WHERE TO BEGIN:
1 - Make sure your garden pots/beds have good, healthy, well balanced soil. Add fresh compost to freshen them up for the season and mix well.

2. Mix in a 2-8-4 Fertilizer for flowers and Bonemeal. I like Gaia Green Power Bloom and typically get Bonemeal at Garden Works, but you can pick it up anywhere. Your flowers will be fine without these additions, but if you’re growing in a small space or in pots, it will definitely help feed them for the season. If you’re growing in pots, be sure to fertilize every couple of weeks with an organic kelp or fish fertilizer.

3. The following is a list of all the plants that need to be pinched, this is done so that your plants branch out and grow exponentially more stems. I’ll show you what to do when I hand the Flower Pack off to you, but essentially it’s pinching off the top 2-4 sets of leaves at the top of your plant to signal for it to start sending up stems from the base.

You can pinch the following flowers right away when you plant them: Zinnias, Snapdragons, Giant Marigolds.

Wait for the following plants to get bigger before you pinch: Amaranthus, Asters, Strawflower.

You don’t need to pinch the following plants, they’ll just do their own thing: Statice, Sunflowers, Yarrow, Sweetpeas.

PLANTING:
When planting, consider the height of plants, as well as where the sun is shining from and how some plants might shade others. You want all your flowers to have full sun.
Tall: Sunflowers, Amaranthus Coral Fountain, Strawflower.
Medium Height: Statice, Snapdragons, Marigolds, Zinnia Benary Giants, Yarrow.
Shorter: Asters, Green Thumb Amaranthus, Queen Lime Zinnias, Sweet Peas (can cascade or climb)

You can put tall plants at the back of your garden bed, or in the middle and then work around them. Be sure to net and stake taller plants to keep them upright.

Spacing needed for best results is 9 inches around for all the plants except the Asters, those can be a little closer together but everything else will do best with a circumference of 9- 12 inches depending on how much space you have.

*My apologies in advance that the below imagine is so small when looking at it on your phone, my farming skills unfortunately fall short at website creation sometimes.
Just zoom in and you’ll be able to see it. Also the bed size is supposed to say feet, not inches. *