Fall On The Flower Farm (Tour)
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As fall weather rolls in, the farm is changing, and how we manage it has to adapt too. Cooler weather means less growth in the summer flowers, so I need to be careful how I pick over the upcoming weeks. And it will only be so long till frost comes, and ends the 2023 season. Which is starting to feel like a good thing...
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I love that you repeat the name of the flower while you talk about it. I wouldn’t mind seeing the names onscreen. Sometimes people will flash the name and I never have enough time to read it before it’s gone again. Thank you!
I usually try to do that when I'm doing unboxings and seed stuff, but it adds like 8 hours to the editing, lol, and Ian won't do it, so I'm not ready to commit to titles for the farm tours. For a quick fix, you could try turning on the CC on your youtube. I usually have mine on, and I find it does a really good job of catching the correct words. And then you can pause the video to take notes. Which helps me get the names of stuff when I'm looking for it myself
The transcript is where I go for names and other information I want.
B leaves so that there's more air full between the plants just like when you puke tomatoes or squash I think xunions could do this and worth a try
The flowers are gorgeous, and I love that you showed the messy parts too. It makes you guys so relatable to me, as I look at my messy home garden. I can't wait to see your garden next year, but I love your winter content also.❤
I think we are all there with having messy gardens by now, lol
Planting garlic, chives, leeks, catnip, fennel, dill and cilantro will help repel aphids. Marigolds are also known to drive away a number of unwanted pests. Research good companion plants for these garden additions and place them wisely, they can help a lot
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Thanks for covering all the necessary details of flower harvesting.
Glad it was helpful!
It's so sad! The season went sooo quick!
It really feels like that for me too!
Garden Answer put up a video today. The zinnias are so beautiful,just a short video but a glimpse of what is still looking great at the beginning of fall.
I will check it out
"and I'll show you all the things that suck" "they're all splitting, so I guess I'm gonna have to eat them all" LMAO!!! All kinds of butt-savers happening on the farm. I should grow butt-savers, cuz that's what I really need. LOL! This is a great tour. Learned so much from it. And I got to see lots of big puffy marigolds a couple of kitties. What more could I ask for? Have a great Sunday!
Lol, thanks so much!
You should paint the roof on your sign red. The front garden looks glorious.
Yes I thought that also.
The only red is the actual roof, lol. We actually mainly use the blue of the door in our marketing.
Cinnamon basil was a new one for me this year, and oh my.... it smells so amazing, and I think I've cut mine at least four times this year. Kansas City, here, zone 6a.
new glasses. look good. next week is Thanksgiving in Canada...looking forward how your sales are!!
I'm crossing my fingers for a big weekend!
You appear really healthy and happy after a rough season. Hooray for you two.
The stand and garden around it are great! Great reminder to put the beauty where people are going to gather and pass through.
Water is an issue for us - nothing grows without irrigation here. So it took a while to get the garden going. But very worth the effort
one could say she is super glad about her glads 16:00
I feel like you all could make about a million dried flower pumpkins. They've been incredibly popular for me. Have you ever tried it?
We made them for the first time this week, and they sold well. I'm excited to see how they do for Thanksgiving next week. But I'm still crunching numbers - they are actually pretty costly to make, and I'm not sure if I'm making money with selling them for $20. I'm going to make another batch and track the labour closer to see. They are fun to make though, so I hope I can keep making them, lol
Really liked the tour and the talk. Lots of great info and I felt I was there walking with you both. Thanks Serena and Ian.
Glad you enjoyed it
thank you for the update!👍🏾
Any time!
Good timing to watch this video, I just came back from the garden after I ripped out the terribly diseased zinnias... I couldn't look at them anymore. Hobby grower here, so it is not a big deal, but really annoying how sick they get... and I live in a 'normal climate' no extremes here 🤷
I love your outlook on everything and try to carry it over into my garden and life. You truly inspire everyone
Thanks
Love the front garden! Peaked at it in your other videos. Very beautiful addition to your farm!
We have kept meaning to share it, but then it would get cut from the vlogs for time. I'm glad we finally got to show an end of season
Yay for seed shopping plans! I have started my list already. Thanks for another terrific video.
🎵🎶It's the most wonderful time of the year...🎵🎶
OMG I love those flowers.
Thanks
bulb crates i have two for planting now to buy my bulbs! what a great idea!
