Building Nursery Beds
Garden beds are an ideal temporary home for newly-purchased plants.
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If you start plants by seed, put your first-year seedlings in a "nursery bed" rather than directly into your flower garden.
To raise hollyhocks as biennials, sow seeds outdoors in a cold frame, nursery bed or other convenient place in late summer or early fall but at least two months before frost. The seeds will sprout quickly and form several large leaves before winter.
Because they won't flower the first year, seeds are often started in a nursery bed or in pots and then transplanted to perennial beds the second year.
Use your seedling or nursery bed, or deep pots on the porch. Weed often, water only when truly needed, ...
If you have the space, perennial seedlings can be kept in a separate nursery bed, where you can keep an eye on them and pamper as necessary. At the start of their second year, you can move them to a permanent spot in the garden...
Store these separately, planting them later in a nursery bed until they reach flowering size which will be in two or three years time.
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Start seeds for cool-weather crops indoors or in a nursery bed outside about three months prior to the expected first frost.
Water when rainfall is sparse. Most plants need about 1 inch of water per week.
Mature plants will self-seed readily, but just in case, you may want to keep some newly started plants in another nursery bed or pots for transplanting later, usually in spring.
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prepared nursery bed, or else a special bed created in a cold frame. While frame
protection is not necessary for cold weather, except with a few sub-tropical species, it ...
Plant the seeds in good soil and seed them in a nursery bed with the rows close together. Transplant them to their growing location as earlier crops mature and are removed. This will save garden space and require less seed.
If that's not an option, try establishing a small nursery bed just for starting transplants, which can be as small as a square foot or two.
dig them in June or July, or you can wash off excess soil, dry them, and store them in shallow boxes in a cool, dry, airy place until fall planting time. Replant only the largest bulbs in your flower beds. Plant the smaller bulbs in a nursery bed for ...
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