A Beginner's Guide to Annuals and Biennials: Essential guide for A Beautiful Garden

A Beginner's Guide to Annuals and Biennials: Essential guide for A Beautiful Garden

by Dueep J. Singh
Publication Date: 28/01/2016

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Table of Contents


A Beginner’s Guide to Annuals and Biennials

Introduction

Choosing the Right Soil

Soil Color and Fertility

Humus

Preparation of the Soil

Best Time for Seed Sowing

The Thinning Process

Staking Your Annuals

Why Mulch?

Cultivation and Maintenance

Watering your Plants

List of Hardy annuals

Half Hardy Annuals

Annuals Suitable for Cutting Purposes –

Annuals for autumn blooming –

Half Hardy Annuals for Edging Your Border

Knowing More about Biennials

Sowing the seeds

Preparing the Ground

List of Popular Biennials

Conclusion

Author’s Bio

Publisher


Introduction


There are far too many people out there who are under the impression that you cannot have a beautiful garden without spending huge amounts of money. That is so not true. A little bit of planning and this fallacy is going to fall to pieces by the wayside. Those who are grown annuals for years are going to give this statement the lie gladly.


Their initial investment must have been just a packet of seeds. The next year, the plants were grown from the seeds collected from the previous years’ crop.

Do not forget that the life of an annual is limited to just 12 months and so you must not expect them to grow up and bloom again the next year, unless of course you allowed the seeds to lie in the bed without collecting them. That is when they are going to bloom up just like weeds with a little bit of rain, and with the coming of the spring.


One of the great advantages of annuals is that they are quite easy to grow and flourish in your garden over a long period. The most common are well known to even amateur gardeners who can recognize a cornflower, nasturtiums, Virginia stock and Candytuft. These are very beautiful in themselves, but every gardener is growing them in his garden.


So be a little adventurous and grow annuals that are lesser-known, whose names you will find in seed catalogs, nursery catalogs and in nurseries online.

There are two kinds of annuals – the hardy kind and the half hardy kind. The hardy annuals are sewn out of doors, either in the autumn are in the spring. The half-hardy annuals are normally raised in frames or under cloches if you are subject to a continuous frost. Half-hardy annuals may need a little bit more of extra care and coddling , but that extra is going to be worth it when you see the blossoms in your garden.

ISBN:
9781311406170
9781311406170
Category:
Gardening: flowers
Publication Date:
28-01-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Mendon Cottage Books

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