A flower garden can turn your yard into a colorful showcase. What better than planting and raising your flowers for summer by yourself.
The world of gardening has endless possibilities for those who want to examine it. You can choose from outdoor gardening, indoor gardening, cultivating exotic herbs, growing bonsais, landscaping, and thus the list is endless.
Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular every year. It gives anyone a great reason to enjoy outdoors.
You can go to the store and buy some summer flowers that are ready to be displayed in your house. But there is a guaranteed satisfaction of planting and raising your flowers.
Flower gardening is simple, inexpensive, and loads of fun. And it’s colorful! Colors affect our mood and spiritual well-being, and they reveal our personalities.
Here are a handful of tips to keep in mind when planting your summer flowers this season.
1. Prepare the soil
Take the time well ahead of when you plan to plant the seeds to prepare the soil you will use.
Dig about 6 inches deep and give the soil a proper turning over. Be sure to add fertilizer, mulch, or compost to get the nutrients into the land that your flowers will want.
Do this ahead of time. Then when you start to plant, you don’t have to worry about the soil. You can plant your flowers without a need to spend extra hours making the soil. A little preparation can save you a tremendous amount of time later.
2. Plant by Size
If you’re planting your flowers against a wall, plant the taller ones (like sunflowers) back against the wall, with the smaller ones farther away from the wall. If you’re establishing your garden into an open space, plant the taller ones in the center, with the smaller ones circulating out from there.
That arrangement allows for all the plants to get enough sunlight. They need not to fight with each other. And all of your flowers will be visible to both you and anybody else that might enjoy your garden.
3. Plant Plenty
To prepare for the losses caused by insects and birds, plant the seeds closer than recommended on the package, as well as plant more than you expect to grow. Weather, wildlife, and any variety of other causes leave you with fewer plants than you put into the ground.
Plant extra so you don’t have to worry about a scattered garden when everything blossoms.
4. Choose Colorful Flowers
There are many colorful summer flowers out there: petunias, sunflowers, marigolds, and cosmos, to name a few. There’s no reason that your summer garden should be anything less than a bright spot of color.
Don’t limit your garden to one type of flower or one color scheme. Mix and match and brighten up your backyard with bright and colorful summer flowers. They will be a pleasure for you and your family all season long.
5. Enjoy
The most important part of planting your garden this summer season is to make sure you enjoy it and have fun with it. Plant lots of flowers, plant more than one lot, get your family involved, get your neighbors involved, plant in patterns.
Whatever you want to do to make sure that your flowers are something that you enjoy. And enjoy your flowers when you turn the soil, and when you sit back and watch them bloom.
I believe that there are no secrets to becoming successful in life or gardening. Success in life is the result of hard work, as in gardening. But flower gardening is easy: decide what to plant, plant it, and water.
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