how to sow a little flower magic in your garden this summer…
Step 1: woop with delight when introduced to Miracle Gro flower magic
Step 2: decide where you’d like 16 varieties of pink and white flowers to grow to give 4 months of blooming loveliness in your garden
Step 3: don your wellies and get digging (or skip this step if you have a handy Grandad available to do the hard graft for you – and in his own garden no less so the ongoing success of Step 7 is ensured)
Step 4: remove any weeds by hand and gently rake over (we experimented with sowing our seed in both lightly raked and loosely turned over soil)
Step 5: find a trusty assistant to help with the sprinkling
Step 6: water the entire area gently taking care not to puddle the soil (or sow on a wet day and let nature do it’s thing!). Ensure the seed doesn’t dry out especially in the crucial first two weeks when the seed is germinating (when the coir turns light brown you know it’s time to water)
Step 7: entrust to the care of custodian gardeners aka Nana and Granddad
Step 8: wait with anticipation … or play in the rain!
The first shoots have already appeared after just a week of sunshine. We can expect the first flowers within 6 weeks from a variety of these early blooming flowers: Stock, Allysum, Morning Glory, Toadflax, Corncockle and Dianthus. The late bloomers that may continue to flower into October include Silene, Love in a Mist, Viscaria, Godetia, Candytuft and Cosmos.
A few months later … easy peasy Flower Magic results
Disclosure: I was sent a free sample of Miracle Gro Flower Magic.
I was not required to write a positive review and all opinions are my own.
I’ll be interested to see how these get on.
Had a (shaking head in disbelief) conversation with our builder recently who had used the lawn version of this. Nothing has grown. At all. When I asked him about preparing the ground, watering, etc., he was surprised …
In our instant gratification, everything is easy society he really thought that all he had to do was empty the carton contents on the ground.
Hello to Nic and info for Bilbo,
As Parents and grannies to Nic and Euan we are watering this plot and wathching over. However, how well this/these develops is to be judged by Nic over the next weeks.
Hi ED, I knew you’d be looking after things :}
You should have a fantastic display of colour in the garden very soon, whatever about Miracle Gro, Grandparents are definitely magic!
You’re so right Peggy and if someone could bottle Grandparent gardening power I’d bag a whole shelf of it!
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