Winter Flowers: Down and dirty how-to

So you're behind the power curve getting your winter seasonal flowers planted. You're not alone. Here is a down and dirty how-to punch list:

Get these:

1. Flats of winter flowers. Check for nice root balls at the nursery
2. Bags of mulch chips. Color and style purely a matter of taste
3. Plenty of compost. Buy the cheap 'humus' 40 lbs. bags, or make your own
4. Generic 10-10-10 fertilizer
   

Do this:

• (Existing beds) Take out any previous flowers
• (New beds) Spade the existing soil (dig shovel the full blade depth into the soil, and turn over the entire contents.)
• Spread a thick layer of compost on top
• Spade the compost into the previously spaded soil.
• You can either chop up the soil with the side of the shovel blade, or
• ... till with a small garden tiller.
• Work soil until you can plant flower pots by hand
• Sprinkle a few handfuls of the 10-10-10 fertilizer on top
• Set out your garden flowers
• Using your fingers or a garden trowel, plant the flowers
• Be sure to remove from pots (you'd be surprised)
• Cover the root balls, and gently compress around root ball into soil
• Spread a layer of chip mulch (color and type purely a matter of taste)
• Water in well.

Check here for steps to Grow and Establish your flowers

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