Flower Gardening Tips: Boost Pollinators with Beautiful and Edible Blooms!

Waiting for the warmth to embrace direct sowing? I get it! Even here in Orlando, Florida (Zone 10A), a few surprise cold fronts can sneak in. These 72-cell trays are my secret weapon. Sowing rows of flowers, like delightful nasturtiums, not only adds beauty but also invites butterflies and pollinators. Did I mention they’re edible with a peppery kick?

Sunflowers, zinnias, and tethonia join the party, drawing in a buzzing crowd of butterflies and bees. No need for the indoor seedling hustle – as soon as that last frost bid us adieu, direct sow your way to a vibrant, buzzing garden! 

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It is still a little bit too cold outside to just direct so seeds for flowers because even me here in Orlando Florida Zone 10A I’m still expecting at least one maybe two cold fronts that will drop between the 40s maybe even low 30s and that will definitely kill off

Any kind of flower seedlings you may have growing instead I like to get these 72 cell seed trays and I just start sewing seeds for rows and rows of all sorts of different flowers that are beneficial for the butterflies and other pollinators some of my favorites is actually these ners right here these

Flowers are really beautiful and they’re edible they attract tons of beneficial insects to your garden they have a delicious peppery flavor kind of reminiscent of mustard greens or redo I also really love to grow sunflowers zenas and Tonia which is this orange flower right here all of those flowers

Attract so many butterflies and bees to my garden if you don’t want to be sewing tons of seeds for them and keeping them warm indoors and that sort of thing then it’s totally okay to direct sew seeds as soon as your last average spring prostate has passed