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Growing flowers, everything you need to know about planting, tending, harvesting and arranging beautiful blooms, Niki Irving

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Growing flowers

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Niki Irving

everything you need to know about planting, tending, harvesting and arranging beautiful blooms

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.--, Source other than the Library of Congress

The story of Flourish Flower Farm -- How I became a flower farmer -- Flourishing -- Know your climate -- About hardiness zones -- Freezing temperatures -- Growing climates -- Choosing and preparing a garden plot -- Growing organically -- Laying out a garden plot -- Soil preparation -- All about soil -- Adding compost -- 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 -- Seed starting and planting -- Creating an indoor grow station -- Growing and caring for seedlings -- Transplanting into the garden -- Planting bulbs -- Tending the garden -- Weeding -- Irrigation -- Fertilizing -- Plant support -- Pinching -- Common diseases affecting flowers -- Beneficial insects -- Common garden pests -- Harvesting and arranging flowers -- Harvesting -- Deadheading -- Arranging -- Putting the garden to bed --Garden bed cleanup -- Composting -- Cover crops -- Deep dive: digging dahlia tubers -- Other fall garden chores