Ian and I fight over the bulb crates, because they are so great for so many things. I'm really hoping my bulbs come in crates again this year
I’d use chalkboard paint on the inside of your roadside stand and use it to advertise (instead of the small one)
Much easier to see & read from the road
We plan this winter to get a "farm fresh flowers" sign for along the road, and then to be able to use the chalk board to advertise specifics, like "ranunculus is now in season!"
Yes they will do well
I love the garden by the stand! And I can't wait to see what you put together for Canadian thanksgiving. Let's hope the frost holds off! 🐈❤️🐈
We got down to 1c last night, and I thought the farm was done for sure, but we are still going! So I might have a strong Thanksgiving weekend. It will be a bit till the video though, because we have a back log of videos. This tour was current. But we haven't edited the Sept markets yet
@@YouCantEatTheGrassOohh! That's close--hope you make it! I'm in the US, so I'll get to watch the video for my thanksgiving!
Always injoy listening and learning from you Serina and Ian. You guys are one of my favorites. All my Zinnias are shutting down too , kinda sad I know. But rest is coming. You deserve it. 😊
One of these I'm going to succession plant the zinnias better, and then they will be less sad looking come fall. But, I still like them, even when they are diseased and sad, lol
Your hair looks so pretty!
I washed it before the video, lol. I usually have hat head, because I wear a sun hat, but will take it off briefly to film so my face is visible.
Great video!
Thanks!
You are a great vlogger!
I appreciate that
Wow, watching you get up from a squatting position using only leg power was impressive. For us older people that is not easy. Thanks for the video!
Lol, use it or lose it. I squat a lot for the farming. I'm sure it doesn't look as smooth in the spring before I get my farming muscles back
Someone told me about soaking cinnamon sticks in very hot water which acts like a deterrent to mold, fungi on plant leaves. Right get those aphids off too. Plus it smells good.
Dilute 1 litre into 2 or 3 litres and spray.
Yeah, it's the time when nature spreads seeds, so enjoy you chard, which just might survive the winter. It's sweeter after first light frost too.
We usually have about half our chard plants survive the winter. Especially if there is a lot of leaves left on to die back and self mulch the pla t
The aster yellows disease is caused by the aster yellows phytoplasma (AYP) which is a phloem-limited, bacterium-like organism and is vectored by the aster leafhopper, Macrosteles quadrilineatus, a phloem-feeding insect of the order Hemiptera.
Holy Smokes! That’s a mouthful. 😂
That's super interesting! I'd always thought it was a virus
I love glads
Sunchokes - edible tuber and nice looking flowers that you could sell!
We have them, but our season isn't long enough for blooms. I use the leaves though from time to time- they have pretty good vase life
When you talk about cost, time management, etc., it would seem to me to be more efficient and prudent with your money to order plugs for the week you want to grow them out. Now is the time for bulk order discounts and you can choose the week you want them delivered. As a home grower, I'm ordering all my perennials and getting them at an average price of $1.82 each including shipping. You can get your annuals, too. I figured out the cost of soil, perlite, vermiculite, peat moss, water, electric, and my time. I decided it was worth it. God Bless and have a wonderful holiday season! I presume you're doing your Christmas show, so I wish you a sell out!
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Hair is looking lovely today ❤ So sad for your sedum, mine is spectacular this year. My dahlias, well they are a month behind a normal year..and mr frost is coming..😢 we win some...
I noticed the hair too Serina. Looked like a good hair day! Fell beautifully!
Lol, I mentioned this in another comment - but I always have hat head, because I'm always filming during my work, and I always wear a hat outside. We filmed this after a shower, but before I did any work - good hair, lol. It makes me giggle, because its one of those things that gets lost in translation in the process of film making. In real life, no one sees my hair. But for videos, I always take my hat off, because the camera can't focus on my face properly.
I enjoyed the walk through your fall garden. Thank you.
I am curious as to how many glads you fit into a bulb crate when you plant. I am seriously considering doing this as an option for not having bulbs take up bed space.
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I grew coco gold this year and they were huge! I feel like they do smell very strong, which I’m not a fan of but I tried drying some and they retained their color and shape surprising well
I love the smell of marigolds. I love that after picking them my clothes will smell like them for a day. But I know not everyone is like me. Most of the scent is in the greenery, so if you remove the leaves, they shouldn't have any scent in the home
@@YouCantEatTheGrass I did notice there was a lot less smell once I took them inside to dry. Thanks for the tip! I think the strength of the smell had to do with how many I planted and the fact that the plants were huge so it makes sense that the scent is from the plant itself
Swiss chard amazing and beautiful
It's just been happily growing under a bunch of weeds all season, lol. I like plants that take care of themselves, lol
You should look into Cardinal Basil. OMG I love it's better than cinnamon basil, dare I say it.
