Planting Petunias, Vinca, and Salvia – Family Plot

UT Extension Agent Joellen Dimond plants the Family Plot flower bed for summer color. This is the second year for the bed and it has been amended enough for now so after pulling out the winter flowers she only mixes up the soil and brakes up some dirt clods.
Before planting she sprinkles on slow release fertilizer and spreads mulch. After years of planting flowers, she has found it is easier to put the mulch down first and then plant the flowers through the mulch.

This year the theme is pink and purple. Joellen arranges each kind of plant on the before planting. The wave petunias are first. Joellen chose wave petunias because they will spread over the ground and fill in the bed and provide flowers throughout the growing season. They are the anchor of the bed. Then she lays out and plants the vinca and salvia.

When she plants, she scrapes the mulch to the side, digs the hole, plants the plants at container depth, fills in the soil, and spreads the mulch back around the plant.

Click below for other iterations of the WKNO flower bed:
Planting Summer Flowers:    • Planting Summer Flowers – Family Plot  
Planting Fall Flowers:    • Planting Fall Flowers - Family Plot  
Applying Pre-emergent in a Flower Bed:    • Applying Pre-emergent In a Flower Bed...  

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