The Best Way to Plant Your Seeds Indoors so They are Easy to Transplant Outside
May 3, 2009
Transplanting seedlings is something that many people do in the springtime to jumpstart their flower gardens. In many climates, the last frost or free comes late in the year, making it hard to plant flowers outdoors that will bloom in their first year. If you live in a cold climate and haven’t been able to plant seeds outdoors yet, planting seeds indoors can be done quickly and easily, giving your plants a head start on this year’s growth. Read more
How to Deadhead Your Garden Flowers
April 22, 2009
If you have planted early flowers this spring, you may soon need to deadhead them to ensure the best growth of your plants throughout their growing season. For many flowers, deadheading helps the plant to produce more flowers. In many cases, it allows the flowers that are blooming to get more light than if they had dead flowers blocking their sunlight. Read more
Sowing and Growing my Favorite Flower - Blanketflower
April 9, 2009
Anyone who is looking for an unusual-looking flower that will attract attention from anyone who sees it should certainly consider the Blanketflower. It is my personal all time favorite flower. These flowers are not only easy to grow, they grow into massive blooms that are brightly-colored and have an interesting structure with multi-colored petals and a center cone. Read more
2 Free Packets of Seeds for the First 10 People
January 10, 2009
We are giving away 2 packets of seeds to the first 10 people that go over to www.cheapseeds.com and put 2 packets or more of seeds into the shopping cart. Enter 2 in the coupon box on the first page of check out. The coupon is worth $6.00. If you buy more than $6.00 worth of seeds it will just deduct it from your order. Shipping is always FREE so the 2 flower seed packets cost you nothing. Hurry up and get over there before they are gone.
If you happen to want to buy a lot of seeds use coupon 121 to get 15 pecent off your whole order.
Save Your Flower Seeds For Next Year
November 18, 2008
Save Flower Seeds For Next Year.
A great way to get free flower seeds for next year is to pick seeds from your own flowers in the fall. After the flower blooms and dies back the seeds will form in the middle of the flower. When the seed pod is tried out but before it drops the seeds on the ground you should cut the stem of the flower and shake the seeds into a bag or on a newspaper. If they don’t come off easily you can rub the pods between your hands to get them to open up. Read more
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
Annual Flower Seeds
October 10, 2008
Annual flowers experience one season of sprouting, blooming and growing before dying once the cold weather sets in. The most economical way for you is to use annual flower seeds instead of plants. You can get 1,000 seeds for what on plant would cost. Most of them don’t need regular fertilizing and are relatively easy to care for. Just a little fertilizer at the time the seeds are planted is generally enough for the year. And because annuals don’t last through the winter, there is no need to take any special winter precautions for them. They bloom, bring beauty to a garden, container or flower bed and then make way for other plants and flowers the following year.
With annual flowers, you are free to experiment with many different types of flowers to see which ones you enjoy most. If you find that one type is difficult to maintain, simply don’t plant that one the next year. There is no commitment when you grow annual plants. You can easily have a completely different garden from one year to the next without having to transplant the old flowers elsewhere to make room for new ones.
Annuals come in every imaginable color and can add a breathtaking array of flower sizes and shapes to a garden. They require very little maintenance and grow into lush green plants that will bring a garden to life with blooming flowers.
Keep Gardening. Jeff
