My 2023 Grow List and Succession Planting Schedule 🌻🌸
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Hello everyone! I'm sharing with you all of the flowers that I will be growing in 2023. I've also included my succession planting schedule as well!
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Thanks for the information. I'm in SE Ohio, zone 6A and have been growing and selling at our farmer's market for 8 years. Two tips that I have to share: One planting of mahogany hibiscus keeps producing until frost. Do the 'shake test' to determine if it is ready to be harvested and give it plenty of time to hydrate. And, to keep the Dara from wilting, harvest when it is cool and pick blooms when they are shaped like an umbrella, not a bowl--more mature will hold up. Also give them plenty of time to hydrate. This tip saved me from nixing this beautiful and unique flower!
Thank you Marcia! Love this advice! Dara may be one of those that I have to add to my 4:30 am before work harvest list.
@@freshcutflowerfarm Good luck! I will enjoy following you and seeing how your season goes.
Hello! I have found that in south central Missouri, I only need one larger succession of mahogany splendor Hibiscus. The first year I grew it, I did two successions. It takes so long to mature, last year I just did a bigger first succession and that worked great! It is frost tender, but I harvest everything I can before the first frost (mid October in 2022) and it lasts in buckets in my basement for a month. The vase life is greatly extended the more mature the plant is. I love it for fall bouquets. I also had trouble with Dara when I took it to the farmers market. Halfway through the market it would get droopy, (from harvesting early morning the day before). Some that I won't grow again, at least for my main cutting crops... Orach/Atriplex, Borage, Calendula, Carnation, Clarkia, Gypsophilia, Migonette, Trachelium, and Sweet pea. Some I will grow, but hesitant to are Dusty Miller (so short), Dara because is seems to shatter and is invasive, and Stock. I also don't get a lot of production from my Strawflower, but it's so fun, so I will probably keep growing it. Thanks for your video! I love hearing what other flower farmers are growing. Also, last year I made a spreadsheet similar to yours, and it was amazing for keeping on top of my successions!!!
You’re the second person that mentioned what a prolific bloomer the mahogany hibiscus is so I’m convinced to do only one succession. I decided not to do dusty miller either so I planted some extra plants in my landscape last year . It came back this year and is taller. I’m just leaving it to see what happens year 3.
This was so informative and helpful. Thank you! I agree with you on rudbeckia. I love it in the landscape, but I am not impressed with it in bouquets.
Thank you! It has too much of a wildflower look for my taste.
I agree on the mahogany splendor. I grew 5 plants and I cut and I cut and I cut there was just so much…too much lol! I love that you are scaling back to 10 flowers. This should be a reality check for a lot of home growers to show you can still have a business without spending 20k and getting everything that all the big farmers are getting! Love it!!! You grow girl!!!!
Thank you Christina!
You touched on something that I dont think is talked about enough- growing things based on who your customer is! If your primarily selling at a farmers market, & it doesnt start until june- dont invest in a bunch of spring bulbs & hardy annuals...
Where did you get your lemon basil seeds? Because I grow lots of different basils- lemon, Thai, Cinnamon, etc. & the lemon is always the tallest for me! It usually gets over 2 feet... but once I grew it in between my tomatoes, & it well was over 3 feet tall!
The Mahogany Splendor is huge! I usually grow 2 plants per year & still have 2 huge "shrubs" even with chitting a lot! 😄
What you grow definitely depends on your customer! I purchased my lemon basil from Geo seed.
What is “chitting”?
I grew a number of the parfait series of celosia. They were six feet tall with spikes coming out like the old aluminum silver Christmas trees. I harvesting almost the whole plant at the same time as the plant put all its effort into height and flowers came much later. I would guess thirty stems from each plant all at one time.
Oh my goodness! Great information!
@@freshcutflowerfarm thanks so much for your succession plan. I am still trying to understand all those moving parts!
With mahg. splendor, I stripped most leaves off when harvesting leaving only the top 6-8 leaves. (plenty for market bouquets) They were conditioned in deep water. I did get some bug pressure so cutting regularly gives you branching of new fresh leaves. They were ready for fall bouquets in zone 6. (West VIrginia) Pinching is a good thing with these! Thornless raspberries give a similar green foliage that acts the same way. Just give it room to spread.
I’ve gotten so many great tips from everyone about the mahogany splendor. Thank you!
Hello!!! I love your videos and also in Missouri but 5b. I'm not computer savvy.... Can you give more info on the program you used for that spreadsheet? Maybe a video!!! Thank You ❤️
Happy Growing!
Hi Laura! Thank you so much! I used the numbers app on my Mac laptop. If you use a computer that has Microsoft Windows, you can use the excel app.
This is exactly what I have been struggling with: how to show successions on a spreadsheet!!! Just perfect, Thank You!
You’re welcome!
Hello, Glad to see you again. I hope your back is feeling rested. Good luck this year and I hope you do well.
Thank you!
This video is so helpful to me! Thank you so much! I love the layout, so I'm going to recreate this! Really appreciate it, as a novice flower farmer in MO 6b 💚
Thank you Nikki! So glad it was helpful!
I'M so glad I found your channel, I'm in MO also I've pretty much decided that cool flowers need to go too. I'm cutting down my flower list also.I wasted so much much space on flowers that we're so so. Mahogany splendor was beautiful but had way too much and the Japanese Beatles were attracted to it more than anything but it recovered. I would love to see how you set up your market flower bar and pricing.
Thanks so much.
Hi Kim! Thank you so much! I hate Japanese beetles. I’m learning so much about the mahogany splendor from you all. Love it!
I don’t care for Rudbeckia either, but I don’t mind the new varieties with the green centers.🤷♀️
It seems like I always have a lot of bug damage with rudbeckia.
I'm trying Prairie Sun this year.
I can't imagine scaling back anything. I sell everything. I planted 100 Mahoney spender hibiscus and that doesn't seem enough. I sell at several farmers markets and sell out. I grow on 16 100 ft rows with expansion plans. I am on full rotation and succession planting. All that spreadsheet and computer work spent seems like time I need to plant. Keep simple books and notes and spend the time planting and selling. 🤷
You’re a beast! You go girl! I’ve just had to realize that with my work schedule and family, I needed to focus in on efficiency and bang for my buck.
Hello! With 3 successions of zinnas, about how many plants per variety are you doing,
I will probably do about 40 of each. There’s always some that won’t germinate.
Great info! I will also try to limit the types of flowers - I've learned which ones just don't perform for me or I don't really like them. I grew Mahogany Splendor Hibiscus last summer - it grew into a huge bush - 1 or 2 are enough! I loved it for fall foliage.
I have limited space - so are you pulling out flowers as you're planting new ones? Leave some area empty? how do you do that?
That’s good to know about the hibiscus! I usually plant out as much as I can and then pull out the stragglers as new ones are ready to plant.