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Nurturing a Winter Wonderland: My Essential Flower Farming Practices
As winter settles in, many people tuck away their gardening gloves and wait for spring. But for flower farmers like me, winter isn’t a time to step back—it’s an opportunity to lay the groundwork for next season’s blooms. Here at Ross Flower Farm in the beautiful Skagit Valley of Washington, I’ve come to embrace winter as a season of preparation, care, and quiet anticipation. There’s something deeply rewarding about tending to my flower farm in the crisp air, knowing that each small effort now will bring bursts of color in just a few months. So let’s grab a warm drink, bundle up, and dig into the ways you can nurture…
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Optimizing Seed Planning for a Flourishing 2025 Flower Season
As a growing flower farmer, every season is a new opportunity to learn, refine, and improve. With each passing year, I discover more about what works best for my farm, and 2025 is no exception. This year, I’m taking a more intentional approach to seed planning by expanding my seed inventory tracking and fine-tuning my sowing schedule. My goal is to make well-informed decisions about when and how to start seeds, setting my flowers up for success from the very beginning. Streamlining My Seed Inventory I started by enhancing my existing seed inventory spreadsheet, adding more details to ensure I capture everything I need to know at a glance. From…
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A Dahlia Cutting Drama: A Comic Guide to Propagating Your Prized Petals!
Ah, the delicate dance of dahlia cuttings! It’s like orchestrating a symphony with clippers and compost. Picture this: you’re standing in front of your awakening tubers, scissors in one hand, determination in the other, ready to propagate your prized petals. But wait! Before you dive into this floral frenzy, let’s take a whimsical walk through the wondrous world of dahlia cuttings. Act One: The Dahlia Cutting Conundrum You approach your dahlia tuber showing it’s first sprout with the grace of a ballerina and the precision of a surgeon. “To snip or not to snip,” you ponder dramatically, like a Shakespearean actor contemplating the fate of a dashing hero. With a…
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Masterful Garden Strategy: Unleash Your Green Thumb with Expert Garden Planning
I have dreams about my garden. What I want it to be, what I want to grow, how I want it to benefit us and others, and what it could potentially grow to be one day. My ultimate goal is to have a hobby farm with a variety of animals which will create a ecological haven where we will work to do our part help heal the earth and humanity. But first, garden planning. While planning my garden, I learned there are a lot of details which need to be considered and addressed during the process. To name a few; you need to think about the specific plants you want…
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