When Valentine's Day, or any vacation rolls around, you may notice that the value of flowers jumps a bit. Although the price may make you blink it probably doesn't halt you all that much when it comes to paying. After all, you're giving them to a very special friend or to a special event and the extra costs are well worth the smiles and joy that may likely result. But, when you think about it, fresh flowers are a year round adventure that can bring joy to everybody on every day of the year. Use a garden box or a backyard plot of land. It's not too arduous if you go about it right and is sort of fun and restful as you go about it.

Where you should farm your fresh flowers

For the most part, you are restricted by the environmental place that you intend to grow in. If you have the space, you can grow flowers in a greenhouse, or a hothouse but you can also grow flowers on your bedroom window sill. Really, fresh flowers can be grown year round just about everywhere but outside in your personal yard space is best and most enjoyable. What you do need is a good patch of earth that has not been used as a construction waste zone where dirt conditions might be extremely poor. Start by taking a sample of your soil to the yard centre or educational outreach centre for evaluation and add amendments as necessary. From a different visual aspect, just go to the garden center and stock up on manure and grow the fresh flowers from this medium.

Which type of flowers you should grow

There are; annual flowers which flower for one time period and then are finished, perennial flowers which bloom season after season and biennial flowers which flower in the 2nd year and are done. All are great fresh flowers but if you're going to do it correctly you may as well go for the perennials that come back season after season. As you chose the fresh flowers you'll be producing consider the climate they prefer and time them through the season. If a flower typically comes out in early spring plan and plant for that blooming time. As the season progresses plant according to that time in parts of your garden that give that flower optimum growing conditions for the time that the flower blooms. For instance; daffodils tend to really come into form in mid-autumn. They bloom from early summer to fall but really hit their stride in mid-spring. Plan for this part of the season, but understand that cutting and giving them occurs through the season. Additionally, cutting them actually makes them bloom more and look better for the peak season.

A $125 hole for a $20 plant

Ideally, you will want to plant once and then tend your flower garden year after year. The positioning part is the difficult part so doing it once is the best way to go about it. Make your hole a bit deeper then the plant root ball and a few inches wider. Put some organic fertiliser in the bottom and a bit up the sides. Make another hole in the organic fertilizer to put the plant. The top of the plant rootball should be just above ground level. Fill in with more organic fertiliser pressing out any air pockets in the manure infill. Make a soil dish around the plant to hold water. Give the plant Nitro0gen feed once a month.

Feed and cut

Once the plant is deep-rooted, after a month or two, it will need feeding and care. When a flowering plant does flower it uses up quite a bit of energy and will need this energy needs to be replaced. For the most part, the main nutrient needed is Nitrogen. Potash and Potassium are also needed so check the back of the seed pack or a plant info tag for required amounts. Cut on a regular basis to promote growth but be certain to not over cut for a full season of flowers.