Planting Wildflowers Tips

Buy jasmine seeds wisely. Make sure and choose varieties that are well adapted to your environment. A package of seeds will cover about ten square feet while a quitter of a pound will cover 1000 square feet. A little bit goes along way. Don’t over seed especially with mixes. You may choke out some of the smaller flowers. Native species are a sure thing because you know that they already love the climate, avoid planting any introduced invasive species.

Most wildflowers like full sun and soil that’s got low fertility and low nitrogen. But for shady areas, they are species that love the shade. You are going to need some gardening tools and upside down flower pot. Till or break up the ground just like you would for a vegetable garden, so you are planting in a bare ground. Don’t till any deeper than you have to. Two inches will usually suffice. Weeds can be a real problem in a wildflower planting, so you want to irrigate the newly tilled area to get the weeds germinate.

Wait a couple of days and then get rid of any weeds that sprout and restart the process at one more time. To get proper coverage, always divide your seeds in two no matter how much you are sowing. Mix half of the seed with an inert material like vermiculite or sand, but not sea sand. Use a one to ten ratio, one part seed and ten parts inert. Use a rotary spreader or spreading by hand. Make sure you get full coverage. The great thing about the sand and vermiculite is that you can see where you’ve broadcast. Now mix up the second batch of seed and do it over again. Next, stamp down the seed with either your feet or a lawn roller or a piece of plywood.

If you are going to plant your seeds in the spring, be sure and put them in the freezer for a couple of days before planting, which will help germination. So give yourself a gift this spring and plant flowers this fall.