How to Help Flowering Plants Bloom Longer

If you want your flowers to bloom all season, choose long blooming and repeat blooming flowering perennials. While perennials return year after year, annuals will also have longer bloom time too with proper care and maintenance.All flowering plants perform longer when taken care. Here are a few gardening tips to keep your plants blooming.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• gardening gloves
• plant fertilizer
• watering can
• mulch or compost
• various gardening tools

How to Help Flowering Plants Bloom Longer

1. After the first bloom, dead head the decayed flower. To do this simply pinch off the dead bud with your fingers.

2. Fertilize plants every 5 to 6 weeks Flowering plants can be heavy feeders and require nourishment to bloom again. A typical garden fertilizer that contains 10% nitrogen, 10% phosphorus and 10% potash is useful. The phosphorus component produces flower buds.

3. Water plants regularly, at least an inch of water each week to bloom.

4. Keep soil cool and moist with mulch or compost to help keep flowers blooming.