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How To Plant Annuals In Your Garden
Many novice gardeners don’t know the difference between an annual and a perennial and what does it matter, after all a flower Is a flower, right? Not hardly! You’ll probably want to include both annuals and perennials in your garden. Perennials will grow year after year but only bloom for a short time. Annuals, on the other hand will bloom for the entire season however they’ll die off at the end of the year and you’ll have to replant them again the next year.
While this might sound like a lot to work annuals will offer you the widest choice of beautiful vibrant color and styles which is why many gardeners go through the work year after year of planting, and after all isn’t that part of the fun of having a garden?
When choosing your annuals you want to be aware that some bloom in the spring, some in the summer and some in the fall. you want to be sure to plant your annuals at the appropriate time - Viola’s pantheon snapdragons can be planted in the early sparring and impatience and petunias should be planted later on in the summer.
Choosing and Planting Your Annuals
While you can grow your annuals from seed, most people just go down to the local nursery and pick them up are ready growing most of them will probably already be in bloom so you can see what they look like. however, If you choose one’s that are full of bugs that have blossomed yet you will have the maximum life of the plant and get to see these beautiful flowers blooming for the first time in your garden. When choosing them, look for soil that is moist but not overly wet as excessive wetness can promote disease in your flowers. Be sure the soil is into dry either as that is not good for the young plants in these will have a harder time just surviving the transplanting.
You want to be sure to buy good-quality annuals are set fees flowers are actually fragile and if they weren’t raised in good conditions then they’re probably not to do so well in your garden. Be sure you buy them from a reputable source.
To give them the best chance for survival plant them in loose soil that is well fertilized. Efficient motion fertilizer which contains the appropriate amounts of potassium phosphorus and nitrogen as well as other nutrients is usually good for annuals. the fertileizer package should tell you when to apply and in what amounts.
You can plant your annuals close to each other and this will provide maximum color impact on the site you have to be sure that each has adequate soil, nutrients and water. If you’re not sure how close you can plant them check out some wildflowers growing better densely packed together and model you’re planting after that as you see, nature has long ago discovered how much sunlight water in room flowers need to survive.
when you plant them, dig a hole that is deep enough so that the roots of the annual will be underground. The top line of the soil should be about where it was when they were in a container. Gently remove the flower from its container and crumble the soil around the roots into the whole spreading out the roots just a bit. Place the gently in the whole cover over with dirt and water.
Don't worry too much if all your plants don’t make it the first time. As you become more experienced you’ll know better what to do but some plants will just die no matter what any annuals don’t cost a lot so you can just go buy more to fill in the gaps.
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