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Pics. Field soils for garden mums should be tested prior to planting. If you are growing mums in pots for a single season, you can mix them in with other plants in a large container.
If the soil settles causing a depression around the plant, top it off with more. For the longest period of blooms, buy mums with buds that are just beginning to open. Tuck the mums in beds, borders or planters to keep the color coming until frost.
If mums plants are a little small for a container i add more fall sticks and twigs and pine cones and pumpkins and gourds, and bittersweet and leaves and any other sort of fallish thing i can find!
Tuck the mums in beds, borders or planters to keep the color coming until frost. Single application of controlled release fertilizer in containers or a single application of fertilizer in field grown mums will not be sufficient for quality garden mums. How to plant mums in the garden. Soil ph should be 6.0 to 6.8 with phosphorus and potassium at high levels.