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Cultivating Ones Very Own Fresh Flowers At Home

By: Jacob Smithson Jr.

When Valentine's Day, or any other holiday rolls around, you may notice that the price of flowers jumps a bit. Although the cost may make you blink it probably doesn't stop you all that much when it comes to paying. After all, you're giving them to a special friend or to a special event and the additional costs are well worth the smiles and joy that will likely result. But, when you think about it, fresh flowers are a year round adventure that can bring joy to everybody on every day of the year. Use a garden box or a backyard plot of land. It's not too arduous if you go about it right and is sort of fun and restful as you go about it.

Where to produce your own fresh flowers

For the most part, you are bound by the environmental district that you mean to grow in. If you have the space, you can grow fresh flowers in a green house, or a hothouse but you can also grow flowers on your bathroom window sill. Really, fresh flowers can be grown year round just about everywhere but outside in your personal yard space is best and most enjoyable. What you do need is a good patch of earth that has not been used as a construction waste zone where soil conditions may be very poor. Start by taking a sample of your earth to the garden center or educational outreach center for evaluation and add amendments as necessary. From a different perspective, just go to the garden center and stock up on organic fertilizer and grow the fresh flowers from this medium.

What type of flowers to grow

There are; annual flowers which flower for one season and then are done, perennial flowers which bloom season after season and biennial flowers which flower in the second year and are done. All are great flowers but if you're going to do it correctly you may as well go for the perennials that come back year after year. As you chose the fresh flowers you'll be farming consider the climate they prefer and time them through the year. If a flower typically comes out in early spring plan and plant for that blooming time. As the season progresses plant according to that time in parts of your garden that give that flower optimum growing conditions for the time that the flower blooms. For instance; roses tend to really come into form in mid-winter. They bloom from early summer to fall but really hit their stride in mid-fall. Plan for this part of the year, but understand that cutting and giving them occurs through the season. Additionally, cutting them actually makes them bloom more and look better for the peak season.

A $150 hole for a $20 plant

Ideally, you will want to plant once and then tend your flower garden year after year. The positioning part is the difficult part so doing it once is the better way to go about it. Make your hole a bit deeper then the plant root ball and a few inches wider. Put some organic fertiliser in the bottom and a bit up the sides. Make another hole in the organic fertiliser to put the plant. The top of the plant rootball should be just above ground level. Fill in with more organic fertiliser pressing out any air pockets in the manure infill. Make a soil dish around the plant to hold water. Give the plant Nitro0gen feed once a month.

Feed and cut

Once the plant is established, after a couple of months or so, it will need feeding and care. When a flowering plant does flower it uses up quite a bit of energy and will need this energy has to be renewed. For the most part, the main nutrient needed is Nitrogen. Potash and Potassium are also needed so check the back of the seed pack or a plant info tag for required amounts. Cut on a regular basis to promote growth but be careful to not over cut for a full year of flowers.

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