5 Tips For Growing a Healthy Organic Flower Garden


Believe it or not, just having the basic knowledge of how to care for your organic flower garden can truly be the determining factor when it comes to the presentation and health of your plants. Here are a few simple tips to make your organic flower garden bloom with health:

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Tip#1

A major perquisite should ALWAYS be the fundamentals . . .

Essential to healthy growth, it is imperative that you have enough water, sunlight, and fertile soil and the absence of these basic conditions can and will greatly affect the health of plants. Water flower garden more frequently during dry periods. When planting bulbs, make sure you go right into the depths. When planting shrubs and perennials, make sure you do not heap soil or mulch around the stem. If not, the water runs off instead of sinking, and in particular to develop rot overheating.

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Tip#2

Annuals with perennials formulate a good mix . . .  

Just be aware that perennial flower bulbs need not be replanted since they grow and bloom for several years while they grow and bloom year for a while. If you mix some annuals        with you perennials you will be guaranteed to always have flowers coming.

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Tip#3

You will get more blossoms from Deadheading . . .

Deadheading is merely snipping off the flower head after it has wilted. By consistently doing this you will make the plant produce more flowers. Be careful to make sure that you don't throw the deadheads on the garden or it can cause mildew and other plant diseases to attack your plants.

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Tip#4

Know the Good Guys . . . 

Unknownst to many, the vast majority of garden insects do a lot more good than they do harm. Butterflies, beetles and bees are known as the pollinators because they fertilize plants through unintentional transfer of pollen from one plant to another. Up to 75% of flowering plants rely on insects for their survival. 

Aphids

By fortifying your soil and making nutrients more available to growing plants is accomplished thru sowbugs and dung beetles. Together with fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms these are the good guys that are necessary to help in the decomposition of dead plant material.

Lacewings

However it is important that you are aware that other insects like lacewings and dragonflies which are natural predators of those insects that do the real damage, like aphis.


An occasional application of liquid fertilizer when plants are flowering will keep them blooming for longer.

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Tip#5

  Prune, Prune, Prune

Always prune dead buds, branches and leaves.  There are those that you will have to handle more carefully than others while pruning, such as Fuchsia.  Fushsias are particularly prone to snapping when you brush against them so use caution when pruning. Just know that the broken branch can be potted up to give you a new plant, so with that being said . . .

GOOD GROWIN!