How I Did At My First Market This Year | Lessons Learned
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2022
- Hi everybody! In this video I'm getting ready for my first farmer's market of the season. I'll share with you how many bouquets I sold and a few good takeaways based on interactions with my customers.
#farmersmarket #sunflowers #flowerfarming #zone6b
sweet peas add a beautiful smell x
For scent, Sweet William is gorgeous. Also, i've grown spray carnations which smell beautiful too. I'm hoping my stock will come good later too - that's my favourite. Great video again Carmen
I’ve not grown stock but I hear it smells amazing.
Great information thank you for giving an honesty idea of selling at the farmers market not every time you sold out. Best of luck
Thank you Lourdes!
You gave some wonderful information !! It's very appreciated...
Next week will be better for you at the market.
Thank you for sharing your experiences
You’re welcome! ☺️
love this vedio great effort keep it up
Some mint as well
I agree about the sunflowers. People where I live don't understand that they will open up and have a longer vase life if you sell them partially closed. So now I sell them fully open. Also if you have a cooler you can store them in it for a long time. I've had them last 2-3 weeks that way but only if they are fully open.
OMG! I’m so glad you said this! I have an extra refrigerator now and I just this week started experimenting with storing the sunflowers. Are you putting them in water or dry storage?
@@freshcutflowerfarm Definitely in water. They come out just as fresh and when they come out they have lasted a week to 10 days in the vase for me
You have made my day! I can’t tell how many I tossed last year because I had no refrigerator to store them in.
@@freshcutflowerfarm I hope it works out for you!
Thanks Laura! What temp do you have the cooler set at? for suns
Great summary of your market sales. People definitely buy by sight and they don’t understand a closed flower will give them a longer vase life🌸 Keep using the feverfew as it is a great filler and once you have it, it self sows again. Wishing you much success in the future🌺 xx Cathi xx 😘
Thank you Cathi!☺️
Very helpful information about your experience at the market! Thank you ma'am!
You’re welcome!☺️
👋 I'm from the STL area!! Excited to watch your videos! ☺️
Thank you!
Thank you for the insights
You’re welcome!
Good Luck with your first Farmers Market.. 🌱
Thank you!
Ugh, customers saying “wildflowers” drives me nuts. ALL the hours we put into these flowers!
Great to see what you take to market.
This time of year, zone 5, delphinium and lupines are my big pops of color. Cornflower and Agrostemma are super easy fall-sown too.
PS - Your bupleurum is amazing!!!
My bupleurum rocketed it! Are you fall planting your delphinium and lupine? I’ve never grown them so I’m curious what your experience is.
I love the wildflower look. I have farm cats and they don’t bother with poisonous plants. I grow lilies and those are also poisonous. Animals have good instincts.
I completely agree with you!
I have a single market table and I set up with buckets on the ground, buckets on the table, and a few arrangements made in short glass vases. People tell me it looks like a European flower shop. I started setting up that way because it seemed like people had a hard time looking down into the paper to see each arrangement in the table buckets. At least this way they can see the arrangements on the ground to catch their eye and then also look into what’s in the table buckets to find their favorite. I produce about 20 bouquets a week.
That’s a great idea! I love the layered look. It just seems so much more interesting.
Sounds like a bummer of a day. You just can't get a break from that wind! I went to my very first farmers market on Saturday. We had 4 vendors! Small town. Two crafters and someone selling baked goods. I didn't have much blooming so I bought a couple of perennials that had blooms on them. I brought 8 mason jar arrangements and I made up 4 wildflower hand tied bouquets. I do understand your point about how people perceive the value of wildflowers. I don't grow ammi either for the same reason. I sold one hand tied and 4 of the jars. For the first day of the season I thought that wasn't bad. I have nothing to compare it to though. I'm hoping it gets better as the season goes on. I also had everything blow over and had water every where. Even worse than that...we set up under a row of trees that are infested with aphids! Even under my tent they were everywhere! I'm hoping the market manager will convince the town to spray the trees. I'm trying to figure out how to keep them off of my flowers. Cellophane bags? Put everything under cake domes? Idk. Anyway...it will get better and every experience is something we learn from. 😄
Oh my goodness! Yeah the city should take care of that for sure. I think sales get better when veggie people start coming.
