Growing flowers Everything you need to know about planting, tending, harvesting and arranging beautiful blooms

Niki Irving

Book - 2021

This book will feature fun, simple and engaging gardening know-how on growing, harvesting and arranging seasonal flowers and vegetables. It will include chapters on getting started, tools of the trade, getting down and dirty with dirt, growing flowers, harvesting flowers, arranging flowers, seasonal rotation, starting from seeds and/or seedlings and keeping it organic.

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Subjects
Genres
Instructional and educational works
Published
Coral Gables, FL : Yellow Pear Press, an imprint of Mango Publishing [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Niki Irving (author)
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
145 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm
ISBN
9781642505504
  • Foreword Growing Flowers...for All Seasons
  • Introduction The Story of Flourish Flower Farm
  • How I Became a Flower Farmer
  • Flourishing
  • Chapter 1. Know Your Climate
  • About Hardiness Zones
  • Freezing Temperatures
  • Growing Climates
  • Chapter 2. Choosing and Preparing a Garden Plot
  • Growing Organically
  • Laying Out a Garden Plot
  • Soil Preparation
  • All About Soil
  • Adding Compost
  • Chapter 3. Planning What to Plant
  • Measuring Your Garden Plot
  • Crop Planning
  • Days to Maturity
  • Plant Hardiness
  • Repeat Bloomers and One-Stem Bloomers
  • Succession Planting
  • Planting for a Balanced Garden Bouquet
  • Ordering Seeds and Bulbs
  • Chapter 4. Seed Starting and Planting
  • Creating an Indoor Grow Station
  • Growing and Caring for Seedlings
  • Transplanting into the Garden
  • Planting Bulbs
  • Chapter 5. Tending the Garden
  • Weeding
  • Irrigation
  • Fertilizing
  • Plant Support
  • Pinching
  • Common Diseases Affecting Flowers
  • Beneficial Insects
  • Common Garden Pests
  • Chapter 6. Harvesting and Arranging Flowers
  • Harvesting
  • Deadheading
  • Arranging
  • Chapter 7. Putting the Garden to Bed
  • Garden Bed Cleanup
  • Composting
  • Cover Crops
  • Deep Dive: Digging Dahlia Tubers
  • Other Fall Garden Chores
  • Keep Growing Flowers
  • Tools
  • Resources
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Author
  • Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Irving, founder of Flourish Farm, debuts with a winning guide to creating a flower garden. "My hope is that this book will save you a few errors of your own," she writes, and welcomes newbies by translating gardening jargon (defining such terms as "hardiness zone" and, among other things, outlining the difference between annuals and perennials) and explaining how to choose an ideal garden spot based on "the path of the sun." Her advice follows a garden's life cycle, from planning, planting, and tending to harvesting, and each chapter begins with a short list of requisite tools. A chapter on "Planning What to Plant," for example, lists measuring tape, flags, and a notebook, and involves learning what flowers thrive in one's climate and keeping a journal to note dates of extreme weather and the number of days to germination. A section on harvesting features step-by-step flower arranging projects, while "Putting the Garden to Bed" is a "bittersweet" endeavor at the beginning of fall that involves removing support nets and stakes, as well as pulling up plants. Irving also covers such gardening basics as weeding ("elbow grease" is recommended over chemicals), irrigating, fertilizing, and composting. Anyone wanting to get started with a flower garden will find plenty of expert guidance here. (May)

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