How To Plant A Cut Flower Garden

Pink Gin Sugar Plum and and Cafe Creme are a few of my favorite varieties.

How to plant a cut flower garden. This cut should be at a 45-degree angle. The Higgledy clan have been designing and creating cut flower gardens since prehistory and certainly at least one of us was a time traveller from the futureso it is hard to yet ascertain just how long weve been at it. I think I am right it saying it was my great ancestor Iohannes Fluke-Higgledy who was the head of flower production at the monastery on Lindisfarne in the 13th Century.

Carry along a clean bucket of water and a sharp pair of shears. My space is about 6 feet wide x 26 feet long. From midseason on keep at a dozen or more 3 ft.

In fact growing a row or two of flowers in your vegetable garden is an easy way to get started. Find the best spot for your garden. Generally I start my annual cut flowers inside under my grow-lights around 6 to 8 weeks before our last expected frost.

Parts of the plant are deadly if ingested. This makes it easy to determine out how many plants can be squeezed into each row. Ideally your flower garden should be watered in the morning hours so that they have time for the roots to soak up the water before the heat of the day.

Youll want to create wide rows of plants with walking rows in between to make it easier for you to weed care for them and cut. How to maintain a cut flower garden. Harvesting the flowers in the early morning after the dew has dried or the late evening is the best time.

You can also buy annual. Most cut flowers need lots of sunshine so keep that in mind when determining where to place your garden. Plants need regular water and its important to make sure you dont over or under water.