How to Plant Annual Flowers
Below you will find a simple, yet complete guide with directions on how to plant your annual flowers. Annual flowers are normally planted in or around November when it's cooler and dryer, until around February. Please take care when lifting heavy items or plants. You should check with a doctor prior to your landscape activity to verify you are fit to complete the work involved. If you know right from now you want to hire a professional service to design and install your annual flowering plants click here.
Guide on "How to plant Annual Flowers"
1. Plant availability needs to be checked first at the local annual flower nurseries, so you know what is available for install.
2. Start with a plan, or at least a firm idea of which varieties will go where and how many will be used.
3. Time to go shopping. Select the healthiest plants available for use and purchase an amount that satisfies the quantity needed from the previous step.
4. Transport your flowers in a manner that they are not subdued to smashing or hard winds.
5. Next the planting areas should be prepared with a light, aerated and balanced potting soil, plus a light application of fertilizer should be incorporated into the soil.
6. When planting the delicate small flowering plants, care is needed while removing them from their containers so the base does not break away from the roots.
7. During installation make sure they are planted about a 1/4 - 3/8 inch higher than your prepared soils level.
8. Keep the base and the area around them clean and free of mulch or any type of debris.
NOTE: At this point depending on the variety of the plant used, a light granular fungicide application may be required, and if you wish to use snail bait in your garden, try and use it around other more hardier plants to draw the snails AWAY from your soft delicate annual flowers, and not towards them.
9. Last step to planting your flowers is to lightly but thoroughly water them in, and water them again only once the first inch of soil beneath them is fairly dry. Watering frequency will depend on light conditions and or breeze conditions.
NOTE: Most annuals can not withstand a hard frost or long periods of freezing temperatures, so covering them with freeze cloth or a very light material like a bed sheet will be needed to cover them up during the coldest temperatures. Remove cover if possible once temperatures rise above freezing.
WARNING: YOU SHOULD NOT USE PLASTIC TO COVER YOUR PLANTS!
If you insist for any reason on using plastic, you MUST take it off before exposed to to much sunlight, or you can fry your investment.
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