Do you find the raised beds work better for cutting gardens.
Cut flower garden in raised beds.
Because these flowers are annuals cutting them often is helpful and even necessary to keep the plants blooming until frost.
You may want to tuck it in between some of your more beautiful vegetables such as long producing indeterminate tomatoes or come and cut greens.
In my cutting garden i can walk through the rows picking anything in sight.
It was a big undertaking though.
It s joined by easy growing annuals calibrachoa zinnia salvia euphorbia marigold and cleome.
Feel free to substitute with your own favorite flowers.
Cutting gardens by anne halpin and betty mackey is an excellent guidebook for planning growing and arranging flowers here s a partial list of some of the plants to consider for your garden.
Amaranthus produces gorgeous tassel like flowers each fall that look great in arrangements both fresh cut and dried.
Direct sowing into the ground works good with some things.
This garden is designed for a 7 foot by 7 foot planting area.
Annuals ageratum floss flower cleome spider flower cosmos dianthus gomphrena globe amaranth gypsophila baby s.
Carefully site your cut flower bed.
They are in the ground.
Plants can be healthier and more productive in a raised bed because you can control the quality of the soil and water drainage.
Weed barrier the rows and mulched with river rock.
I have a small lavender farm about 300 plants.
When making a raised bed instead of going in ground you can place it where the sun or shade is the best for the plants you want to cultivate.
You can also prevent tunneling pests from decimating your plants.
Now keep in mind the purpose of a cut flower bed is to cut the flowers as often as they bloom.
All things cedar 23 in w x 70 in l x 15 75 in h natural cedar cedar raised garden bed.
Item 1447947 model rgt15rgt15.
Without flowers if you plant a bed of.
Cutting garden 1.
Everest blue is a tall ageratum that grows 20 to 26 inches tall.
Each of the 14 sections measures 1 foot deep and 3 feet wide.
Japanese beetles tend to avoid the hairy quilted leaves of ageratum but may rarely munch on the blooms.
When i m done i invariably have an instant no fuss bouquet.
Developed for the cut flower market it makes a terrific addition to planting beds cottage gardens and large containers.
For other good cutting garden candidates check out the related articles below.
Meet some other interesting flowers.
Flower garden go out with a.
I am considering doing them to grow some cut flowers also.
