Plant and care for snapdragons

The right location and soil

In order for the snapdragon to develop many buds, you should give it a place in full sun. Lights too Penumbra is tolerated.

The flowering plant prefers a nutrient-poor, slightly acidic subsurface. To get off to a good start, you can use the Topsoil improve with rhodendron soil or compost.

Sowing and planting

Snapdragons are very easy to multiply, as they often seed themselves and keep coming back in the same place. Alternatively, you can move the plants forward in the house and move the beginning of flowers a little forward. By the end of April at the latest, they will be accustomed to the field and planted out at the beginning of May.

In specialist shops you can get snapdragons in many shades of color. From the beginning of May these will be inserted about as deep as they were in the pot before. It looks particularly pretty when you arrange the busy bloomers in small, colorful groups of three to four plants.

Water and fertilize

Snapdragons don't like wet feet. Therefore only water when the top centimeters of the soil feel dry and avoid waterlogging. Since the plant is sensitive to lime, you should always use rainwater or stale water.

Mix compost directly when planting, Horn shavings(€ 32.93 at Amazon *) or a commercially available fertilizer for flowering plants under the substrate, the snapdragon does not need any further fertilizers.

Winter protection

The flowering plant is frost-resistant, so normal winter protection from brushwood or leaves is sufficient. It is not cut back until spring, as the foliage serves as natural frost protection.

Bugs and diseases

The snapdragon is occasionally attacked by aphids, sciarid gnats and other insect pests. You can tackle this with home remedies or commercially available, ecologically active insecticides.

Depending on the weather conditions, real or fake threatens mildew. Remove affected parts of the plant immediately and dispose of them with household waste so that the fungus cannot spread.

If you mean too well by watering or if the water cannot run off, root rot is common. The following signs are typical for this plant disease:

• Missing flowers.
• Wilting, discolored leaves.
• If you dig up the plant, the root ball will smell unpleasantly putrid.
• The roots are not crisp, but soft and mushy.

Unfortunately, infected snapdragons can rarely be saved. The best prevention is therefore moderate watering. Make sure that the water can run off well when you set it with a drainage layer of gravel or sand.