Develop Flower garden in 18 easy steps.
Basic Idea
Gardening is a famous hobby and very popular because it is away to get out of stress. By this way you get plenty of fresh and pure air, best for exercise and result oriented activity. Many people from all around the world cannot stick to a simple plants gardening but they want to develop a place that has a lot of beautiful flowers. Now topic starts their way to Flower gardening. Stop and hold yourself. If you think that creating a Flower garden is a simple and effortless task, you have a wrong idea. It needs a lot of hard work and Dedication. By doing the hard work and dedicate yourself you can easily generate a "work of art". If you like a create a home of flowers or garden filled flowers, you must consider surrounding climatic condition. It plays an important role in proper development of flowers. In this article I am going to discuss some of the points that must guide you in a way of creating a healthy Flower plant.
1. At first it is very necessary to record the hardiness zone of the land, you select for growing flowers. Some part of the world such as The United States of America and Canada is a country which is separated by different hardiness zones with the help of USDA ( The United State Department of Agriculture). You can find a basic difference of 10 degree Fahrenheit. With the help of the variation in the zone you can easily come to know that which type of plants survive in which hardiness zone. After knowing this you can easily buy a flower plant that must survive in your zone.
2. Next step is to choose a flower you like from the vast range of flowers plants that is available in the market. Some of the plants such as Lily with African value, Lantana, Foxtail variety lily, Butterfly. It will attract a lot of butterflies to your flower garden that increases its beauty.
3. Suppose that you still found yourself in a confusing condition about the selection of flower plant, you can take the help of an Expert and guides. These people must solve your problem by feeding you right information as well as useful tips for starting your Flower garden.
4. Some of the tips such as growing flowers in a mix pattern is really useful. This tip really increases the beauty of your flower garden with various color combinations. You have an option of choice any kind of bloomers such as Early season bloomers, Middle season bloomers and late season Bloomers. To indicate or show the alternative time for blooming the late season and early season bloomers grow side-by-side. So your garden looks perennials. Apart from this you can try many more combinations. It totally depends on your way of thinking.
5. Almost all the places you come to know that a plant has a leaf of green color but you still find a leaf with silver color. Some of the leaves reflect burgundy color. So you have an option to choose a flower plant that has various colored leaves. It increases the beauty of your garden.
6. When you actually start planting a flower plant in your garden work, you must take help from some book experts in the garden. By using this idea the older gardener finds their mistakes and record all of them for future reference. By this you too got success. At first you need to make a blueprint of your desired garden. Mention all necessary points such as The exact location of your flower garden, Kind of shape you want, Kinds of flower plants as well as a basic idea in what way you want to arrange these flowering plants. Take the help of pictures during your blue print. The picture is really easy to understand. Try to record all points in which you pass or fail. Not only this this record also helps you after a year or two. This record becomes the chronicle.
7. Suppose that you are going to use a Container to grow your flowers, be careful about the right quality of a soil. Try to grow a type of flowers that can easily resist against the changing temperature and can be easily exposed to the light of the sun. This is because all flowers plants cannot face such kind of Environmental problem. Not only this use plant that can easily grow in a Container.
8. If you use a plot of land for growing flowers, you first test the soil of garden land with the help of a Kit used for soil testing. The measuring kit can be easily available in the store that deal with garden item. If stock is unavailable, they give the address of another store from where you can get it. In any case you cannot get a measuring kit, no need to take tension you can measure the soil quality by using your hands. Soil can be tested in a way of rubbing it with two fingers of your hand. During rubbing you can easily find the amount of sand quantity present in your soil. Soil with sand particle cannot be a Good nutrient provider. If the soil stick with each other, means that the presence of a clay particle in your soil. This kind of clay rich soil is not good as it fails to penetrate the root in an easy way. The soil that richness with the equal amount of Clay particles as well as sand particle is best for growing flowers. This soil is known as the "Loam soil".
9. Next is to find the right place where you can plant your flower plant. Start the land digging work. Remove all the stones and unwanted item during your digging up to 9-12 inches. After this try to level the land with the help of a rake.
10. Now the process of tilling is done. This is a process of adding useful manure to increase the quality of soil. Manure is added up to 1-2 inches of selected land in order to increase the soil quality. If the quality of land soil is poor added more manure to make soil perfect. Suppose that the soil has a good amount of sand, use peat moss in order to improve the capacity of water retention. If the soil is of acidic type, lime is added. The way of adding all the organic requirement to the soil and mixing them nicely, you complete the process of " Soil Tilling".
11. After mixing the next work is to level the piece of land with the help of rake. Apart from this some extra useful amendments need to be added to the soil in order to increase its soil quality. By this way compost and manure along with other amendments nicely mix with soil. It prepares a land for planting.
12. Planting a plant just after adding all the necessary amendments is not the right way. Wait for a few days or at some places it extends to few weeks so that the amendments can nicely mix with the soil of the land that is selected for your flower garden. During this time perform other activities or read the books related to flower gardening. It will really make you aware about the exact time and all requirements to plant a flower.
