Archive for May, 2011
Tips on Planting and Planning
As the garden sets into its winter slumber many gardeners retire to the fireside preferring the warmth of the home to the cool of the garden. The gardening day is shortening and the weather is less and less conducive to gardening in earnest without an added layer of warmth protection and some thick and preferably waterproof gloves, only an hour or two can be endured at a time.
For those with the benefit of a greenhouse or even a garden potting shed, the extra protection afforded to the plants can also boost the time even a hardy gardener may spend outdoors. And while time spent in the glasshouse may not be regarded by some as outdoors, it still counts if you are gardening.
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Outdoor Grown Vs Greenhouse Grown Flowers
Growing flowers is not as easy as it looks. There are several factors to consider in order to grow high-quality blooms and the growers’ work is to make sure that the factors remain as stable as possible. These factors are temperature, humidity, soil type, fertilizer supply, pest control, preventing blight, and the seasons (in tropical areas such as the Philippines, there are only two seasons—wet and dry—while other countries have spring, summer, autumn, and winter). Almost all these factors involved in growing the best flowers in the market are unpredictable, making production wholly dependent on natural causes. One can toil a month in a garden, sweating and swearing, but all it takes for this work to be rendered useless is a strong typhoon.
Growing flowers outdoors has many advantages though, and one of them is that it is a cheaper way to cultivate blooms compared to building an expensive greenhouse. The work is much simpler, without all the complicated machinery and maintenance that a greenhouse needs. Also, unlike greenhouse-grown flowers, outdoor flowers do not require that much personnel. All one needs is the basic gardening tools and competent hands to use them to do the job right.
Tags: acts of god, autumn and winter, changes in the weather, competent hands, extreme weather conditions, growing flowers, grown flowers, outdoor flowers, soil type, spring summer autumnRelated posts