When Valentine's Day, or any holiday rolls around, you may notice that the price of flowers jumps a bit. Although the cost may make you blink it probably doesn't slow you down all that much when it comes to paying. After all, you're giving them to that very special person or to a special event and the additional costs are well worth the smiles and joy that may likely result. But, when you think about it, flowers are a year round adventure that can bring joy to everybody on every day of the year. Use a garden box or a backyard plot of land. It's not too awkward if you go about it in the correct manner and is sort of fun and relaxing as you go about doing it.


Where to raise your own fresh flowers

For the most part, you are encumbered by the environmental structure that you thought to grow in. If you have the space, you can grow flowers in a greenhouse, or a hothouse but you can also grow fresh flowers on your bedroom window sill. Really, flowers can be grown year round just about everywhere but outside in your personal yard space is best and most enjoyable. What you do need is a good patch of soil that has not been used as a construction waste zone where dirt conditions are extremely poor. Start by taking a sample of your earth to the grounds center or educational outreach centre for evaluation and add amendments as necessary. From a different position, just go to the yard centre and stock up on organic fertilizer and grow the flowers from this medium.


Which fresh flowers to grow

There are; annual flowers which flower for one season and are done, perennial flowers which bloom year after year and biennial flowers which flower in the 2nd year and are done. All are great flowers but if you're going to do it correctly you may as well go for the perennials that come back season after season. As you chose the flowers you'll be farming consider the climate they prefer and time them through the year. If a flower typically comes out in early spring plan and plant for that blooming time. As the year progresses plant according to that time in parts of your garden that give that flower optimum growing conditions for the time that the flower blooms. For instance; carnations tend to really come into form in mid-fall. They bloom from early summer to fall but really hit their stride in mid-spring. Plan for this part of the year, but understand that cutting and giving them occurs through the season. Additionally, cutting them actually makes them bloom more and look better for the peak season.


A $125 hole for a $10 plant

Ideally, you will want to plant once and then tend your flower garden year after year. The positioning part is the arduous part so doing it once is the better way to go about it. Make your hole a bit deeper then the plant root ball and a few inches wider. Put some organic fertilizer in the bottom and a bit up the sides. Make another hole in the organic fertilizer to put the plant. The top of the plant rootball should be just above ground level. Fill in with more manure pressing out any air pockets in the manure infill. Make a soil dish around the plant to hold water. Give the plant Nitro0gen feed once a month.


Feed and cut

Once the plant is constituted, after a couple of months or so, it will need feeding and care. When a flowering plant does flower it uses up quite a bit of energy and will need this energy needs to be renewed. For the most part, the main nutrient required is Nitrogen. Potash and Potassium are also needed so check the back of the seed pack or a plant info tag for required amounts. Cut on a regular basis to promote growth but be aware to not over cut for a full year of flowers.