Designing A Perennial Cutting Garden

Select an inconspicuous location along a garage or in a back corner of your yard and be sure your cutting bed benefits from lots of sun and rich well drained soil just like your other beds.

Designing a perennial cutting garden. This perennial cutting garden fills a corner bed that s approximately 390 square feet. Give your cutting garden a sunny spot with well drained soil. A cutting bed offers plenty of planting freedom.

That s enough room to create a 3 season garden and it won t be. We like to incorporate a dose of a balanced slow acting granular organic fertilizer at the start of the season. The most efficient way to set up a cutting garden is to grow your flowers in rows as you would vegetables.

The steps below outline how to design a perennial garden that is easy to maintain and relatively easy to create even if you are a novice gardener. You can still mix some annual flowers into your perennial cutting garden. This garden design example includes only perennials but you could easily tuck in some zinnias gomphrena cosmos and nigella in between.

Your cutting flowers will need a soil that is rich in organic matter to improve water retention and drainage. If possible take time to work in compost and all purpose organic fertilizer. Plant a cutting garden.

With a designated cutting bed you can plant and cut without worry.