Hi everybody, it's Joe Nampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardener, and welcome to the Joe Gardener

show.

This year in my vegetable garden, we're dedicating more space to flowers, specifically

pollinator and beneficial insect attracting flowers in some space for beautiful cut flowers

as well.

And I feel like I'm kind of late to the game here, but I realized there was room around

the interior perimeter fence line sufficient enough for new beds, although not as big as

my food beds, but where we could really dedicate some space for more native non-edibles to

draw in the good insects.

So in January, that's what we did.

We built new beds, filled them with soil cubed, my favorite composted soil mix, and now

we're finishing out with the planting.

And I'm very excited about that, and it got me thinking about succession planting with

flowers, just like we do to get the most out of our vegetable garden.

But the question is, do you keep planting more of the same summer classics as the season

goes on?

And all the while, continuing to cut back on the flowers that have already been blooming

their little hearts out, or do you hold back available space to dedicate to the next

planting of fresh, new, different flowers that are best grown at a different time of

year?

So many questions from this veg heavy gardener that needed a flower refresher from one

of the best in the business for commercial flower growing.

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