October is pansy time.
October 1st, 2009
October’s cool weather is when you want to plant pansies in your gardens, in pots on your front porch and in planters on your back deck.
A fun Halloween display is to place a caricature-type pumpkin on a pedastal in a bed of yellow, orange and black pansies.
Pansies need full sun for best blooms. Since they are annuals, they are heavy feeders, so work in a timed-release fertilizer (a six-month formula is good) so they are continuously fed without you having to always do it.
You do not have to remove the old flowers on pansies to get new flowers. Cold weather, however, can make them limp and leggy. When that happens, use old scissors to give them a hair cut and they’ll be blooming again in no time.
Pansies will keep your garden colorful and attractive now through May when it’s time to plant petunias and geraniums again.
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