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When is the best time to start a vegetable and flower garden?
I am looking to start my first garden,but don't know where to begin,I would like to plant some flowers and some vegetables.(tomatoes,cucumbers,beans,cil… ect..)
it is never to late to start a garden . gardens need plenty of sunlight . so having a small garden with the proper amount of light /water will produce better results than a larger garden with less desirable qualities. as for vegetables some a better started as plants ( tomato ,peppers ,etc ) if you live in some cooler zones as these can be started indoors in the late winter and be strong and ready for transplanting by the time the last freeze has past . you can find what zone you live in by going to a reputable garden site or even calling you county cooperative extension . some plants are better to start as seeds directly in your garden . trial and error will make you a better gardener . placing plants the proper distance apart etc .some example of some good sites are below .
You should be getting the soil ready NOW. As the other person said, the actual time will depend on where you are, and to some extent on what you are planting, but you do need to get started getting ready, so that you can plant at the right time.
For some places, and some plants, that's NOW. for areas that freeze, after Mother's Day is a good rule of thumb.
When is the best time to start a vegetable and flower garden?
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The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous ColorThe gardener's fantasy of colorful blooms that begin in early spring and continue through the last glow of fall is now an achievable reality. With a little careful planning and the fun-to-use formulas in The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden, season-spanning spectacular color is more attainable than ever before. Author Lee Schneller developed her blueprint system when she began designing gardens professionally, and she has successfully applied it to more than 150 gardens. Now she brings her proven system to gardeners everywhere who continue to chase that elusive dream of perpetual bloom.
Schneller's system is a wonder of organization and information - packed with checklists and questionnaires, planning equations and plant characteristics. Yet for all its wealth of information, gardeners of every level will find Schneller's techniques simple to use and her blueprints fun to customize. Readers choose from a list of 220 low-maintenance plants organized by bloom month and supported by a Flower Catalog with basic growing information and photos of all 220 plants.
By following five simple steps, readers develop a unique garden design featuring personally chosen plants that deliver height, color, and tons of blooms all season long. For added convenience, the completed planning chart also serves as a plant shopping list.
Once the blueprint has been created, Schneller helps readers put the plan to work, offering advice on shopping, planting, and finally, enjoying and maintaining the garden.
Praise for the book:"The book lives up to its title: It is a blueprint for continuous color in the garden (at least from early spring to fall). There is instruction on mapping it all out on a grid -- and also instructions for those who don't want to put pen to paper. Don't be daunted; I'm not a mathematical person, but it makes sense to me. Lee Schneller, who has designed and built more than 150 gardens in Maine since 1995, takes you through the five steps to continuous color, including grabbing graph paper and a pen and checking out the plant palette and flower catalog in the back of the book. I particularly liked the flower catalog, which lists more than 200 trusty perennials selected for, among other things, their hardiness, attractive flowers and foliage, and long bloom time. The flower catalog provides the bloom period of each in a useful, graphical way. My only wish is that Schneller would publish a follow-up flower catalog for those who want more." -Ann Robinson, oregonlive.com 05/06/09
"If you, like me, love color in the garden, both for admiring and cutting, you'll pick up The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden. The book lives up to its title: it IS a blue print for continuous color in the garden." - New York Newsday
"The book is divided into five parts, which follow a logical path to allow any homeowner with some basic growing skills to create an attractive continuously blooming flower garden."
-- Portland Press Herald, 7/14/09
