When to plant what?

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  1. PinkFinger

    PinkFinger Gardener

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    Hi
    is there a simple list somewhere or perhaps even a website that tell you what to plant each month?
    I'd like to start planting seeds to grow my own flowers throughout the year?

    Thanks again :)
     
  2. Kristen

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    Vegetables tend to be planted at specific times (and sometimes successionally for a period of time so that the "harvest" is spread).

    But I tend to think that Flowers are done in a single batch.

    Some Half-hardy things are done late-ish, so they don't catch a frost, and some Hardy annuals are done the Autumn before so they are bigger the following Summer (but they can be sown in the Spring instead).

    There are biennials which are sown in the Spring of year one to flower in Year 2 (and you may need to transplant the Spring flowering ones into their final positions in the Autumn - e.g. Wallflowers)

    And leaving aside the awkward blighters that need a period of Cold to break their dormancy and so on ... mostly you can sow in the early Spring and plant out and That's That :)
     
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