Hello, just found your channel and subscribed. We are growing flowers this year and appreciate the information.
Thank you so much! I’m in my second season and there is so much to learn.
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Yah, the in-between stage where we're waiting for those big colorful focal flowers is difficult! I like basil, cosmos and gomphrena for fillers!
How’s your vase life with cosmos? Any complaints? I’ve not used it in bouquets because I hear they don’t have good vase life.
I just started selling cut flowers at our farmer’s market this year and had the same problem with the wind! It knocked a couple of my bouquets right into our goat’s milk soap which instantly gelled! Ugh! Also, our markets sound very similar... I appreciated your feedback on feverfew and ammi!
Oh no! Definitely learned that I need to stabilize my buckets!
For scented flowers I love stock they over winter really well to when planted in autumn at least they do where I am in NZ :) I love larkspur i grow it and foxgloves and lillies! which are all poisonous to cats I have a cat and he only eats the nepeta/catmint from my garden they are pretty smart i think they probably know not to eat things they're not ment to but can understand people worrying and not buying bouquets with those things in for that reason
I have never grown stock but I hear amazing things about it. I think you’re right about the animals knowing to stay away from certain plants. Hmm, maybe I should reconsider.🤔
Maybe with the flowers that you have left over you could do a little roadside stand and then at least your time would not have been wasted. Best of luck! My markets here are very small as well so I do one on Sunday morning and one on Thursday afternoon and it helps to get those flowers that weren’t quite ready on the weekend
Hi Sharon! I actually gave the ladies at church the extra bouquets and they loved it!
@@freshcutflowerfarm how thoughtful of you!!!
ad sugar into water and your flowers will open up sooner
I've been kinda worried about the Ammi majus being considered a weed. In the spring and fall around here, the Daucus carota (wild carrot stuff) is literally everywhere along the roadsides and ditches. I picked up some lace flower seeds (didiscus I think). It looks kinda similar but it's pink/lavender/blue so maybe different enough looking.
I use Dara and everyone loves it. Some people love Ammi but I think it may depend on your customer, whether they are rural or city.
I’m having the same problem. No color! Lots of green and yellow. I put one open sunflower and one just lifting in each bouquet. I explained to them how they’ll open.
It’s so frustrating to see all of the greenery and no color! Next I feel like I’m going to have all color and no greenery. 🤷🏼♀️
Sorry to hear it wasn’t a great market day. I’m sure next time will be better! People are funny when it comes to the value of art and hard work… I used to make and sell glass beads but had to stop bringing them to markets because 95% of the customers thought I had bought them at a craft store and was trying to rip people off by selling them at ten times the price. No amount of education helped, most customers still thought I was just making it up because who makes glass beads, right? (eye roll) For my flower and veggie market stand I’m thinking of printing photos from the farm (with me in them!) and decorate with those to show people I really do grow everything myself. 😄
That’s a great idea! True craftsmanship is definitely undervalued in this country.
Do you have any tips for getting your Bupulerum to start from seed?
I direct sowed mine last fall and it was amazing. I haven’t tried starting indoors though.
What was the spacing on your bupleurem?
Hi Debra! I direct seeded pretty heavy and I thinned them to maybe a half inch. I think there were six rows in a 36 inch wide bed.
Many flowers or parts of flowers have some toxicity-it is surprising all the ones that do and people aren’t aware of it.
Where in Missouri? I live in Columbia.
Hi Candi! I’m in Eldridge, about an hour and half south of you!
I think you need to get a better microphone. Even turning my volume up fully i can barely hear you.
You are fine later in video. It seems to be only in the beginning.
Thank you for the feedback! I think part of the problem also lies with how CZcams equalizes audio.
Who eats bouquets???? Every garden is full of poisonous plants.
It’s usually people with cats that will comment on certain flowers. I don’t have cats so I don’t know if cats just eat everything or what. 🤷🏼♀️
@@freshcutflowerfarm We have always had cats and gardens without any problems.
That’s good to know. I think I need to reconsider the larkspur
@@freshcutflowerfarm I certainly wouldn't pander to stupid people.
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