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If I asked you how to grow flowers, you might start by telling me about soil and water and sunlight. And you would be right. But one of the more overlooked aspects in the quest for the right answer to the question of how to grow flowers is growing them from scratch.
It makes for a wonderful winter pastime for a gardoholic, starting from scratch. It's actually quite easy to grow many plants and flowers from seeds too. I tend to be a perennial gardener and the plants just keep on coming year after year after year. But annuals are rich in color and texture and shape. No garden is really complete without them.
Many popular flowers and plants grow easily from seeds, and once you have at least one growing you can collect the seeds each year and start new plants from them as often as you'd like. For this year though, you will likely have to buy seeds from a store because you are starting from the very basics.
So what do you do with these seeds? Well here are some early steps in the how to grow flowers exercise.
The plastic bag method: If you have very small seeds, you can start growing them with a plastic sandwich bag and a paper towel. Moisten the paper towel and sprinkle the seeds on it. Fold it up and put it in the plastic bag. Seal the bag and place it in an area with indirect sunlight. It is a good idea to mark the bag with a date so you'll be able to tell when the seeds may start sprouting.
The seed pot method: Get small peat pots or nursery flats (or use cardboard egg cartons) and some good quality potting mix or vermiculite. Fill the pots with soil and plant the seeds in rows. Use the eraser end of a pencil to push the seeds into the soil about one quarter of an inch. Keep the pots moist until sprouts appear. When they are large enough, transplant them into regular pots or outside if the weather is ready.
If you ask around among your gardening friends, they might offer you some inside information on how to grow flowers. The woman next door starts hers in plain old flower pots. It seems to work for her. Other people soak the flower seeds in water a couple of weeks before planting time and plants the sprouts. The annuals bloom a little late but it fits into her overall scheme of blooms.
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