Flowers From Seeds
October 12, 2008
Growing flowers from seeds is a very different experience from buying and planting an established plant. When you buy a plant, it has been grown from seed by someone else and will be deeply affected by how it was cared for during that time. In many cases, the buyer gets the plant home only to find out that it isn’t healthy and has been kept too long in a small pot.When a gardener plants flowers from seeds, their own care and nurturing determines how the plant will grow. In most cases, simply growing them in the ground or a plant container instead of in the tiny pots that many commercial growers use will mean having healthier plants.When you decide to start growing flowers from seeds, prepare the soil by removing the grass, weeds and other plants from the area. Break up the top inch of the soil with a rake or tiller. Mix a little bit of sand in with your flower seeds in order to have a better idea of where your seeds land as you sprinkle them onto the soil. Sprinkle a very light layer of soil over the seeds or use a rake to lightly mix the seeds into the soil. Read the directions for each seed packet to find out how much water they require. After they begin to sprout, your seeds probably won’t need much more care in order to produce strong, healthy plants.
Keep Gardening. Jeff
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