What is growing on people? It is Flower Daddy Kevin here and it's a new

transformation for me in 2020 as I evolve further and further in my gardening gifts and

skills and work I have moved into the realm of flowers now perhaps adequately named the Bachelor Button

Flower is one of my favorites that I'm growing right now.

It's also called a cornflower and in fact someone who's been on the

podcast before my friend B from Flora Cosina.

She's an edible flower grower and she worked into baking and cooking as well.

She sent me some cornflower little petals and they're very beautiful, bright, bright blue and look

amazing just sprinkled onto a salad or a dessert, but these are something that you can

certainly just grow for ornamental pollination purposes, for beauty and

just straight up I love flowers you can grow them as a cut flower and of course you can use

them as a garnish as well now there's different colors they're traditionally blue and

they're a very pleasant and beautiful color of blue.

And this is someone who is partially colorblind, so really don't take my word for that,

but grow them and find it out.

There are red varieties. There are white varieties. You could do a red, white and blue type of patriotic

display. You could play with them on the borders. They grow really, really prolifically. You're going to get about two to three feet in height and they will recede and so you can recede them and just grow them in a particular area and they'll come back the next year.

Now dead heading is

going to be the way to get a lot more production out of them. That's also going to help

prevent self-seeding if you don't want them to keep growing back in a particular area.

So, you know, watch out for all of that, but deadheading also can add some production to your

Bachelor button.

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