Blue Zinger Carex Groundcover Plants for Sale Online

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. We recommend feeding your Carex Blue Zinger in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. Bio-tone starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as Espoma Plant-tone at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth. Follow this up with another early summer application of Espoma Flower-Tone, this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects.

Remove the old flowers of Carex Blue Zinger as they become brown and unattractive but this is not necessary as the berried covered stems provide added interest in the landscape. This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Carex Blue Zinger plants to produce new foliage, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season. Cutting Carex Blue Zinger to within 2 inches of the ground in winter helps the plant produce a new flush of foliage. Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger foliage.

We highly recommend that you mulch your Carex Blue Zinger with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of the plant with mulch. Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant. One of the main reasons to plant Carex Blue Zinger is to reduce the amount of money you spend each year on mulch. One established Carex Blue Zinger will reduce your mulch cost and also labor year after year as it creates a dense mat of evergreen ground cover foliage.

Carex Blue Zinger reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. Fall pruning, especially in warmer climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly.