Geraniums are true marathon bloomers, providing your garden with colourful flowers from Spring well into the Fall. They thrive in garden beds but also in pots on your porch. There’s even varieties that like to hang out in baskets.
Annual geraniums (Pelargonium species) Perennial geraniums (Geranium species)
Annual Geraniums need full sun, except for Ivy Geranium which prefer some shade. Perennial Geraniums however can grow in sun or shade, depending on the variety. All types appreciate a little protection form the hottest midday sun.
For annual Geraniums, check the soil weekly, watering when the top inch is dry. Newly planted Perennial Geraniums need their soil consistently moist (to encourage rooting) for the first growing season. Once established, Perennials generally survive on rainfall alone, unless you experience long periods of drought.
Toxic for pets, causing rashes, low blood pressure, loss of appetite and general lethargy. If you have them indoors, keep away from pets who like graze.
Depending on the variety, Geraniums grow 4 to 48 inches tall and 6 to 36 inches wide.
“Deadhead” your Geraniums to maximize your blooms. When you see a Geranium bloom start to look brown and wilted, snip it or break it off with your hands. Follow your wilting bloom down to where it meets the main stem and break it off. Deadheading ensures your Geranium works hard constantly making new blooms. It’s a game-changer. Inspect and deadhead every two weeks, minimum. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Scented Geraniums have wonderful, zesty smells but it’s not the flowers so much as the fragrant leaves. These varieties are even edible and can add delicious flavours to meats, salads or even desserts. Make sure your variety is an edible kind before you get cooking!
Perennial and Annual Geraniums agree. A nutrient-rich well-draining soil is best. If you’re planting in beds, improve soil drainage and quality by mixing 3 inches of Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Garden Soil into the top 6 to 8 inches of native soil. For best results when growing Geraniums in containers, fill pots with light and fluffy Miracle-Gro® Moisture Control Potting Mix. When planting in raised beds, mix garden soil and potting mix 50/50.
Geraniums are natural pest repellers! They keep cabbageworms, earworms and Japanese beetles at bay. This makes them excellent bodyguards and friends to plants which are prone to these pests. Cabbage, corn, grapes and roses all benefit.
Geraniums are marathon bloomers from Spring to Fall, especially if you deadhead regularly. Blooms come in pink, purple, lilac, red, and white. There’s even bi-coloured varieties. Zonals sport the brightest colours. Regals are less bright but their flowers are larger and come in two–tone varieties.
Geraniums naturally repel many pests, but are prone to some, like Aphids (clusters of greenish-yellow little bugs) and Whiteflies (tiny bugs with white wings). Check under the leaves periodically. If you see these pests treat them with a safe pesticide like Ortho® Bug B Gon® ECO Insecticidal Soap.
Overfeeding of Nitrogen results in lots of lush vegetation but no flowers. Give your plants a thorough soaking to two or three days in a row, to help wash nutrients deep into the soil, past most of the roots. Stop fertilizing for the rest of the growing season.
Probably not enough food. Spray their foliage with liquid fertilizer like Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Food. Don’t exceed the instructions on the container. Feed every two weeks until the yellowing symptoms disappear.
There’s a number of possibilities. It could be low light. A lack of deadheading and pruning could be the cause. Excessive feeding and or watering. Overcrowding forces your Geranium to grow up long and tall to get about the competition.
Your Geranium is too cold. Geraniums do well in cooler temps than many other flowers, particularly the Regal varieties, but even they have their limits. If this is a potted plant, delay moving it outside until nighttime temperatures are regularly above 40 F (4C).
This is most common with potted Geraniums, and it’s usually because the plant is too soggy. Find a drier spot, improve drainage if needed and wait longer between watering.
Geraniums are true marathon bloomers, providing your garden with colourful flowers from Spring well into the Fall. They thrive in garden beds but also in pots on your porch. There’s even varieties that like to hang out in baskets.
Annual geraniums (Pelargonium species) Perennial geraniums (Geranium species)
Annual Geraniums need full sun, except for Ivy Geranium which prefer some shade. Perennial Geraniums however can grow in sun or shade, depending on the variety. All types appreciate a little protection form the hottest midday sun.
For annual Geraniums, check the soil weekly, watering when the top inch is dry. Newly planted Perennial Geraniums need their soil consistently moist (to encourage rooting) for the first growing season. Once established, Perennials generally survive on rainfall alone, unless you experience long periods of drought.
Toxic for pets, causing rashes, low blood pressure, loss of appetite and general lethargy. If you have them indoors, keep away from pets who like graze.
Depending on the variety, Geraniums grow 4 to 48 inches tall and 6 to 36 inches wide.
“Deadhead” your Geraniums to maximize your blooms. When you see a Geranium bloom start to look brown and wilted, snip it or break it off with your hands. Follow your wilting bloom down to where it meets the main stem and break it off. Deadheading ensures your Geranium works hard constantly making new blooms. It’s a game-changer. Inspect and deadhead every two weeks, minimum. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Scented Geraniums have wonderful, zesty smells but it’s not the flowers so much as the fragrant leaves. These varieties are even edible and can add delicious flavours to meats, salads or even desserts. Make sure your variety is an edible kind before you get cooking!
Perennial and Annual Geraniums agree. A nutrient-rich well-draining soil is best. If you’re planting in beds, improve soil drainage and quality by mixing 3 inches of Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Garden Soil into the top 6 to 8 inches of native soil. For best results when growing Geraniums in containers, fill pots with light and fluffy Miracle-Gro® Moisture Control Potting Mix. When planting in raised beds, mix garden soil and potting mix 50/50.
Geraniums are natural pest repellers! They keep cabbageworms, earworms and Japanese beetles at bay. This makes them excellent bodyguards and friends to plants which are prone to these pests. Cabbage, corn, grapes and roses all benefit.
Geraniums are marathon bloomers from Spring to Fall, especially if you deadhead regularly. Blooms come in pink, purple, lilac, red, and white. There’s even bi-coloured varieties. Zonals sport the brightest colours. Regals are less bright but their flowers are larger and come in two–tone varieties.
Geraniums naturally repel many pests, but are prone to some, like Aphids (clusters of greenish-yellow little bugs) and Whiteflies (tiny bugs with white wings). Check under the leaves periodically. If you see these pests treat them with a safe pesticide like Ortho® Bug B Gon® ECO Insecticidal Soap.
Overfeeding of Nitrogen results in lots of lush vegetation but no flowers. Give your plants a thorough soaking to two or three days in a row, to help wash nutrients deep into the soil, past most of the roots. Stop fertilizing for the rest of the growing season.
Probably not enough food. Spray their foliage with liquid fertilizer like Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Food. Don’t exceed the instructions on the container. Feed every two weeks until the yellowing symptoms disappear.
There’s a number of possibilities. It could be low light. A lack of deadheading and pruning could be the cause. Excessive feeding and or watering. Overcrowding forces your Geranium to grow up long and tall to get about the competition.
Your Geranium is too cold. Geraniums do well in cooler temps than many other flowers, particularly the Regal varieties, but even they have their limits. If this is a potted plant, delay moving it outside until nighttime temperatures are regularly above 40 F (4C).
This is most common with potted Geraniums, and it’s usually because the plant is too soggy. Find a drier spot, improve drainage if needed and wait longer between watering.
Geraniums are true marathon bloomers, providing your garden with colourful flowers from Spring well into the Fall. They thrive in garden beds but also in pots on your porch. There’s even varieties that like to hang out in baskets.
Annual geraniums (Pelargonium species) Perennial geraniums (Geranium species)
Annual Geraniums need full sun, except for Ivy Geranium which prefer some shade. Perennial Geraniums however can grow in sun or shade, depending on the variety. All types appreciate a little protection form the hottest midday sun.
For annual Geraniums, check the soil weekly, watering when the top inch is dry. Newly planted Perennial Geraniums need their soil consistently moist (to encourage rooting) for the first growing season. Once established, Perennials generally survive on rainfall alone, unless you experience long periods of drought.
Toxic for pets, causing rashes, low blood pressure, loss of appetite and general lethargy. If you have them indoors, keep away from pets who like graze.
Depending on the variety, Geraniums grow 4 to 48 inches tall and 6 to 36 inches wide.
“Deadhead” your Geraniums to maximize your blooms. When you see a Geranium bloom start to look brown and wilted, snip it or break it off with your hands. Follow your wilting bloom down to where it meets the main stem and break it off. Deadheading ensures your Geranium works hard constantly making new blooms. It’s a game-changer. Inspect and deadhead every two weeks, minimum. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Scented Geraniums have wonderful, zesty smells but it’s not the flowers so much as the fragrant leaves. These varieties are even edible and can add delicious flavours to meats, salads or even desserts. Make sure your variety is an edible kind before you get cooking!
Perennial and Annual Geraniums agree. A nutrient-rich well-draining soil is best. If you’re planting in beds, improve soil drainage and quality by mixing 3 inches of Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Garden Soil into the top 6 to 8 inches of native soil. For best results when growing Geraniums in containers, fill pots with light and fluffy Miracle-Gro® Moisture Control Potting Mix. When planting in raised beds, mix garden soil and potting mix 50/50.
Geraniums are natural pest repellers! They keep cabbageworms, earworms and Japanese beetles at bay. This makes them excellent bodyguards and friends to plants which are prone to these pests. Cabbage, corn, grapes and roses all benefit.
Geraniums are marathon bloomers from Spring to Fall, especially if you deadhead regularly. Blooms come in pink, purple, lilac, red, and white. There’s even bi-coloured varieties. Zonals sport the brightest colours. Regals are less bright but their flowers are larger and come in two–tone varieties.
Geraniums naturally repel many pests, but are prone to some, like Aphids (clusters of greenish-yellow little bugs) and Whiteflies (tiny bugs with white wings). Check under the leaves periodically. If you see these pests treat them with a safe pesticide like Ortho® Bug B Gon® ECO Insecticidal Soap.
Overfeeding of Nitrogen results in lots of lush vegetation but no flowers. Give your plants a thorough soaking to two or three days in a row, to help wash nutrients deep into the soil, past most of the roots. Stop fertilizing for the rest of the growing season.
Probably not enough food. Spray their foliage with liquid fertilizer like Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Food. Don’t exceed the instructions on the container. Feed every two weeks until the yellowing symptoms disappear.
There’s a number of possibilities. It could be low light. A lack of deadheading and pruning could be the cause. Excessive feeding and or watering. Overcrowding forces your Geranium to grow up long and tall to get about the competition.
Your Geranium is too cold. Geraniums do well in cooler temps than many other flowers, particularly the Regal varieties, but even they have their limits. If this is a potted plant, delay moving it outside until nighttime temperatures are regularly above 40 F (4C).
This is most common with potted Geraniums, and it’s usually because the plant is too soggy. Find a drier spot, improve drainage if needed and wait longer between watering.
Geraniums are true marathon bloomers, providing your garden with colourful flowers from Spring well into the Fall. They thrive in garden beds but also in pots on your porch. There’s even varieties that like to hang out in baskets.
Annual geraniums (Pelargonium species) Perennial geraniums (Geranium species)
Annual Geraniums need full sun, except for Ivy Geranium which prefer some shade. Perennial Geraniums however can grow in sun or shade, depending on the variety. All types appreciate a little protection form the hottest midday sun.
For annual Geraniums, check the soil weekly, watering when the top inch is dry. Newly planted Perennial Geraniums need their soil consistently moist (to encourage rooting) for the first growing season. Once established, Perennials generally survive on rainfall alone, unless you experience long periods of drought.
Toxic for pets, causing rashes, low blood pressure, loss of appetite and general lethargy. If you have them indoors, keep away from pets who like graze.
Depending on the variety, Geraniums grow 4 to 48 inches tall and 6 to 36 inches wide.
“Deadhead” your Geraniums to maximize your blooms. When you see a Geranium bloom start to look brown and wilted, snip it or break it off with your hands. Follow your wilting bloom down to where it meets the main stem and break it off. Deadheading ensures your Geranium works hard constantly making new blooms. It’s a game-changer. Inspect and deadhead every two weeks, minimum. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Scented Geraniums have wonderful, zesty smells but it’s not the flowers so much as the fragrant leaves. These varieties are even edible and can add delicious flavours to meats, salads or even desserts. Make sure your variety is an edible kind before you get cooking!
Perennial and Annual Geraniums agree. A nutrient-rich well-draining soil is best. If you’re planting in beds, improve soil drainage and quality by mixing 3 inches of Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Garden Soil into the top 6 to 8 inches of native soil. For best results when growing Geraniums in containers, fill pots with light and fluffy Miracle-Gro® Moisture Control Potting Mix. When planting in raised beds, mix garden soil and potting mix 50/50.
Geraniums are natural pest repellers! They keep cabbageworms, earworms and Japanese beetles at bay. This makes them excellent bodyguards and friends to plants which are prone to these pests. Cabbage, corn, grapes and roses all benefit.
Geraniums are marathon bloomers from Spring to Fall, especially if you deadhead regularly. Blooms come in pink, purple, lilac, red, and white. There’s even bi-coloured varieties. Zonals sport the brightest colours. Regals are less bright but their flowers are larger and come in two–tone varieties.
Geraniums naturally repel many pests, but are prone to some, like Aphids (clusters of greenish-yellow little bugs) and Whiteflies (tiny bugs with white wings). Check under the leaves periodically. If you see these pests treat them with a safe pesticide like Ortho® Bug B Gon® ECO Insecticidal Soap.
Overfeeding of Nitrogen results in lots of lush vegetation but no flowers. Give your plants a thorough soaking to two or three days in a row, to help wash nutrients deep into the soil, past most of the roots. Stop fertilizing for the rest of the growing season.
Probably not enough food. Spray their foliage with liquid fertilizer like Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Food. Don’t exceed the instructions on the container. Feed every two weeks until the yellowing symptoms disappear.
There’s a number of possibilities. It could be low light. A lack of deadheading and pruning could be the cause. Excessive feeding and or watering. Overcrowding forces your Geranium to grow up long and tall to get about the competition.
Your Geranium is too cold. Geraniums do well in cooler temps than many other flowers, particularly the Regal varieties, but even they have their limits. If this is a potted plant, delay moving it outside until nighttime temperatures are regularly above 40 F (4C).
This is most common with potted Geraniums, and it’s usually because the plant is too soggy. Find a drier spot, improve drainage if needed and wait longer between watering.
Geraniums are true marathon bloomers, providing your garden with colourful flowers from Spring well into the Fall. They thrive in garden beds but also in pots on your porch. There’s even varieties that like to hang out in baskets.
Annual geraniums (Pelargonium species) Perennial geraniums (Geranium species)
Annual Geraniums need full sun, except for Ivy Geranium which prefer some shade. Perennial Geraniums however can grow in sun or shade, depending on the variety. All types appreciate a little protection form the hottest midday sun.
For annual Geraniums, check the soil weekly, watering when the top inch is dry. Newly planted Perennial Geraniums need their soil consistently moist (to encourage rooting) for the first growing season. Once established, Perennials generally survive on rainfall alone, unless you experience long periods of drought.
Toxic for pets, causing rashes, low blood pressure, loss of appetite and general lethargy. If you have them indoors, keep away from pets who like graze.
Depending on the variety, Geraniums grow 4 to 48 inches tall and 6 to 36 inches wide.
“Deadhead” your Geraniums to maximize your blooms. When you see a Geranium bloom start to look brown and wilted, snip it or break it off with your hands. Follow your wilting bloom down to where it meets the main stem and break it off. Deadheading ensures your Geranium works hard constantly making new blooms. It’s a game-changer. Inspect and deadhead every two weeks, minimum. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Scented Geraniums have wonderful, zesty smells but it’s not the flowers so much as the fragrant leaves. These varieties are even edible and can add delicious flavours to meats, salads or even desserts. Make sure your variety is an edible kind before you get cooking!
