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the key to insane flowering all season long 🌼
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What if I told you that the secret to healthy plants, stronger growth, and spectacular blooming all season long lies in a simple 2-second technique? I don't feel like this is talked about much in backyard gardening circles, but it's so easy to do and gives such great results that I need to put it out there: deadheading. It's a way to keep your annuals flowering continuously or encourage a second big flush of flowers later in the season. Even perennials benefit as it helps channel energy to new growth and reshapes scraggly mounds. But there's a better way to deadhead to ensure all of this happens—and it's not just cutting off the dried-up flower head. ​Here's how I deadhead spent blossoms to get big blooms from all my annuals and perennials.​ Seasonal tipsWant to grow these cool perennial onions in your own garden?Egyptian walking onions are one of my staple crops and a year-round favorite. They're also easy to grow, resistant to pests and diseases, and hardy to zone 3! Plant these in your garden for an endless supply of scallions (or dig up their shallot-like bulbs). I have a limited amount of organic walking onion seeds (bulbils) left, harvested from my own beds. Plant them now to get scallions through fall, winter, and year after year. (I ship daily to USA addresses.)
​Read my growing guide here. (They're as low-maintenance as you can get for a food crop.) P.S. Get an abundance of flowers all season long with the right deadheading technique. Here's how.​ P.P.S. If you have a hard time remembering what you've deadheaded when, or which plants benefit most from being deadheaded each year, an easy way to track all of this is with my Ultimate Garden Diary. |
Garden Betty
For people who want to grow more food with less work. 🌱 This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribers—here's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."