Don't let your spring garden fizzle! You can keep your flowers blooming all summer with just a few strategic tips. 

• Choose cut and come again flowers like zinnias, gomphrena, dahlias, cosmos, black-eyed Susan, sweet peas, and more for continuous blooming all summer.
• Provide regular plant care with proper watering and fertilization to support new blooms.
• Pruning or cutting back certain flowers like cosmos, black-eyed Susans, and snapdragons mid-summer can promote new growth and fresh blooms.
• Get the top tips for keeping cut flowers fresh in a vase, such as cutting them in the morning and harvesting them from well-watered plants.
  
  Here are two recipes to make your own flower food. Remember that there are so many individual recipes out there, and you can experiment to find the right ratio of ingredients that works best for you!
  
  Bleach option:
  Mix
  2 tablespoons lemon juice
   1 tablespoon sugar
  1/4-tablespoon bleach
  add to 1 quart of lukewarm water and add flowers
  
  Vinegar option:
  Mix
  2 tablespoons white vinegar
  2 tablespoons sugar
  add to 1 quart of lukewarm water and add flowers
  
  For the full blog post that inspired this episode, just click here: https://homegrownfoodandflowers.com/do-flowers-bloom-after-being-cut/

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