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Geraniums are easy to grow - and add such wonderful color to any garden...
There a few great rules to follow when planting Geraniums. If planted correctly, you will have wonderful huge flowers from early summer to late fall.
Don't jump the gun when going to plant your geraniums. I am sure many gardeners out there are so
ready to get their gardening underway, and can't wait to set in their geraniums. Yes, you may get them to take and grow, but as a rule they will not flourish, as they could if planted at the correct time. The best time to plant geraniums is when the temps will not ever dip below 50 degrees.
Roots will not grow well if they are started in low temperatures, the roots get a poor start, and as a rule stay weak through the growing season.
Where to plant, geraniums love sun... This is a given. Many gardeners claim t
hey have success in partial shade. But-are the blooms what they should be, in number, and in size? The best light for geraniums is sun light, at least 6-19 hour of sun light is optimal. If you are going to pot your geranium in a hanging pot, make sure not to hang it under overhangs, unless you are sure the sunlight is reaching the plant 6-10 hours a day.
I suggest using a good store bought potting soil, one that is heavy on peat bottom moss, to insure good drainage. Don't add any rocks or pea gravel in the bottom of your planters, geraniums grow better when they have loads of room for roots to spread out.
Geraniums love water. You can't over water a geranium plant. One thing to keep in mind, geraniums love water, but, they don't like to a heavy soil that 
allows the roots to sit in a mud like consistency. Remember keep the soil light and airy. Geraniums love to drink water, and slightly dry out between drink...
Another tip in regard to watering. Geraniums don't tolerate water on their leaves and flower, to any great existent. So keep your geraniums away from sprinklers, and forget sprinkling the leaves and flowers of a geranium plant.
Thinking of purchasing your geraniums early? Perhaps you plan to store them under artificial lights? Yes, they will grow, but again the plant will not have the great root system... I suggest waiting until your outdoors temperature will suit planting your plants out of doors.
Fertilize Your Geraniums frequently. Fertilize with liquid fertilizer or a blend of 
time release fertilizer that you can blend into the soil. Geraniums are heavy feeders, so weekly feedings will ensure lots of large healthy blooms.
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Please stop in and visit my other Garden related lenses. I love to garden, and have had great fun putting together my gardening lenses here at Squidoo... I hope you will stop in and check out some of my tried and true gardening tips... Shar's Gardening Lenses...
- Planting Rose Bushes in Containers
- If you follow these simple rules, your rose bush will be more than happy to give you years of beautiful colorful rose's...
With the exception of large climbers, most roses can be grown successfully in containers.When met with these requirements one can grow miniatures right through roses that can attain a height and spread of up to five feet. - Tulips -- Plant Them Right And Watch Them Flourish...
- Before we talk planting -- lets talk a bit of tulip trivia...
In history, the Dutch will be remembered for their passion, and production of tulips. After 400-plus years, the Dutch people still enduring a love affair with the tulip. First introduced to Holland in 1593, the tulip has become a lasting symbol for the country Holland. Ask anyone, anywhere to name things that remind one of the Dutch or Holland, as a rule they will respond with the answer tulips, windmills and wooden shoes....
A Great Place For All You Gardener's To Visit...The Digest At Old And Sold
Take time to visit one or more of the articles below. I have listed just a couple out of the hundreds of great gardening articles that can be found at the "Digest" At Old And Sold...Please see links below...
A Few Very Interesting Articles
- The Single Woman - On Making a Garden
- Gardening has been discovered by many single women as an avocation which grows in interest and in value. As housing developments have increased the opportunities for single women to escape from a too-gregarious existence an increasing number of them have found it possible to do some gardening.... Read More
- Window Box Gardening
- If eyes are the windows of the soul, as is commonly said, the old proverb may also be interpreted as meaning that through the windows shines the soul of the house. Nor is this as fantastic an idea as it may seem at first-for who of us does not recognize the spirit which lies back of bare, unadorned windows, ill-kept porch and window boxes, or the plain bare house, however neat, which has no provision made for its adornment beyond the actual necessities, and the bright, cheerful one with snowy curtains, neatly drawn shades, and windows and front steps or porch-according to whether it lies in town or country-all a-bloom? ... Please Read On
- Gardens - Colonial Garden Making
- " There is not a softer trait to be found in the character of those stern men than that they should have been sensible of these flower-roots clinging among the fibres of their rugged hearts, and felt the necessity of bringing them over sea, and making them hereditary in the new land." ... Please Read on
A Few Reads On Gardening...
Geraniums: The Complete Encyclopedia
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Scented Geraniums: Knowing, Growing, and Enjoying Scented Pelargoniums
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Growing Pelargoniums and Geraniums: A Complete Guide
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Hardy Geraniums: The Complete Guide to the Genus
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Growing & Using Scented Geraniums: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-131 (Storey/Garden Way Publishing Bulletin)
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Do you have tips you can share -- on growing wonderful Geraniums? Please take a moment to pass them on...
WorldTravelers916
this is a great tip, i am a huge hoticulture fan.
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Posted September 15, 2008
Jasonb702
Great information Shar. Keep up the good work.. we all love these lens's..
Shawn Bishop
Posted September 15, 2008
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
My mother always has several pots of geraniums going. They're pretty.
Great lens
Lizzy
Posted August 09, 2008
KimGiancaterino wrote...
I love geraniums. I've got them everywhere in my garden, the same ones I've been propagating for years. The scented ones are heavenly.
Posted June 30, 2008
Evelyn_Saenz wrote...
Thank you for reminding me that my geraniums need fertilizer. That must be why they are loosing all their leaves.
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Posted May 19, 2008
Piksychick wrote...
Where I live geraniums are plentiful year round. In fact the city uses them everywhere. They're pretty, although I'd love to see colours other than pink and red.
Posted May 19, 2008
Barkely wrote...
I love all geraniums. I have a chocolate mint scented geranium that is heavenly when you walk past and get a whiff. I keep mine in pots and bring them in to enjoy all winter. Great lens!
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