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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 91431" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>I second that - My name is Star, and I'm a flower-fanatic. </p><p></p><p>Mums need also to be dead headed - take you top thumb nail and place it under the spent bloom, flick it off holding the stem with your index finger (like you did with dandelions when you popped their heads off as a kid)</p><p></p><p>The more you do this? The more blooms you will get, let the spent heads go into the ground for recycling. </p><p></p><p>Also if you live (depending on the zone) in a zone where you get a light frost before THanksgiving? You can cover the flowers at night with a sheet to lengthen the life of the plant. I never have cut them down once they die out due to cold, but I do cover with Pine straw, until the Spring. I wait until Spring, but I'm in the South and by the time that I uncover them from the pine straw I can see little greenies and then it's easy just to bend the straw like stems over and snap them or just gently pull them out to give the new growth a chance to live. Also check with your Extension office (soil sample) for how to fertilize or add some nutrients. Personally I love Miracle Grow. </p><p></p><p>FRUGAL TIP: If you go to Lowes at this time of the year there are pots and pots of 1/2 dead mums - or rather they are spent (bloomed) and no one will dead head them. I get them for about .25 each pot. Not all will live and again depending on where you live - but in the spring I have TONS of flowers. Actually I just did this spring finally give up on Mums that I have had blooming from a "dead pile Lowes deal" almost 6 years ago when we moved in and I had no budget for flowers. </p><p></p><p>Asters are not as hardy. And Hardy Mums DO tend to be a little tougher lasting or drought resistant. </p><p></p><p>Happy Planting</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 91431, member: 4964"] I second that - My name is Star, and I'm a flower-fanatic. Mums need also to be dead headed - take you top thumb nail and place it under the spent bloom, flick it off holding the stem with your index finger (like you did with dandelions when you popped their heads off as a kid) The more you do this? The more blooms you will get, let the spent heads go into the ground for recycling. Also if you live (depending on the zone) in a zone where you get a light frost before THanksgiving? You can cover the flowers at night with a sheet to lengthen the life of the plant. I never have cut them down once they die out due to cold, but I do cover with Pine straw, until the Spring. I wait until Spring, but I'm in the South and by the time that I uncover them from the pine straw I can see little greenies and then it's easy just to bend the straw like stems over and snap them or just gently pull them out to give the new growth a chance to live. Also check with your Extension office (soil sample) for how to fertilize or add some nutrients. Personally I love Miracle Grow. FRUGAL TIP: If you go to Lowes at this time of the year there are pots and pots of 1/2 dead mums - or rather they are spent (bloomed) and no one will dead head them. I get them for about .25 each pot. Not all will live and again depending on where you live - but in the spring I have TONS of flowers. Actually I just did this spring finally give up on Mums that I have had blooming from a "dead pile Lowes deal" almost 6 years ago when we moved in and I had no budget for flowers. Asters are not as hardy. And Hardy Mums DO tend to be a little tougher lasting or drought resistant. Happy Planting [/QUOTE]
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