meadow flowers but soil is fertile

[iamnotaprincess]

i have been given some meadow flower plants in pots, have googled them and they pretty much all need poor/alkaline soil, I wanted to put them where until a few days ago I had my tomato plants, but obviously the soil there was fertile enough to get the tomato plants to grow..what do i do?

We scattered wild flower seeds on the border of our parking spaces. It's great soil as it is at the edge of a field. They've grown brilliantly! We have poppies, cornflowers, daisies and some yellow flowers whose name I don't know!

I dont' have anything like that, do you think they would do well in semi fertile soil? If they do well in poor soil, does it mean that better soil is ok?

Well, the soil mine are in is good, and it certainly doesn't seem to have done them any harm. I'm absolutely no gardening expert though, I just scattered the seeds and hoped for the best!

The problem with too fertile soil is that the grass grows so well it smothers the other plants and flowers.

I have some rough grass that I mow paths into every year, only taking the whole grass off in September after the seeds have set. After doing this several years I now have orchids in it! I didn't plant them, the seeds must have been dormant.

So try letting the grass etc grow and mow it off late in the year when the seeds have dropped, and NEVER fertilise it.

IMO toms take a lot of goodness out of the soil so yr wild flowers could be happy if yr soil is fast draining and not too acid.

Thank you, I am going to try!