The 2023 growing season in 23 seconds 🌱💐
A little farm news sneak peek 🫣 🦆 We’re really excited to learn all there is to know about having ducks on the farm! They love to eat bugs and slugs without scratching and eating your garden vegetation. We don’t deal with much pest pressure here on the farm….EXCEPT for slugs. Hoping these new friends will help us with that! ;) Their compost and eggs are going to be an additional benefit! Now the snow just needs to melt away so we can have a home for these cuties! Do you have experience with ducks?! If so, I’d love to hear your tips,tricks, and advice! 👇 Also, shout out to our friend Erin and her son for doing a wonderful job raising ducklings and letting us be very excited customers☺️
The growing space is officially full and we have so many more seeds to start! Patiently waiting for the warmer weather to arrive so that many of these plant babies can head outside and make way for new ones! 🌱❄️
✨Dahlia Obsessed ✨ I’m currently working on my dahlia plans for the 2023 season in hopes that it goes better than this past year. The tubers were planted a little later than I’d hoped, which in return produced late blooms. There were only a few to enjoy before the first frost came and wiped them out. Having a protected high tunnel for indoor growing will surely help 👌 Looking forward to sharing more about that soon! ;)
The Bloom Bar is ready for your creativity! Come create your own mixed bouquet or quickly grab a pre made arrangement on our farm until 11:00 am!
So many fun things coming out of the garden today that it is so hard to choose what to share!
This cute little side table bundles of calendula and statice will be available at tomorrow’s market! 🤗
Just a little glimpse into the garden this evening. ✨
Flowers shown are statice, calendula, snapdragons, and a bunch of weeds 😉
Kiwi Blue Cerinthe Honeywort will be in this week’s farmers market mixed bouquets! Everytimenive incorporated this fun filler, I always get asked what it is. It’s unique with a pop of color 🤩
When you get a call to deliver flowers to the birthday girl (sweet 16) who is volunteering at the camp near you for the summer 🥰 Have I mentioned yet that I love this “job”!
100% field grown flowers from our flower farm 👌
Fresh Cut Ranuculus
Perfection 🤌
I’m talking about the Aviv White Ranuculus. Not my dirt filled farmer hands 🙃
This was fun to create 💐
Sad to see that daffodils and tulips are done for the 2022 season, but so excited for what’s to come! #seasonalflowers
There’s beauty at every stage ✨
It’s a family affair ✨
We’re trying something new this year….landscape fabric.
We’ve tried to avoid it, but when your growing on a large scale and don’t spray, weeds take over VERY quickly. Weeding takes time away from other important farm tasks and summer nights from our family. So, we’re giving it a go. Plus, this woven fabric is reusable and will last many years….
The boys had fun rolling out the 200’ foot rows while we staked it down. The next step is to burn holes into it (to prevent fraying), then outdoor planting will begin! 🌱
It’s Earth Day! May this be your reminder to plant something in your own yard (or containers) this growing season. It doesn’t need to be flowers or anything big and extravagant….a simple herb garden makes a difference 🌱 All you have to do is start 🌎
A cozy little greenhouse full of green and eager plants on this cold and rainy day ☔️
Once the forecast allows, snapdragons, bells of Ireland, delphinium, and rudbeckia all need to get transplanted out into the fields which will open up room in the grow room and green house spaces for warm loving starts like sunflowers, celosia, zinnias, and more!
Growing in Low Tunnels
I’ve been spending a lot of time in our low tunnels planting out cool season crops. There have been a few questions about them and how they are beneficial.
Here are the top reasons why I love them so far!
My favorite (and least favorite) part of this flower farming gig…nature. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It has tested my patience more times than I care to admit. The grow space has run out of room with many cool season seedlings wanting to get into the ground, but moving at the pace of nature has allowed me to slow down and catch up on other things which is also important.
An empty greenhouse didn’t last long…
There’s just a few empty spaces that I’ll be filling later today and tomorrow and it’s already full. Time for a bigger greenhouse 🌷😁
Side note: everything that is inside is very cold tolerant. Even though it’s 75 degrees inside, the night temps are still around freezing inside. So I have the presprouted ranuculus, delphinium, yarrow, and soon to be rudbeckia and echinacea.
If you don’t know much about cool flowers, I highly recommend the book “Cool Flowers” authored by Lisa Mason Ziegler (an amazing flower farmer).
