June has been glorious in 2022! The #gardentrick to keeping that going is
"dead-heading" - Awful word for a nifty task. Your plants are made to set
seeds. When they flower and make seeds - THEY ARE DONE! Job over, no more
work for them. Interrupting that cycle is what brings on wave after wave of the
color that you crave.
#ProvenWinner annuals need a special liquid fertilizer with high nitrogen
or one marked 20-20-20 on the label or #Bloombooster will do nicely.
Weekly feeding for container plants, and monthly for those in the ground will
perk things up regularly.
#Supertunias that cascade over your pots and walls are spectacular if you use this
method: Lift up those long skirts and cut 2 or 3 of the longest stems-- right up near the
soil level -- and remove them. Wait 2 weeks and do that again. You will 'fool' the plant
into thinking it hasn't made enough flowers and it will put out extra effort to BLOOM again.
Roses also like to be trimmed like that. Even #Kockout roses. They respond beautifully
to food and removing the old blossoms. I am a lazy gardener, so I use a hose end #miraclegro
feeder, and #fiskars plant shears to trim off the top layers of the roses. It only hurts for a few
days, then here they bloom again,
mjlent gardener