Beginner Cut Flower Garden Plans
This year I have decided to forgo a vegetable garden and try a cut flower garden. Over the last several years I have had barely any luck growing vegetables. 😩 I live in a zone 4 with an extremely short growing season. By the time I have learned what went wrong… too late! I have to wait six months to try again. 🙄 It’s utterly annoying so I am growing what makes me happiest which is flowers and what is worth my time and money because gardening can be an investment after you add up all the costs of the soil,
and seeds
or seedlings
and compost
and hoses
and trellises
and sprinklers
and grow lights
and planters
but it’s worth it in the end if you’re growing what you love … and harvesting the thing you love. It sucks when you’re not. Here is my plan for my beginner cut flower garden!
This is my first time purchasing seeds online. I bought them last fall and stored them in my freezer. Please God, let them still be viable. I was told storing them in the freezer was the thing to do. So I did it. And now I’m scared. What if they don’t germinate? Please germinate.
I discovered square foot gardening so I measured my garden bed and created a scale and drew a picture to help me with the layout of my flower bed. If I understood correctly, I divide the spacing recommendation by twelve and that tells me how many plants to put in each square foot.
I then wrote down each flower from shortest to tallest. The shortest flowers in the front. The tallest flowers in the back. None of these should be shaded by other plants… I hope.
After I calculated how many plants go in each square foot, I doubled the amount and added 20% extra. I doubled the amount so that I would have a 50% percent chance of germination in each cell. I added 20% extra incase I had some that didn’t make it to transplant.
On the back of each package I wrote down the day I needed to start my seed tray. I googled my last frost date (May 14, 2023) and then googled 12 weeks before May 14,
and 8 weeks before May 14,
and 6 weeks before May 14,
and 4 weeks before May 14,
which was way easier and faster than counting backwards on a calendar. I did that last year. It took forever and I ended up in the wrong year.
Anyways, this makes sense doesn’t it?
I think it does.
xo L.
