hey friends it is getting to be that time of the season where your hanging
baskets and your containers may be looking a little sad stay tuned as I
tell you how easy it is to refresh your petunias and your superbells
Hey everybody it is Jenny welcome to Gardening with Creekside today I want to
tell you show you how easy it is to refresh your hanging baskets and your
containers that have maybe your petunias your calibrachoa is in them because it
is midsummer and inevitably those plants are going to start looking a little sad
a lot of times your especially your hanging baskets they will get really
long and leggy and you've got to take a couple of very simple measures to take
care of them so first of all what we're going to do
is with your hanging baskets you're gonna get a great pair of scissors or
clippers and you're just going to trim off around the bottom of the container
at least about 1/3 to 1/2 of the plant now people freak out all the time
because they're like Jenny I have to cut it yes you have to cut it pruning is a
good thing because you're going to trim it around the bottom you do not have to
be very particular or very tidy about it just go ahead and whack it back take
those scissors clip it all the way around and as soon as you get done with
that you're going to go ahead and give it a good healthy dose of your liquid
soluble fertilizer I love the proven winners soluble
fertilizer because it has all the nutrients especially for those flowering
annuals it even has a special iron that helps really green up those calibrachoas
and those petunias so give it a good healthy dose of fertilizer now you're
putting your basket it's going to look a little sad for about 10 days it's gonna
look a little naked a little pitiful if it's on your front porch just move it
move it somewhere where people aren't going to see it until it flushes back
out again then what's this gorgeous in two weeks
you can hang it back up on your porch same thing with a container so we're
here at the AquaPots which are looking amazing aren't they but if my petunias
start getting really long and they look really skinny and thin up here at the
top I would just trim around the bottom I've done
this years and years and years at our house with containers both your hanging
baskets and containers are going to be the same way rarely will you find in
your landscape that you're going to have to trim them back because they look thin
or pitiful if that's the case they're probably not getting enough food in the
landscape so you can't do the same thing you can trim them back and give them
lots of good liquid fertilizer remember you want to be feeding your flowering
annuals every seven to ten days because food equals flowers so don't be afraid
trim it back you can see this one how it looks right now and then in a couple of
weeks it's going to look like this
okay guys it has only been a few short weeks since I severely cut this hanging
basket back look at this look at this it is absolutely gorgeous it is full there
is foliage all the way in the center of the basket blooms galore and she is one
happy hanging basket so see I know it may be scary to take the scissors and
the pruners to your hanging baskets but in the long run trust me it is what's
best for the plant it rejuvenates it and it does gorgeous now what did I do the
last couple of weeks I said it was liquid fertilizer the p.w liquid soluble
fertilizer two times then I just simply watered it regularly every single day it
got a nice little drink of water and it sat out in full Sun the foot you have to
have a minimum of six hours for both your superbells and your petunias to
bloom I had a customer a couple of weeks ago she said I bought a hanging basket
from you she said it's gorgeous and it's full and
it's lush and it's green but it has no blooms after a lot of questions guess
what she had it in full shade you have to have your basket in at least six
hours of Sun to get these flowers you have to have your basket in at least six
hours of Sun to get these flowers now hanging baskets this is the time of year
where things are going to start to look a little sad middle to the end of June
because again we're in North Carolina zone 7b we've already had a pretty good
long extensive growing season this is the time of year where we really find
that your petunias and calibrachoa need to be trimmed up so whether it is a
hanging basket or is in the landscape or in containers you probably need to give
your flowers a little bit of a haircut if you remember when we planted up this
AquaPot I told you that the petunias were a little leggier than I liked so
what I've done over the past couple of weeks is simply gently gone in there and
prune them because I didn't want to cut them back real severe
and I've pruned these look how tight they are nice and full remember this one
was planted week or two before this guy was so that's what makes the difference
in how much more growth is in this aqua pot versus this one but again they're
tight these petunias there's not a lot of
empty space up here and as they continue to grow then they will trail down just
like this beautiful specimen of a plant is doing so don't be afraid to trim back
your petunias your calibrachoa is really almost any of your flowering annuals
give them a little haircut give them the shot of fertilizer good water on a
regular basis and you will rejuvenate the plant and this is what we have to do
in gardening nothing this maintenance-free you have to get a
little TLC every once in a while and they will give you flowers in return I
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