Don't strip or leave diseased leaves in the field and make sure to sanitize your clippers between rows. Zowie zinnias are so worth the extra trouble it takes to grow 💮
This is a great point, especially for perennials. The zinnias don't matter and will be dead in a week because of the weather, so I don't really care. But I wouldn't want to be infecting my peonies with something serious
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Order and release ladybugs a couple times throughout the season, they love aphids.
The aphid problem when I get it, is bigger then ladybugs can handle. We have some natural predators that will keep stuff from spreading, like ladybugs and wasps, but when the plants aren't thriving, it's only a matter of time before the bugs are back
Add in some string lights on a timer. They need specific light times to bloom well. I have seen other growers have success by using string lights 😊 (Dahlias)
Thanks for the tips!
Love the video. Have you tried keeping seeds from the marigolds to plant next year? I had the coco ones this year and everyone commented on them-they were amazing and held their own with the winds we get.
I don't seed save anything, because I don't want to have to fuss with colour cross contamination. And also, seed shopping sustains me through the long cold winter, lol. But you should give it a try!
@@YouCantEatTheGrass I saved some of the coco ones along with some smaller ones that are a pretty red that I'd never seen before.
I’d like to get some crates like you grew your glads in. What are they called? I’ve been growing my gladiolus in pots, but they rot. I love your videos and all the information you share with us.❤
They are called bulb crates - it's how they ship wholesale bulbs, so they came with my pallet of tulips. I've bought smaller ones at shipping stores or farm suppliers
I have watched and have positively commented occasionally about your videos over the years, but now I have to say that from now on you have to pay tribute to firefighters to every plant harvested to the firefighters to your neighbours surviving .
This time of year I wish I lived in a warmer climate cause I hate everything dying down. Pitiful and sad
Me too 😭😭😭 But then I try and remind myself that the cold winter kills bugs, even if it also kills my will to live, lol
Hello good evening 🌄 I got the same plant in my front yard at kept growing and growing now has babies what should I do
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I’d love to know where you found the information on aster yellows on statice. I’ve searched quite a bit and can’t find a link between the two. Aster yellows generally affects plants in the asteracea family, which limonium is not a member of. My statice had red leaves and stems from the get go and didn’t thrive so I’d like confirmation that this could be aster yellows. Thank you.
There was a conversation going on on Instagram from some other flower farmers. The sustainable flowers podcast is going to be doing an episode on it. I can guarantee that it affects a lot more plants then asters though. I get it like crazy in my rudbeckia and cosmos, and I won't plant echinatia because of it. I never thought about it in the statice before, but others were saying that the same thing on their farm was asters yellow. Obviously, I'm not going to test anything on my farm, so I don't know for sure. But it makes sense
Do you guys harvest the dahlia tubers and store them to regrow next year ? If so please make a video
I'm really bad at it, and usually the tubers aren't super healthy. But I'm going to try to save them this year
Do pussy willows grow well in your area? I know there are cultivars that are black and pink. They’re great in spring bouquets and always a good accent in dried flower arrangements. Or are they just so common that no one would be interested in them? Cattails are a great accent in a bouquet as well. The pencil cattails are especially nice in fall arrangements. However, they like wet conditions which I know you don’t have. Pity you don’t have a little stream running through your property. Looking forward to your Thanksgiving bouquets. I’m guessing you’ve been really really busy this week. Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving (and a profitable one).💕😊🧙
Have you ever tried Bokashi and sprayed buggy plants with the tea watered down.
That's a lot of work, so I don't think we would ever go that far. But we did get a few foliar feeds to our lisianthus and they really appreciated. Things are tough on a farm scale though - it took an hour and 10 gallons just to spray 1 bed. And we have 100 beds total. So the math is tricky
Where did you get the seeds for the coco yellow, etc. Marigolds?
I got them from ball seeds. Johnny's has the gold, but I actually ordered from ball specifically because I hunted for a source with more coco colours. They have some other amazing things too - like pelleted snapdragons
Have you considered medicinal/aromatics bouquets? Not to treat a specific ailment, but to turn it into a delicious tea after the flowers have dried? Yarrow, camomille, echinacea, St John's wort, mint, lavender, rosehip maybe, etc.. Something to derive a second use from...
