We ✔️ off and completed our BIG fall project today! We made the most of this warm sunny day and finished up rewrapping the doors and finished getting the rows cleaned up and ready for 2025! We officially expanded the tunnel and wrapped the entire thing in better thicker plastic. She's secured up for winter and we'll be planting flowers in here come February!
That's a wrap (no pun intended) on our first year flower farming! On to year 2!
Behind the scenes of flower farming...we've already started flowers for next season!
Behind the scenes...what's blooming, holiday flowers and gifts and improvements we are doing!
New bouquets available for porch pickup!
$15 each.
More pics of them in comments.
Wahoo! It's Friday and the sun is shining. Let's see what's blooming and happening in our flower farm. Found something neat today.
I will be posting a few ready to go bouquets tonight so check back if you'd like fresh flowers!
Two nights of frost means one thing...time to start digging up the dahlias for storing tubers over the winter. First I'm searching for any seed pods I missed last week.
Here's how I go about digging dahlias up:
🌸 I use my hefty hedge trimmer to chop the top 2/3rds off my dahlias plants
🌸Then I look down near the ground for my little name tags and set it in my empty tub.If there is no tag I look to see what's around it or if there are remaining flowers on the plant and write that down on a blank tag and will refer to my master layout sheet at home for best identifying which dahlia it is.
🌸Using big shovel I carefully dig down around the dahlia tubers. The bigger the plant, usually means bigger tubers and need to start digging further from the dahlia stalk.
🌸 I give them a good shake to rid excess dirt, trim down the main stem and long dangly roots and set in the tub.
🌸 If lid fits I put it in the tub, if not I carefully stack and take all the dahlias in tubs home where I will let them air out for few days, clean them up and trim them down better
🌸I like to use vermiculite in my tubs
❤️While digging up my dahlias and putting them in tubs to take home I am looking at it's overall health! No gall, bug pest free, tubers are good and solid (not mushy or rotted). I either toss out bad ones right away or if not sure label that tub to double check it again later.
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Flowers are still pumping out lots of blooms!🤣
Open you pick tonight 4 to 7pm at Koru Aronia Berry Farm with Pizza Til Sundown doing large specialty wood fired pizzas to go!
Quick info on tomorrow's season celebration! Have fun picking a bucket of flowers + Pizza Til Sundown pizzas to go!
Yay this is a game changer! When you support small business you allow them to level up!