Cut flowers
Pincushion flower (Scabiosa) Planting Calculator
Scabiosa
Everything you need to plan Pincushion flower (Scabiosa): recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.
At a glance
- Recommended spacing
- 9″
- Planting pattern
- Intensive bed
- Time to first production
- 100 days from sowing
- Succession planting
- Recommended
- Every 21 days
- Start indoors
- 6 weeks before
- before last frost
- Production pattern
- Cut-and-come-again
- Hardy annual
Plan your Pincushion flower (Scabiosa) beds
Prefilled with Pincushion flower (Scabiosa)'s recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.
Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 9″Range null–null″
Your plan
326
Total plants
Based on 1.63 plants/sq ft at 9″ spacing
- Seeds to start (10% buffer)
- 359
- 72-cell trays needed
- 5
- 128-cell trays needed
- 3
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Planning notes
- Horizontal netting
- Landscape fabric
Cut-and-come-again. A planting keeps producing new stems over a relatively long harvest period when it is picked regularly, so successive plantings are usually spaced farther apart.
- This crop can be direct sown.
- Support netting is commonly used.
- Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.