In addition to vegetables and herbs, the garden grows flowers in profusion. Gardeners love tending, harvesting, and taking home the beautiful blooms.
The flower crop is worthy for its own sake. Flowers also make wonderful companion plantings with food crops. Marigolds and calendula are growing in several vegetable beds.
This is the “after” picture from previous garden seasons. This season, we won’t see blooms like this until a good bit later.
So what comes before, to make this glorious beauty possible?
It all begins in a condo. Susan, the Flower Power team’s flower lady, started all these flowers from seed. How beautiful her home is! Flowers bring life even the drear of pre-thaw Vermont spring. A miracle: Her beloved cats left the flowers alone!
As the garden soil thawed and warmed, Flower Power got ready. Here, a gardener transplants maturing seedlings into larger containers for transport to the garden.
Fortunately, these seedlings don’t endure a long or arduous road trip. It’s fortunate for Flower Power team members transporting them too—getting them all here takes several trips.
Let the planting commence!
Baby plants always get watered in, followed by daily watering. Sometimes twice a day if it’s hot and dry out.
Flower seedlings everywhere! Well, almost. Another row of flowers will grace the row to the right of these two. More will grow inside the fence perimeter, up the cattle panel trellis leaning against the wooden beam, and in boxes and rows throughout the garden. Come back for this season’s “after,” which will, as always, be bursting with color and joy.
Okay, okay: Here’s one more glimpse of “after.”
