Bracken

Bracken Care

Pteridium Aquilinum

What is the plant

Bracken fern uses may be somewhat limited in the garden, but once you’ve found the right spot and the proper use for them, they are easy to get started. Growing bracken fern in gardens is often not a good idea because it can usually out compete other plants growing in the same area. Bracken ferns in gardens and other areas are attractive plants with delicate looking fronds. Plants normally reach from 3 to 4 feet (1 m.) in height, but they may grow up to 7 feet (2 m.). The fronds appear early in spring. Foliage grows from underground rhizomes that spread quickly, so much so that most other plants attempting to share the same soil are occasionally quickly overtaken. If one of your chosen bracken fern uses is as part of a woodland garden, expect them to spread through the wooded area. Bracken fern uses may be in rock gardens, edging for wooded areas, and anywhere a large, ferny specimen is needed and will not crowd out most ornamentals.

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Humidity

Dry

Lighting

Part Sun

Hardiness zone

4 - 7

Difficulty

Easy

Hibernation

Cold Period

Toxicity

Poisonous

How to Care for the Plant

Water
Avoid watering from above, which can cause the moisture to splash onto the leaves of your ferns. instead, aim the water you give your ferns at the soil above their roots. It will trickle down into the root zone, where your ferns can absorb it and put it to use.
Pruning
Dead fronds and leaves can be removed.
Fertilizer
Universal fertilizer is granular and mineral product intended for fertilization of all types of garden cultivations. Its balanced content is suitable both for fruit trees, fruit bushes, vegetables and ornamental plants. The even composition of individual elements makes the fertilizer universal.

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Sunlight
Needs a lot of sunlight, but it has to be protected from the strongest rays of the sun. In a south-facing window, blinds should be shading it form direct light. An east facing window, where the sun disappears after about 10 AM, is a good choice as is a west facing window where the plant will receive afternoon sun.
Soil
Loose, light, humus soil is ideal for this plant.
Temperature
It is hardy to zone (UK) 4.

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Container
Use a ceramic porous pot with a good drainage.
Additional
There are a number of reports regarding the possible health risks of this plant. The huge quantity of spores released by large areas of bracken are suggested to be implicated in stomach cancers. A recent study suggests that this is not such a problem in Britain as was once believed, the spores are not produced in such high quantities nor do they travel so far due to our normally humid atmosphere. The leaves and roots contain substances that deprive the body of vitamin B1 if they are eaten raw, though they are possibly alright cooked[102]. The leaves are also said to be carcinogenic
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