Every year as a little girl, my mom would take me and my sisters to pick out summer flowers to plant. My favorite ones were petunias and still are to this day. My mom taught us girls at a very young age about planting flowers. It was always something I enjoyed and have continued as an adult.

Here recently, I learned a tip from my mom that amazed me. She has some large flower pots in her backyard and they are overflowing with petunias, see below.

I found out that at the end of the summer she will crumble the dead dried up flowers onto the soil. And alas, they came back the next year. I am finding them everywhere around her yard where they indeed have re-flowered.  Now would be the time to go and get some flowers to plant so you can have fresh blooming flowers next year just by following this simple tip.

Items Needed:

Petunias

Large Flower Pot

Potting Soil

Water

Directions:

Empty the potting soil into the flower pot, almost to the top. Place your flowers about 2-3” apart. The flower pots shown below could take up to 3 large petunias or 6-8 small petunias depending on what type you buy.

Once you have the flowers in place, add more potting soil until the roots of the flowers are covered.

Water the flowers. (If the soil sinks in around the flowers after watering the first time, just add more soil.)

You will need to water these flowers almost every day, depending on the weather. You will also need to pull off any dead flowers during the blooming season. At the end of the summer when the plants turn brown and are thoroughly dried out, crumple the plants on top of the soil. Doing this will keep the seeds from the flowers in the soil. All you have to do is wait for next spring for them to re-bloom.

Have Fun and Garden Away!

Amy 🙂