This mix of flowers for cooking is composed of 18 annual species to be planted in a corner of the vegetable garden, a flowerbed. Height: 50 to 70 cm. Sowing: April to June. Flowering: July to October. Diversity: common dill, red orach, common borage, garden marigold, cornflower, garden chrysanthemum, cosmos, dwarf yellow sun, wood mallow, marigold, dwarf nasturtium, small burnet... Sowing density: 2 to 5 grams / m². Soil preparation before sowing A good cleaning with a hoe is necessary. You can practice the false sowing technique. You just need to clean your plot once, wait 2 to 3 weeks to give the weed seeds time to germinate. Then you do a second cleaning to have a perfectly clean soil before sowing the flower meadow. After removing the last traces of weeds, give the soil a good dig to loosen the surface of the soil to create a well-refined seedbed. It is not necessary to loosen it in depth, but only the first 3 or 4 centimeters. Sowing a flower meadow Sow the seeds broadcast between April and June, spreading them well over the entire seedbed. When the seeds are sown, gently dig the seeds into the soil on the surface, like sowing a lawn. Water thoroughly, then during the dry period, it should take a few weeks for them to germinate. Flowering Flowering from June to October.