Perennial and Annual Geraniums agree. A nutrient-rich well-draining soil is best. If you’re planting in beds, improve soil drainage and quality by mixing 3 inches of Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Garden Soil into the top 6 to 8 inches of native soil. For best results when growing Geraniums in containers, fill pots with light and fluffy Miracle-Gro® Moisture Control Potting Mix. When planting in raised beds, mix garden soil and potting mix 50/50.
Geraniums are natural pest repellers! They keep cabbageworms, earworms and Japanese beetles at bay. This makes them excellent bodyguards and friends to plants which are prone to these pests. Cabbage, corn, grapes and roses all benefit.
Geraniums are marathon bloomers from Spring to Fall, especially if you deadhead regularly. Blooms come in pink, purple, lilac, red, and white. There’s even bi-coloured varieties. Zonals sport the brightest colours. Regals are less bright but their flowers are larger and come in two–tone varieties.
Geraniums naturally repel many pests, but are prone to some, like Aphids (clusters of greenish-yellow little bugs) and Whiteflies (tiny bugs with white wings). Check under the leaves periodically. If you see these pests treat them with a safe pesticide like Ortho® Bug B Gon® ECO Insecticidal Soap.
Overfeeding of Nitrogen results in lots of lush vegetation but no flowers. Give your plants a thorough soaking to two or three days in a row, to help wash nutrients deep into the soil, past most of the roots. Stop fertilizing for the rest of the growing season.
Probably not enough food. Spray their foliage with liquid fertilizer like Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Food. Don’t exceed the instructions on the container. Feed every two weeks until the yellowing symptoms disappear.
There’s a number of possibilities. It could be low light. A lack of deadheading and pruning could be the cause. Excessive feeding and or watering. Overcrowding forces your Geranium to grow up long and tall to get about the competition.
Your Geranium is too cold. Geraniums do well in cooler temps than many other flowers, particularly the Regal varieties, but even they have their limits. If this is a potted plant, delay moving it outside until nighttime temperatures are regularly above 40 F (4C).
This is most common with potted Geraniums, and it’s usually because the plant is too soggy. Find a drier spot, improve drainage if needed and wait longer between watering.
Geraniums are true marathon bloomers, providing your garden with colourful flowers from Spring well into the Fall. They thrive in garden beds but also in pots on your porch. There’s even varieties that like to hang out in baskets.
Annual geraniums (Pelargonium species) Perennial geraniums (Geranium species)
Annual Geraniums need full sun, except for Ivy Geranium which prefer some shade. Perennial Geraniums however can grow in sun or shade, depending on the variety. All types appreciate a little protection form the hottest midday sun.
For annual Geraniums, check the soil weekly, watering when the top inch is dry. Newly planted Perennial Geraniums need their soil consistently moist (to encourage rooting) for the first growing season. Once established, Perennials generally survive on rainfall alone, unless you experience long periods of drought.
Toxic for pets, causing rashes, low blood pressure, loss of appetite and general lethargy. If you have them indoors, keep away from pets who like graze.
Depending on the variety, Geraniums grow 4 to 48 inches tall and 6 to 36 inches wide.
“Deadhead” your Geraniums to maximize your blooms. When you see a Geranium bloom start to look brown and wilted, snip it or break it off with your hands. Follow your wilting bloom down to where it meets the main stem and break it off. Deadheading ensures your Geranium works hard constantly making new blooms. It’s a game-changer. Inspect and deadhead every two weeks, minimum. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Scented Geraniums have wonderful, zesty smells but it’s not the flowers so much as the fragrant leaves. These varieties are even edible and can add delicious flavours to meats, salads or even desserts. Make sure your variety is an edible kind before you get cooking!
Perennial and Annual Geraniums agree. A nutrient-rich well-draining soil is best. If you’re planting in beds, improve soil drainage and quality by mixing 3 inches of Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Garden Soil into the top 6 to 8 inches of native soil. For best results when growing Geraniums in containers, fill pots with light and fluffy Miracle-Gro® Moisture Control Potting Mix. When planting in raised beds, mix garden soil and potting mix 50/50.
Geraniums are natural pest repellers! They keep cabbageworms, earworms and Japanese beetles at bay. This makes them excellent bodyguards and friends to plants which are prone to these pests. Cabbage, corn, grapes and roses all benefit.
