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    A Beginner's Guide to Annuals and Biennials: Essential guide for A Beautiful Garden
    A Beginner's Guide to Annuals and Biennials: Essential guide for A Beautiful Garden
    A Beginner's Guide to Annuals and Biennials: Essential guide for A Beautiful Garden
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    A Beginner's Guide to Annuals and Biennials: Essential guide for A Beautiful Garden

    By Dueep J. Singh

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    Table of Contents

    A Beginner’s Guide to Annuals and Biennials
    Introduction
    Choosing the Right Soil
    Soil Color and Fertility
    Humus
    Preparation of the Soil
    Best Time for Seed Sowing
    The Thinning Process
    Staking Your Annuals
    Why Mulch?
    Cultivation and Maintenance
    Watering your Plants
    List of Hardy annuals
    Half Hardy Annuals
    Annuals Suitable for Cutting Purposes –
    Annuals for autumn blooming –
    Half Hardy Annuals for Edging Your Border
    Knowing More about Biennials
    Sowing the seeds
    Preparing the Ground
    List of Popular Biennials
    Conclusion
    Author’s Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    There are far too many people out there who are under the impression that you cannot have a beautiful garden without spending huge amounts of money. That is so not true. A little bit of planning and this fallacy is going to fall to pieces by the wayside. Those who are grown annuals for years are going to give this statement the lie gladly.

    Their initial investment must have been just a packet of seeds. The next year, the plants were grown from the seeds collected from the previous years’ crop.
    Do not forget that the life of an annual is limited to just 12 months and so you must not expect them to grow up and bloom again the next year, unless of course you allowed the seeds to lie in the bed without collecting them. That is when they are going to bloom up just like weeds with a little bit of rain, and with the coming of the spring.

    One of the great advantages of annuals is that they are quite easy to grow and flourish in your garden over a long period. The most common are well known to even amateur gardeners who can recognize a cornflower, nasturtiums, Virginia stock and Candytuft. These are very beautiful in themselves, but every gardener is growing them in his garden.

    So be a little adventurous and grow annuals that are lesser-known, whose names you will find in seed catalogs, nursery catalogs and in nurseries online.
    There are two kinds of annuals – the hardy kind and the half hardy kind. The hardy annuals are sewn out of doors, either in the autumn are in the spring. The half-hardy annuals are normally raised in frames or under cloches if you are subject to a continuous frost. Half-hardy annuals may need a little bit more of extra care and coddling , but that extra is going to be worth it when you see the blossoms in your garden.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateJan 28, 2015
    ISBN9781311406170
    A Beginner's Guide to Annuals and Biennials: Essential guide for A Beautiful Garden

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      A Beginner's Guide to Annuals and Biennials - Dueep J. Singh

      A Beginner’s Guide to Annuals and Biennials

      Essential guide for A Beautiful Garden

      Gardening Series

      Dueep J. Singh

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      The information is this book is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be used and medical advice or a substitute for proper medical treatment by a qualified health care provider. The information is believed to be accurate as presented based on research by the author.

      The contents have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other Government or Health Organization and the contents in this book are not to be used to treat cure or prevent disease.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Choosing the Right Soil

      Soil Color and Fertility

      Humus

      Preparation of the Soil

      Best Time for Seed Sowing

      The Thinning Process

      Staking Your Annuals

      Why Mulch?

      Cultivation and Maintenance

      Watering your Plants

      List of Hardy

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