13. After all this process it is a time for plantings a seedling. Start feeding seeds now. You need to follow a sequence of feeding seeds. The seed with small flower remain in front while the seed with bigger flower plants is remain back. You need to ensure that there is a distance of about 3-4 feet between two flowering plants or from any king of fencing or buildings. Try to maintain a distance of around 20-25 feet from the big trees. Bushes in your garden must be at a distance of around 5-6 feet from your flowers plants. Apart from this try to save your flowers plants from other problem generating spots such as Slopes, Places where water accumulates, hollow places and places contain rocks.
14. This is not a compilation of your garden work. Now you need to put an amount of Mulch around flower plant. This mulch is a half dead grass that reduces the chance of evaporation and soil erosion. But must be ensured that this mulch cannot come stock with the steam of your flower plants in your garden. Especially during the season of growing you need to maintain at least 3-4 inches of mulch around the flower plants in your garden. Try to escape from weeds. Weeds is not good for your garden. In order to add extra precaution, you need to add an extra wet piece of newspaper below the mulch in your garden.
What is a use of Mulch?
The advantages of Mulch to the soil is that the temperature remains stable, it increases the water holding capacity, It adds important nutrients as well as stop the excess weed growth.
15. Escape yourself from using a harmful chemical pesticides. If the expert advice you to do, use these chemical pesticides. Your project is on the path of Organic. No need to devote yourself to inorganic. If you want to make this project successful, try to maintain the top quality of Soil for your flower garden. If possible mix one plants with other plants. This is because a plant act as a protecting shield in the form of pesticides for other plants. Suppose that if you want to grow flowers like roses, mix it with a Garlic plant. This combination is great for your garden.
16. Suppose that you want a quick grow, it can be possible. You need an option discuss below. For doing this you need a good amount of jiffy pots that is created with the help of packed peat moss. Place this into a potting soil. Next you need to sow the seeds of the flower. After that search a part of your house where the pots gain the maximum amount of sunlight. Place the pot in your house till it attain the height of around 5 inches. Now put this jiffy pot outside the house at a place at a right position. After a few days the jiffy pots swallow and the flower plant in the pots is completely mixed with the natural soil. If you want extra information, you can get it from a seed packet. On the back side of a seed packet the important information such as the way of sowing seeds, the minimum distance to be maintained between flowers plants and other idea. If you buy a Seeds, it should be planted as early as you can plant.
17. Many of the beginner gardener do have an idea in what way they can prepare a compost for their plant. To understand your problem I am discussing some of the useful tips about organic manure or compost. What is the real difference between the Organic and inorganic matter/manure? Organic manure can be prepared or collected from the dead remaining parts of animals and plants. These all remain decomposed into a manure that is good for the soil. After the feeding of manure the soil is rich with various useful vitamins and various other nutrients. Due to this it increases the fertility of plants and help the plant to grow faster and healthier. So this is the organic way to increase the quality of soil by adding more and more organic manure or compost to plants. It is an organic way for growing flowers. By this way you garden remain safe including its area that surround your garden. The process of preparing compost and manure is easy and simple. Another advantage is that it is going to save a good amount of money for buying a manure from the market. You can also save your important time. By doing this you are going to save the environment by collecting all unwanted and damaged things and used them as a manure or compost. Suppose that the land of your garden contains a large amount of sand in your plot, soil is playing an important role in holding the amount of water. Not only this if the land contains large amount of clay, the manure increase the draining capacity of your land soil. And at last manure provide the large amount of soil's nutrients. This nutrient is very essential for the proper growth of flowers.
18. At last every gardener must know the way of preparing manure and compost for their garden. I am discussing the fact about the preparation of compost in detail. First of all you need to prepare a pit by digging. After digging collect all the waste organic matter from your surroundings and fill in that pit. Waste such as Dead leaves, leaves of tea, Peels of banana, dead grass, dead branches of a tree, totally chopped leaves of trees, plants for your garden that has no use in the future or finish their season, weeds, Kitchen wastage as well as papers and newspapers too. You must aware that not to include a piece of animal bones or meat used as eating. The quantity should in small amount. If it exceeds, use a tool shredder in order to reduce the quantity of wastes into the pit. After filling the waste material to a certain height of around 6-8 inch, you need to add a prepared manure or compost in order to cover this pit. Must maintain a height of layer of manure around 3-5 inches. This is a repeated process. Mans repeat the process of filling organic waste and manure or compost several times. The height of this process must in between 3-4 feet. The process of piling must begin at a shady place at the first stage. Must notice its dryness. If it becomes dry good to use a little amount of water over this. Not make it a soggy. By this process a heat is generated. This heat is used to sterilize the developing manure or compost. At a regular interval of time continue the training process of the pile in order to provide oxygen to every corner of the pile. When the generation of heat is ending, it means the pile is prepared for further use. Now you can easily use this manure or compost for planting a plant. This prepared pile can be used as many forms such as Mulch form, Soil improvement form and manure. This can be used as it is prepared because if you delay, it looses its necessary nutrients. By using all this above points you are successfully complete the way of generating an organic garden with ease.
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