better to take some soil at the root, not hurt the seedlings. After transplanting, the shady place will be slow for 2-3 days, and then move to a place with good light for normal maintenance.
Sunflower care:
We all know that sunflowers like light, so it's best to raise them in the open or Nanyang terrace, and water them when the soil is dry. If you only have the north balcony, a little astigmatism, you can also raise, it is not big, seed is also very difficult
Aloe Vera is recognized as a good flower, it can live without any care all the year round. In summer, we must raise several pots at home, edible and medicinal!
Function: edible, anti-inflammatory
The edible aloes are mainly Curacao aloe, Chinese aloe and Shangnong aloe. Whether other varieties are edible is unknown. It's better to select the large aloe leaves with more than 3 years, cut them into sections, peel them, have thick and thick leaves, and have a good taste.
Wash the mesophyll with clear water for several times, then you can cut it into small pieces for standby. Whether it's honey water, lemonade or cold mix with tomatoes, it's a good taste of cooling and relieving summer heat. It's just natural jelly!
In addition to eating, aloe vera can also reduce inflammation and pain. In summer, when you go home, you can pick aloe leaves and mash them. You can apply them directly to your face, whiten and diminish inflammation. However, it's recommended to apply them for 5-10 minutes. It's easy to be irritated for too long. In addition, you can also relieve pain by applying aloe vera to scalded parts.
Aloe curing:
Aloe Vera is very easy to raise. It only needs to be placed in a place with good light and ventilation at home. It's better to plant it with sand soil mixed with common garden soil. If the weather is hot, water it once every 3 to 5 days, it can grow rapidly and explode the baby crazily in a summer!
Which flower is the most fragrant in the hot summer, of course, is jasmine. Many flower friends have raised flowers, and they have bloomed several times.
Function: make tea
Jasmine flowers can be picked and dried to make dried flower tea, which is convenient for storage. It can also be directly used to make tea. It's best to match with some green tea and Maojian. It's fragrant and delicious. It's drunk after drinking in summer
Jasmine water plug:
In addition to cutting with sand, the weather is too hot to try water plugging, cut 5-8 cm long Jasmine branch, the top is best to bring a pair of leaves, leaves cut half to preserve nutrition, inserted in the foam board, exposed 1-2 centimeters below, put on the bucket, in the shade 7-10 natural roots.
Jasmine care:
The more sunning the jasmine flowers, the more fragrant they are, so they should be kept in a place with good light at home. Some of the jasmine friends go on strike once they open, trim them quickly, and leave 2-3 pairs of leaves on each branch, which can stimulate the jasmine to bloom again!
Rose this year is so popular that almost every family has raised it. What kind of family have you planted? Anyway, Huahua has been fascinated by the rose in our Huayou community!
Function: Watch
Artificial cultivation technology is getting higher and higher, and now the rose flowering period is also getting longer, and more varieties, fuller flowers, more colorful, which flower lovers can resist it?
Compared with other flowers, Chinese rose is easier to preserve. It can be cut down and hung upside down in a ventilated and dry place. It can be dried in 2-3 days, and the color will not fade. You can enjoy it in a vase for 1 year ~
Rose cutting:
The survival rate of cuttings is low in the hot season. First soak the cuttings in potassium permanganate or carbendazim solution for 10-20 minutes, and then put the disposable water cup into the sand as the substrate.
Branches into the sand 2-3 centimeters deep, too deep and easy to black rot, each leaves a few leaves for photosynthesis, outside a large basin or foam box, moisture retention is better, must be placed in a cool place, to avoid light, so 5-8 natural roots.
Rose maintenance:
Rose is easy to recruit aphids and red spiders. Flower friends can make garlic water, pepper water and pepper water to spray and kill insects. When serious, they can prune and grow again. When the temperature is too high in summer, pay attention to shade, otherwise it will enter the state of pseudodeath, it is difficult to bloom normally.
Ivy is evergreen all the year round. No matter the flower friends in the north or the South can keep it. It's more drought resistant and sun resistant than the pothos.
Function: purify air
When it comes to air purification and formaldehyde absorption, you may first think of pothos, but the purification ability of ivy is better than pothos!
Ivy water plug:
Pour half of the water into the mineral water bottle, cut an Ivy tree and put it in, do not cover it, change the water once every 2-3 days, it will take about 1 week to take root, after taking root, you can do hydroponics or cut a small section of planting soil, and soon burst the pot!
Ivy care:
Ivy has low requirements for the environment. As long as it doesn't expose to the sun in summer, it's better to keep it on the windowsill with good light. After the soil is dried, water it again. A small pot can climb the wall crazily. Flower friends who don't like it can make shapes for it.
A piece of Dendrobium which can be fed by the old bark. The leaves are not seen when the flowers are blooming. The house is full of fragrance. Do you recognize it?
Function: edible
Dendrobium in the Dendrobium, flowers and stems can be eaten, flower tea, stir fry can be done, the stem can be used to pot soup, has nourishing effect
Dendrobium planting:
Dendrobium likes to grow on wood, find a piece of bark and live wood, soak for more than 20 minutes and sterilize with fungicide solution, tie Dendrobium branches to wood with thread, hang up and spray water, and take root in a few days
Dendrobium maintenance:
Dendrobium like humid environment, need to spray water every day to keep wet, troublesome flower friends, can put the wood in the flowerpot with water, so it can save a lot of effort!
Summer is the season to eat fish and crayfish. When flowers were young and fish and shrimp were made at home, the old people would add some perilla, which will never be forgotten. It's so delicious!
Function: perfume
The aroma of Perilla is strong. It can be fishy and fresh in fish and shrimp dishes. Hua Hua suggested that you put the Perilla half a minute before the dish is out of the pot, or put it on the soup after the dish is out of the pot, you can bring the taste of the Perilla to the extreme!
People who like perilla must not miss the Perilla barbecue and the Perilla snail, the taste Who eats who knows
Perilla resolution:
In the early years, perilla grew naturally in front of our house and behind our house. The two sides of the leaves are purple. The green on the front and the purple on the back are green. Pinch the leaves, and immediately a big smell of material came. Both of them can be eaten. The others are different!
Perilla care:
Perilla is very good to raise. Ordinary garden soil can be planted. It's best to put it in a sunny place to avoid exposure to the sun. When the soil is dry, water it again. When you want to eat it, just pick the leaves. It will grow again!