Geraniums are marathon bloomers from Spring to Fall, especially if you deadhead regularly. Blooms come in pink, purple, lilac, red, and white. There’s even bi-coloured varieties. Zonals sport the brightest colours. Regals are less bright but their flowers are larger and come in two–tone varieties.
Geraniums naturally repel many pests, but are prone to some, like Aphids (clusters of greenish-yellow little bugs) and Whiteflies (tiny bugs with white wings). Check under the leaves periodically. If you see these pests treat them with a safe pesticide like Ortho® Bug B Gon® ECO Insecticidal Soap.
Overfeeding of Nitrogen results in lots of lush vegetation but no flowers. Give your plants a thorough soaking to two or three days in a row, to help wash nutrients deep into the soil, past most of the roots. Stop fertilizing for the rest of the growing season.
Probably not enough food. Spray their foliage with liquid fertilizer like Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Food. Don’t exceed the instructions on the container. Feed every two weeks until the yellowing symptoms disappear.
There’s a number of possibilities. It could be low light. A lack of deadheading and pruning could be the cause. Excessive feeding and or watering. Overcrowding forces your Geranium to grow up long and tall to get about the competition.
Your Geranium is too cold. Geraniums do well in cooler temps than many other flowers, particularly the Regal varieties, but even they have their limits. If this is a potted plant, delay moving it outside until nighttime temperatures are regularly above 40 F (4C).
This is most common with potted Geraniums, and it’s usually because the plant is too soggy. Find a drier spot, improve drainage if needed and wait longer between watering.
Geraniums are true marathon bloomers, providing your garden with colourful flowers from Spring well into the Fall. They thrive in garden beds but also in pots on your porch. There’s even varieties that like to hang out in baskets.
Annual geraniums (Pelargonium species) Perennial geraniums (Geranium species)
Annual Geraniums need full sun, except for Ivy Geranium which prefer some shade. Perennial Geraniums however can grow in sun or shade, depending on the variety. All types appreciate a little protection form the hottest midday sun.
For annual Geraniums, check the soil weekly, watering when the top inch is dry. Newly planted Perennial Geraniums need their soil consistently moist (to encourage rooting) for the first growing season. Once established, Perennials generally survive on rainfall alone, unless you experience long periods of drought.
Toxic for pets, causing rashes, low blood pressure, loss of appetite and general lethargy. If you have them indoors, keep away from pets who like graze.
Depending on the variety, Geraniums grow 4 to 48 inches tall and 6 to 36 inches wide.
“Deadhead” your Geraniums to maximize your blooms. When you see a Geranium bloom start to look brown and wilted, snip it or break it off with your hands. Follow your wilting bloom down to where it meets the main stem and break it off. Deadheading ensures your Geranium works hard constantly making new blooms. It’s a game-changer. Inspect and deadhead every two weeks, minimum. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Scented Geraniums have wonderful, zesty smells but it’s not the flowers so much as the fragrant leaves. These varieties are even edible and can add delicious flavours to meats, salads or even desserts. Make sure your variety is an edible kind before you get cooking!
Perennial and Annual Geraniums agree. A nutrient-rich well-draining soil is best. If you’re planting in beds, improve soil drainage and quality by mixing 3 inches of Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Garden Soil into the top 6 to 8 inches of native soil. For best results when growing Geraniums in containers, fill pots with light and fluffy Miracle-Gro® Moisture Control Potting Mix. When planting in raised beds, mix garden soil and potting mix 50/50.
Geraniums are natural pest repellers! They keep cabbageworms, earworms and Japanese beetles at bay. This makes them excellent bodyguards and friends to plants which are prone to these pests. Cabbage, corn, grapes and roses all benefit.
Geraniums are marathon bloomers from Spring to Fall, especially if you deadhead regularly. Blooms come in pink, purple, lilac, red, and white. There’s even bi-coloured varieties. Zonals sport the brightest colours. Regals are less bright but their flowers are larger and come in two–tone varieties.
