How Do You Make Cut Flower Food?
Prepared cut flower preservative or food packets, are often included with store-bought cut-flower bouquets, but there may not be enough to keep the flowers fresh for as long as possible. And flowers picked fresh from the garden don’t come with a ready-made packet of food. With a few basic ingredients you can probably find around your home, you can mix up your own cut-flower food and keep your blooms fresh so they can be enjoyed longer. Fill a one quart container with warm water. A clean glass container like a milk bottle or Mason jar works best. Mix together one teaspoon of white sugar, two teaspoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice and one teaspoon of household bleach. Stir the bleach mixture into the water. Pour the water into the vase you have chosen to hold your bouquet. Fill a vase with warm water to three or four inches from the top. Dissolve one aspirin in one quarter cup of warm water. Pour the aspirin mixture into the vase. Drop in one penny. Add one quarter cup of regular (not