We use lots of herbs as greenery in the bouquets. But, since I grow a mix of stuff, including some poisonous items (like larkspur) I don't want to encourage anyone to be eating the bouquets
I wonder if that is what os going on with my zinnias?!? I've beek having sn issue this year with my zinnias only lasting about 2 days before turning brown & ugly... i havent seen the brown spotd yet, but my zinnias do get downy mildew & powdery mildew every year. So i wonder if it's in the soil, causing the symptoms, bit jist hasnt affected the foliage yet. Zinnias are like my main focal flower/money maker, & I hadn't gotten sooooo discouraged because I'm like if this is going to be an every year thing- "am I going to be able to have a profitabpe business? "
The more I crunch the numbers, the less profitable zinnias seem. They are just so delicate and fussy. It's nice that they are so simple, but as I figure out more crops, I'm less focused on them being my main focal.
One thing to consider, because I don't see this talked about often, but I've definitely seen a correlation. If you have a water softener - the salt that it adds to the water zaps zinnias (also rudbeckia). Not very many crops react in the same way, but the softened water will kill a zinnia in 2-3 days, and in that black crispy way, similar to the look of downy mildew
Plant 40 crops. 20 will fail, but 20 will succeed. Put your eggs 🥚 in 40 baskets 🧺
Wisdom from Serina ❤
I'm definitely thinking more about planting for cool weather and hot weather at the same time, so 1 can fail and 1 can thrive, but at least there is something with the crazy weather
The last plant that you showed is what I got in the front yard but mine's is growing babies so what should I do
The sedum? It will bunch up, but that's a good thing. Most perennials enjoy being divided after 5 years.
when you show the flowers could you mention how they do dried. or cut in a small picture.
I made a video 2 years ago going over all the things that I dry and what does well, and what is a little more borderline. But I might make another version of it again this winter, since we do some stuff a little differently now
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OMG are you saying I can leave my glads in my raised beds, me being in Ottawa with lots of snow? I usually throw a tarp over my beds to keep animals off, will they come back on their own?
It depends on the glad! There are winter hardy varieties for your zone, but most are not.
I'm going to bring my crates inside my garage so they won't freeze. But, if you did a deep mulch, there is a chance they might make it. Raised beds tend to get colder then the ground though, so that might make them like a zone lower for winter hadiness
Can you tell me where you get your plugs? Thank you
I'm getting lisianthus from ball, and then perennials from van noort
Right?
Beds of buttsaver flowers 😂 I love it!
Right?!
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Is the farm making money yet? Anyone know?
I love fall.
They make a video about this every winter. Let’s wait and see :-). I feel like sales are being good with some hick ups but they do have an employee this year so the calculation considering profit will be more tricky this year.
I think we just hit sales similar to last year, and we are still talking about doing winter greenery at the stand, plus Christmas ornaments, ect. So I'm surprisingly happy with sales - we might even hit 70k!
But, I'm also spending a lot this year - we have 20k going out of the bank this month with peonies and bulbs coming, plus all the other spending, plus employee costs. I'm hopeful it's a positive number, but it might be in the single digits, lol. We will do a breakdown in January
SERENA, Don't forget to collect seeds. Ageratum is super easy to collect.
Understandable that you and the gardens are tired! Rest will be needed for everyone. As far as the sedums...they do not want or need fertilizer and need no or VERY little water. In fact they do better in poor soils with good drainage. Just a tip that I've learned from trial and error.
I have the poor soil and drainage, lol, but I think they got too much water this year. I'm planning of planting 4 whole beds next year, and I'm going to make sure they are on their own irrigation zone, so I can really limit the water
Did you know sedums root easily. Just cut off a stem and stick it in the ground and next year it will grow to be a whole new plant. I cut a bunch of mine off because they flopped too the ground and stuck them in a watering can and within a week they all had roots growing out everywhere. Soo easy!
“My other butt saver” - Serena
Serena are you pregnant why you not telling us
Looks like she is wearing BULKY clothes because its cold to ME!!
Wtf. That's so rude to ask
Lol, nope, just starting into peri menopause, which is totally doing some hormone stuff to my body that is similar. My face totally looks like I did when 3 months pregnant with both my kids, it's kind of weird
Never ask that question. So rude
Will never understand why these two need two individuals to create their videos. One holding the camera and the other doing the talking.I would say 99% of the flower growers on CZcams do just fine with one person creating the videos. Then almost every single week these two complain of not having enough time to create bouquets for the market. Time management please Ian and Serena. Geez.