Hi,

I am going to talk some more about flower gardening in the next few posts. In this post I am introducing “Plant Selection”

There are some “rules of thumb” to growing a “green thumb” that apply to almost every pant.  There are some exceptions to these rules, but they mainly pertain to vegetables.

Plant tender plants outside after danger of frost is past.  You can “harden off” plants from a greenhouse or the windowsill by putting them outside during the day and bringing them in at night.

Annuals need to be planted after frost danger.  Perennials can be planted as soon as the ground thaws, or before it freezes.

Plant plants so that the crown of the plant (area where the stem meets the roots) is right at soil level, or a little bit above.  Planting too deep is a definite plant killer.  If anything, plant couple of inches high, as the plant will settle some after it has been planted.

Do not put fertilizer in the planting hole!  Fertilizers are made of salts, which can burn the roots of plants that are not established.  Let the plant grow for a few weeks before you feed it.

Need to relax and get some exercise?

Have you considered flower gardening? Gardening provides you with these benefits:

· Garden indoors and outside in containers or on a plot of ground

· Exercise

· Inexpensive

· No traveling

· Increased self esteem

· Relaxation

Beautiful flowers to make your day more satisfying.

Get started now. It is easy.

I Will give you a FREE Flower Gardening Book that will show you :

1. ?         Garden Design Basics

2. ?         Gardening Tools

3. ?         Soil Preparation

4. ?         Plant Selection

5. ?         Planting Techniques

6. ?         Plant Care

7. ?         Pests and Diseases

8. ?         Planning for the Next year

Just click on this link and you can get your FREE  “Larry’s Easy Flower Gardening Guide.” You’ll be glad you did!

http://www.organicgardensystems.com/htmlpage3.html

Great Gardening!

Larry Gildea, PhD. (Dr. Larry)

Hi,

What do you do in the time you devote to recharging your batteries so to speak. That is time you take to rest, relax and enjoy yourself.

Some people play golf. Some go bicycle riding. Others go to the movies. There certainly are may ways to relax and enjoy life.

All of the above are certainly good ways to take some time away from the daily grind. However, all of these ways do cost a considerable amount of money., and once your finished with one of these particular ways of enjoying your leisure time, it is over and that’s that.

Have you considered flower gardening? Gardening provides you with these benefits:

• Garden indoors and outside in containers or on a plot of ground
• Exercise
• Inexpensive
• No traveling
• Increased self esteem
• Relaxation

Beautiful flowers to make your day more satisfying

In summary gardening is the cheapest, healthiest, keenest pleasure there is.

Get started now. It is easy.

I Will give you a FREE Flower Gardening Book that will show you :

1. Garden Design Basics
2. Gardening Tools
3. Soil Preparation
4. Plant Selection
5. Planting Techniques
6. Plant Care
7. Pests and Diseases
8. Planning for the Next year

Go to the URL listed below and you can get your FREE “Larry’s Easy Flower Gardening Guide.” You’ll be glad you did!

http://www.organicgardensystems.com/htmlpage3.html

Great Gardening!

Larry Gildea, PhD. (Dr. Larry)

www.organicgardensystems.com

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Hi,

Here is the final post on the planting plan

Do not leave the planning of your garden until you are ready to put the
seeds in the ground, and then do it all in a rush. Do it in January, as
soon as you have received the new year’s catalogues and when you have
time to study over them, and look up your record of the previous year.
Every hour spent on the plan will mean several hours saved in the
garden.

The Planting Table is the next important system in the business of
gardening, especially for the beginner. In it one can see at a glance
all the details of the particular treatment each vegetable requires–
when to sow, how deep, how far apart the rows should be, etc.
Think of how many trips from garden to house to hunt through catalogues
for just such information you could make, and how much time you would
waste ,just at the very busiest season of the whole year, this type of table
will be of ultimate use!

This blog is published to bring gardening information to you. I will talk more about available information shortly.

See you soon.

Great Gardening!

Larry

www.organicgardensystems.com

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Hi,

Here is another post on planting plans.

