We’re NOT Growing These Flowers in 2020

The worst thing about starting a flower farm might be planting flowers you regret. We planted our first cut flower garden in 2015.  It has been a steep upward trajectory since then, as any beginning flower farmer can tell you. Well, what I mean to say is that it has...
How to Grow Dahlias

How to Grow Dahlias

Everyone wants to know how to grow dahlias these days.  How do you plant dahlias?  Where do you plant dahlias?  What kind of fertilizer do you use for lots of dahlia blooms?  How do you stake dahlias?  You’d have to be hiding under a rock not to notice how...
Easy to Grow Cut Flowers

Easy to Grow Cut Flowers

Easy To Grow Cut Flowers Today we’re talking about easy to grow cut flowers, but first I should acknowledge that it’s been a while since you heard from us here. I could follow that up with a string of apologies or excuses, but I won’t bore any of us...
August Garden

August Garden

The August garden feels like the peachy bloom in a year’s bouquet.  When I was a teacher (in that other life before flowers took over), August was a wild, crazy, exhausting month.  Since the flowers came, things have changed.  This year, August has been a...
Things Gardening Has Taught Me

Things Gardening Has Taught Me

It’s both thrilling and unsettling to start something new.  If I give myself enough time I can usually talk myself out of it.  Train to run a 5K?  Nah, I’ll probably break an ankle or something.  Join a Facebook group with thousands of strangers?  Nope.  I’m an...
Early June Garden Walk

Early June Garden Walk

We’ve been whirling around in our gardens for the past several weeks in a scramble to get everything planted, weeded, mulched, staked, and fertilized.   May was madness, with its sultry temperatures and astonishing glut of peonies and ranunculus that came...