If you're planning on adding some wildflowers to your Spring gardening, I have some tips to get you started.
- If you're starting your wildflower garden on an area that's already grassy or full of unwanted plants, you can kill the plants by putting down about six to eight layers of wet newspaper. After a month to a month and a half, you'll have a weed- and grass-free area to plant seeds or seedlings upon. You can shred the newspaper to use as mulch (it's good for your soil), or, you can compost it.
- If you're planting a small area, you can use seedlings instead of seeds.
- Make sure to sow your seeds when danger of frost is past.
- If you plant perennial seeds in spring or summer, do not expect flowers to bloom that year.
- Annuals will grow and bloom quickly, but will then die with the first frost. To make your wildflower garden pretty the first year, you may want to supplement perennial wildflowers with some annuals.
- Wildflowers look best in a semi-natural spot, such as on the edges of your lawn, close to trees, or by a field.
- Wildflowers love sunny spots, so plan accordingly!
- For convenience's sake, you may want to make sure your garden hose can reach your wildflowers.
- Some of your wildflower seeds may germinate in as few as eight days, while others may not appear for months. That's part of the fun though, and it will give you something to look forward to every day!
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Are those black-eyed Susans?? So pretty...
1does the tip about the newspaper really work? even on weeds?
2So pretty!
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