In today’s 2 minute garden tip, I share the best way to plant flowers in a garden, and way to never plant flowers that can harm your plants! Planting flowers in your garden can bring in beneficial insects and pollinators, but it can also cause problems. Some flowers attract harmful insect pests and stunt the growth of your plants. Don’t make this flower planting mistake and avoid a garden nightmare!
For a more detailed video on interplanting flowers in gardens and controlling insects naturally, click here: https://youtu.be/hjoQUpdMads
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22 Comments
Great things to consider! 👍
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Thank you very great information.
I'm in coastal n carolina..I m overwhelmed with leaffotted bugs and Japanese beetles..that's amazing you don't have them.
This is another great nugget if information ! It will benefit my garden in the future
Great information..Thanks 😊
Oh WOW AWESOME INFORMATION ANTHONY. Thank you so much for teaching ❤ LOVE YALL ❤
Sorry but this is probably the first view you've taken that is very inaccurate. Nature has never created the "spread out plants on display" arrangement. It's always chaotic, crowded, diverse.
A healthy soil microbiome with lots of root exudates(sugars), for the bacteria to feed on, unlocks the nutrients for the plant. Bare or empty soil is dead soil, requiring artificial/added fertilizers. Every square inch of LIVING soil has ample NPK to grow most any appropriate plant. Just like your gut bacteria, your soil bacteria need variety!
Squirrels LOVE sunflowers in my area and create hell
NO SUNFLOWERS ARE SOIL MINERS, IT WILL NOT SUCK OUT THE NUTRIENTS OF YOUR SOIL, IT WILL ACTUALLY PUT NUTRIENTS INTO THE SOIL, BECAUSE IT HAS LONG , LONG TAP ROOTS, AND BRING UP MINERALS TO THE TOP. IT WILL SUCK OUT THE SALT IN YOUR SOIL. IF YOU HAVE TOO MUCH SALT IN YOUR SOIL AND YOUR WATER AS WE DO HERE IN VEGAS, A FEW SUNFLOWERS WILL HELP AND IT WILL HELP GIVE NEED SHADE! LATELY, I FIND YOU MISSING THE POINT ON SOME ISSUES! SUNFLOWERS ARE ONE OF THE MOST HELPFUL PLANTS TO PLANT IN THE GARDEN!
Great tip! Thank you! 😊👍
Great advice, after I put some sunflower seeds in the cucumbers…lol Oh, well I can move them if they sprout. The cucumbers may be dead by then. They are huge already.
What flowers are good to inter-plant? Coneflower?
Thanks!
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Good advice. How do you research candidate flowers to determine their nutrient needs and potential drawbacks?
I like to add pots of flowers to my veggie bed rather than plant them directly in my raised beds. This way, I can move them around for pops of colour when they're in bloom and I can feed them independently from my veggies. Calendula and nasturtiums are good because you can eat them!
If you want a beneficial plant that attracts an amazing amount of bees and pollinators, plant Borage. It is an outstanding companion plant for a vegetable garden.
I wish I would have seen this before I planted companion flowers in my garden.
My sunflowers are not even in bloom (zone 3 in Canada) and I am having a crazy time with stink bugs. (I have never had them before.)
Absolutely right. I did that 2 years ago & regretted it since. They gobbled up all the nutrients & moisture. It took a while, getting my soil back to normal 😢 bad mistake!
Perfect timing. I have been growing sunflowers in seed pots and planned to transplant them once they are a few inches tall. Now I know where to plant them. 👍
I get your point. Got lot of bad thrips (the bug) in my forrest garden.
I will have this in mind.
Due to my dahlia collection of 150 kinds, iris germanica and gladiolus. They just love the pale flowers.
So, no veggies nearby them..
Ehhh… I got sweetcorn and herbs next to the yellow/orange /red dahlia bed.
Better order some "preditorbugs" (we call them good-use-nymphs" in Sweden) right now!