Friday, February 19, 2016

Early Flowers


Sweet Peas

These climbing vines are a great flower for the cutting garden in the spring.
Learning to be a flower grower is always a challenge, but it is what gets me out
side early in the morning. 

This is a fairly new flower for me as I just started growing these last year.
Last year I grew a small amount of these, but my soil was not quite where it needed to be.
Working with the Kentucky soil has been a challenge but not nothing I can't handle.
 This year I am hoping for a larger amount of these stunning beauties.
 I have a couple of years working the soil. 
Some of the things that I have done to lighten up my soil is putting sand, peat moss,
manure, and straw consecutively for 3 years now.  
  Some of the books I have read about this cut flower is that it needs lots of organic matter and light soil is necessary.

When you get close to flower your first instinct is to smell the flower.
It is always a let down when the flowers are beautiful but have no scent.
 On this little piece of land we will strive to grow flowers that have a scent.

 These are supposed to be good choice of the early season cut flowers.  



The one thing that is going to give you a good root growth before
 you plant them outside is starting them inside weeks ahead of time.
You will want to soak the seeds overnight in a small amount of water.

 Of course don't forget to label the different kinds, you will not remember the next day.

Happy Growing!

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