The goosefoot has high ornamental value with its thick green leaves, beautiful leaf shape and plump tree. It is often placed indoors, not only can beautify the home, but also play a role in purifying the air. Now it's a good season for planting goosefoot, so if you like it, you can raise a pot of it at home to enjoy it. You can also use this time to take some cuttings, it won't take long to raise into a beautiful little potted plant.

Cultivation soil

Goosegrass is very adaptable to the environment, and you can make your own cultivation soil, for example, you can use some humus, cinder, garden soil or sand, and then mix them evenly as cultivation soil.

Avoid overwatering

Gooseberry likes humidity, summer water evaporation fast, to keep the soil moist, do not dry out should be timely watering. When the surrounding environment is too dry, but also to the plant spray humidified environment, can also be foliar spray. Spring and fall can be appropriate to reduce watering, can be every 3 or so watering. In winter, the plant's water demand is less, you can control the water appropriately. In order to avoid overwatering caused by leaf shedding.

Fertilizer supplementation

Gooseberry branches and leaves grow fast, spring, summer and autumn are the peak season for growth, to maintain sufficient nutrients to maintain growth. Fertilizer for goosefoot can be applied more rotted organic fertilizer, like rotted soybean cake, chicken manure, sheep manure and so on.

For some varieties with mottled leaves, fertilization should be careful not to apply only nitrogen fertilizer or the leaves will turn green and lose their original mottling. In order to prevent the mottled color faded or disappeared to often apply some phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, for example, you can pour some dilute solution of potassium dihydrogen phosphate, or foliar spraying.

Pruning and shaping

Goosegrass tree has a fast sprouting rate of long shoots, and should be pruned and shaped during its growth period to promote the sprouting of lateral branches and maintain a good tree shape. For small plants generally only thinning and light shearing, to modeling-based. Most of the old plants are huge, in the pot can be a heavy pruning, cut out most of the branches, but also must be cut off part of the root, repotting, so that the new leaves sprouting, the crown is full of shape.

Control light

Goosegrass wood prefers to grow in a semi-shady environment, when the light is too strong in summer, it should be placed in a cool and ventilated place for maintenance, and the outdoor maintenance should be shaded well to prevent sunlight, so as to avoid strong light burns the leaves, making the leaves dark and dull. When the light is weak in winter, you can not shade, more than 4 hours of direct sunlight per day, you can make the plant grow well.

Cuttings propagation

Cuttings propagation can be carried out in the spring and fall, but also in each pruning, will be cut off the branches as spikes. First cut 10-15 cm long robust branches as cuttings. Then remove the lower part of the leaves, keep only the top 3 to 4 leaves, and cut the lower end into a slant. Then insert the spikes into moist river sand or perlite, spray the cuttings with water to keep them moist, and place them in a low-light, ventilated place for maintenance, and generally the cuttings can be rooted in 1 ? months.

Now it is a good season for planting and taking cuttings, you can use this time to plant or take cuttings of some beautiful gooseberries for viewing.