To make the Planting Plan take a sheet of white paper and a ruler and
mark off a space the shape of your garden–which should be rectangular
if possible–using a scale of one-quarter or one-eighth inch to the
foot. Rows fifty feet long will be found a convenient length for the
average home garden. In a garden where many varieties of things are
grown it will be best to run the rows the short way . We will take a
fifty-foot row for the purpose of illustration, though of course it can
readily be changed in proportion where rows of that length are not convenient.

In a very small garden it will be better to make the row,
say, twenty-five feet long, the aim being always to keep the row a
unit and have as few broken ones as possible, and still not to have to
plant more of any one thing than you will need.

In assigning space for the various vegetables, several things should be
kept in mind in order to facilitate planting, replanting and
cultivating the garden. Here is an example. Crops that remain several years–rhubarb and asparagus–are kept at one end. Next come those that will remain a whole season–parsnips, carrots, onions and the like. And finally those that will be used for a succession of crops–peas, lettuce, spinach. Moreover, tall-growing crops, like pole beans, are kept to the north of lower ones. In the plan illustrated, the space given to each variety is allotted according to the proportion in which they are ordinarily used. If it happens that you have a special weakness for peas, or your family an aversion to peppers, keep these tastes and similar ones in mind when laying out your planting plan.

Talk to you in the next post.

Great Gardening!

Larry
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Hello,

I apologize for the post. I am having a problem with my word processor.

I will fix this.

Thank you for you patience.

Larry

Hi,

Here is the second post on a vegetable gardening planting plan

In the new way of gardening there are four things that will be of great

assistance to the experienced gardener, and that are indispensable to the

success of the beginner. They are the Planting Plan, the Planting Table,

the Check List and the Garden Record.

Do not become discouraged at the formidable sound of that paragraph and

decide that after all you do not want to fuss so much over your garden;

that you are doing it for the fun of the thing anyway, and such

intricate systems will not be worth bothering with. The purpose of

those four garden plans, is simply to make your work less and your

returns more.. Without using them to some extent, or in some modified form, you can never

know just what you are doing with your garden or what improvements to make next year.

Please send me your comments.

Great Gardening!

Larry

www.organicgardeningsystems.com

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I decided I would talk a bit about vegetable planting while I work with the best way to present the Flower of the Day series of posts.

Today I will discuss a portion of the planting plan for vegetables. For the next few posts I will give you a planting plan.

Having selected the garden spot, the next consideration, naturally, is what shall be planted in it.

The old way was to get a few seed catalogues, pick out a list of the

vegetables most enthusiastically described and then, when the time came,

to put them in at one or two plantings, and sowing each kind as far as the

seed would go. There is a better way–a way to make the garden produce more, to yield things when you

want them, and in the proper proportions.

All these advantages, you may suppose, must mean more work. On the

contrary, however, the new way makes very much less work and makes

results a hundred per cent certain.

More on this in the next post.

I would like to have you comments.

Thanks.

Great Gardening!

Larry

www.organicgardensystems.com

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Hi,

I am updating my version of WordPress and expect to be back to publishing new posts shortly.

I will keep you apprised.

Thanks for you patience.

Larry

Great Gardening!

www.organicgardensystems.com

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Hi,

I have been having trouble getting my software to accept pictures.

I will get this problem solved and rerun my “Flowers of the Day” which do not have pictures before I continue the series.

Please bear with me .

Great Gardening!

Thanks,

Larry

www.organicgardensytems.com

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Hi,  

Here is today’s flower:

Alyssum    Sweet Alyssum

Summer Bedding plant            Hardy Annual

The Alyssum is covered with tiny honey-scented flowers, and they can
be used in many ways in the garden. In rock gardens, edging, hanging
baskets, etc.  Avoid over- rich soil which results in lush foliage but
few flowers, trim off dead blooms with scissors to encourage
continuous flowering, prolonged hot and dry weather can be a
problem, plants tend to turn brown and stop flowering.

Site&Soil:      Soil should be well-drained and not too fertile.

Plant Details:  Height 3-6in. Spacing 9in.

Propagation:    Sow seed in February, plant out in mid May.

Please send me comments about the flower of the day program. What do you think about it ?

Great Gardening !

Larry

www.organicgardensystems.com

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