Geraniums naturally repel many pests, but are prone to some, like Aphids (clusters of greenish-yellow little bugs) and Whiteflies (tiny bugs with white wings). Check under the leaves periodically. If you see these pests treat them with a safe pesticide like Ortho® Bug B Gon® ECO Insecticidal Soap.
Overfeeding of Nitrogen results in lots of lush vegetation but no flowers. Give your plants a thorough soaking to two or three days in a row, to help wash nutrients deep into the soil, past most of the roots. Stop fertilizing for the rest of the growing season.
Probably not enough food. Spray their foliage with liquid fertilizer like Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Food. Don’t exceed the instructions on the container. Feed every two weeks until the yellowing symptoms disappear.
There’s a number of possibilities. It could be low light. A lack of deadheading and pruning could be the cause. Excessive feeding and or watering. Overcrowding forces your Geranium to grow up long and tall to get about the competition.
Your Geranium is too cold. Geraniums do well in cooler temps than many other flowers, particularly the Regal varieties, but even they have their limits. If this is a potted plant, delay moving it outside until nighttime temperatures are regularly above 40 F (4C).
This is most common with potted Geraniums, and it’s usually because the plant is too soggy. Find a drier spot, improve drainage if needed and wait longer between watering.
Companion plants are plants that lend a helping leaf to one another in terms of growth and production. One plant may attract an insect that might protect a companion plant. Another plant may act as a repellent for a bug that might be harmful to the plant next to it.
When growing different varieties of plants side by side, try to group them together by water needs. Deep-rooted vegetables like tomatoes and asparagus should be placed in the same bed, as they will thrive with less frequent (but more thorough) watering that soaks deep into the soil.
Shallow- to medium-rooted plants like beans and chard benefit from more frequent watering that saturates just the first few inches of soil. Wind soaker hoses around your plants and attach them to dual outlet electronic timers to easily manage your watering schedule for different beds.
Companion planting is a great way to ensure you have a garden that will grow healthy plants and produce large bounties. A lot of work goes into maintaining a productive garden, so it is worth the time, effort and research it takes to grow like-minded plants that will help each other out. We hope this takes some of the guesswork out of the process for you!
The most flexible way to grow lots of plants and vegetables is in containers. Whether it’s baskets, buckets, boxes, and barrels … your options are endless.
Container gardening is extremely versatile, you can grow anything and everything. Vegetables, flowers, herbs, shrubs, trees, you don’t have to pick one you can or all of them together. A filled planter can be heavy to move, so decide where your container garden will go and set up there.
Once you’ve found your spot, here are some herb and vegetable container gardens that are easy to grow – and tasty, too.
1. Salad Garden: Lettuces, cherry tomatoes, herbs
2. Pizza Garden: Basil, oregano, tomatoes, peppers
3. Perennial Herbs: Mint, lemon balm & oregano
In gardening there is a saying, it’s thriller, filler, and spiller. The “It” is the wow factor and getting it in your container garden is as easy as 1-2-3.
All container gardens need a little TLC. Container plants need airy soil that lets them spread their roots, plain soil is too dense. That means using something that promotes good drainage and proper airflow like Miracle-Gro® Potting Mix.
Your first step before planting, is to wet your potting mix well. Water the mix well and stir, making sure it’s moist all the way through. Next add your plant and top with more mix, leaving a little room at the top for watering.
Next trim any circling roots, then plant to about the same depth as the grow pot. Water often, making sure the mix doesn’t dry out.
An important ingredient to a thriving garden that is often overlooked is plant food. Plants pull nutrients from the soil to grow and those nutrients need to be replenished. Using a slow release fertilizer on its own is a great, low fuss option. It provides a small amount of food for an extended period – up to 3 months. Water soluble plant food is a great option too, but are more high maintenance. They provide a lot of nutrients instantly, and deliver results for your garden when used every 7-14 days.
For those who want results but find it hard to stick to a schedule, use a bit of both. Put down Miracle-Gro® Shake ‘n Feed® at the beginning of the season and after the first month, and boost your garden with Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Food when you remember throughout the season.
Frustrated by finding pests in the garden? Don’t waste time and money treating pests. Instead, follow our guide for preventing pests from becoming a problem in the first place. Test
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