Show Notes
Want to know the best way to keep your hanging baskets healthy, strong – and most importantly – loaded with blooms all summer long this year?
If there is one issue that seems to plague gardeners when it comes to their hanging baskets – it’s how to keep them healthy and blooming longer for more than just a month or two at most! Of course when you pick those new baskets out early in the year, they are always lush and full of blooms, but that changes so quickly.
Unfortunately, by mid to late summer, a large majority of hanging baskets begin to rapidly fade. What was once a bright bouquet of foliage and blooms often turns into an eyesore filled with brown leaves and a sparse collection of struggling flowers.
In today's epsiode - Jim & Mary cover three simple tips that will not only make it possible to keep your baskets thriving, gorgeous and blooming – but to do so all the way through summer and deep into fall!
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