I'm so happy to have found you. I started flower farming last year, and all I was seeing from other more established flower farmers were things I didn't necessarily want to do... but your commitment to regeneration, cutting down on one-use stuff, feeding your native species, etc etc. (working *with* nature) has been the most incredible influence for me. Watching your approach has been an amazing guiding force in how I want to build my farm. So, thank you. Thank you for sharing so much!
I've watched many CZcams channels that feature gardens established from potted plants purchased from commercial nurseries. Hundreds of plants are removed from plastic pots. Also bagged fertilizers are placed into the planting holes. A lot of trash is generated in order to achieve a beautiful garden design. I admire your dedication to conservation.
Thank you so much. We have put a lot of work into that and I’m still trying to do better (I would love to get rid of the plastic on the tunnels) but always trying to improve. ❤️❤️
@@Blossomandbranch A gardener or farmer must act in environmental responsible ways and I admire the way you are researching products all the time. I have a small home garden and flower beds, and your videos motivated a transition from trays to soil blocks.🥰💋👍
I planted about 30 and 3 weeks later I have 16 I could plant out. I am having a lot of mold? On the top of the soil and I honesty don’t know what it is I’m just knowing it’s not good and getting that thrown out as soon as I see it before everything has it. I love your honesty and your ethic. I wish more people felt the same way. Love your videos!
Ranunculus loves to be almost dry. I had forgotten to dig them up out of one of my beds and they had multiplied and were loving it outside (Ohio formerly 6a), but starting them inside I actually had less success and very easily rotted. This is my 4th year doing ranunculus, so I may put a bunch in well draining soil and leave them alone - might get my best results.
Thank you for taking us with you to share in your transplanting with loads of hands on tips and instruction. Sharing your challenges and experiences, including hardships and difficulties actually increases my resolve to keep on trying. Your transparency and candor produce a kind of kindred closeness I can relate to like a sincere and honest gardening friend. 💕
@@Blossomandbranch ❤️ I’m thankful and grateful to be participating in your beautiful farm and garden experiences. I’m totally on board following you. Teacher, mentor, friend!
First year flower farming in central North Carolina! Using this year to get my bearing on planting dates and such but watching you is so helpful! Thanks for sharing your transparency and expertise with us!
Where is a good place for the hoops. I’m just a home gardener and am soil blocking because of your videos. I’m 75 and still get excited about new methods and eager to give it a go. You are so inspiring.
@@Blossomandbranch I love seeing planting/working in the garden videos. It is so helpful for me to see what things look like when they are going in the ground
Hello, from Northern Colorado! I got a greenhouse two years ago and quickly realized that it provides the same extreme conditions inside as outside. I used it last spring for extra light, carrying trays in and out everyday, but I had no idea that it would be possible to control the climate enough to start seeds. Colorado is just such a wild place to grow. I'm so happy to have found you! You are truly inspiring and have so many helpful ideas. Thank you for posting all of this information. I always look forward to your videos.
Thanks for another great video. I love the honesty you share. I've already been planning for next year, as my stock & snaps were started a bit late this year. I am amazed by how much you get into your greenhouse! I hope to make it down to buy some lisis from you, and will definitely make time for a farm tour day.
I’m with you on growing my own plugs, for all the reasons you listed plus the shipping cost. You can get more lights , heating mats etc with the money you save and know your plants are chemical free
Absolutely!! pesticides, cost and styrofoam!! That’s what started us down this route. Then we found the seedlings did better and were more resistant to pests, win win!
Love the tool your using to plant the ranunculus. Bought a new dibber that I’m not sure I’ll be fond of. I’m also chomping at the bit to get my stock in the ground. After all the nice weather everything is hardened off, but now March is throwing us low to mid 20°s for the week. Not sure my double layer of frost fabric will be enough…so I’m in the holding zone. Thoroughly admire your self sufficiency and bravery. Lol, I’m even teetering on planting out my lettuce starts…seeming to be more chicken than ever and not sure how it’s come to this. 😅 Squish time! I’m wanting All the cool stuff out. If I go by last years frost free date, I’m already 6wks away and should be feeling quite confident.
I’m glad I found your channel. Had been a fan of Garden Answer for years and I started to become put off by their “influencer” ways. Planting non natives for their area and the amount of plastic they use. Basically gardening in a way that’s not sustainable or feasible. It’s important to me to be a better all around gardener.
I started lisis super late. Not trying to get flowers just trying to see if I can get them to transplant stage. So far so good lol. Definitely going all in with soil blocking for this type.
Getting the experience under your belt is so key! Once you feel more confident it’s much easier. Lisianthus can smell fear. Plant them out anyway, they may surprise you!!!
This is so helpful!! I really appreciate all the details you share in these videos. I am curious how you transplant the germinated seedlings from the paper towels to the soil blocks after cold stratifying!
I also just found you here on youtube and watched a lot of your videos,which are great! I looked through your videos and I was sad to not find any about actually harvesting flowers and arranging them . Maybe you could do some this year? Just take us along, you dont even have to talk. Many greetings from northern Germany.
What variety of viola's are you growing? I really like the ones that are fragrant, and most of them aren't😏 It's good to know that I can harden off some of these seedlings that I have growing already, even though it's still cold here in VA...👍 Thanks😁
My biggest complaint with our current agriculture (and anything produced nowadays) is we have detached ourselves from nature and any of the production. We are only concerned with how the end result makes us feel. That end result must be perfect and how we get there is irrelevant. We don't pay attention to who we step on or what we destroy along the way. Small, local, business brings us back to the process and respect of what it takes to provide for our needs.
I love your content @regenerative gardenings! Thank you for putting your knowledge out there! I am a total newbie, and I am wondering what tool you are using when planting your ranunculi?
Great video. I would love to know what sunscreen you use. I have been searching for one that I love for many seasons. Thank you so much for putting it all out there! You are a talented and brave soul!
Another amazing video! I love the step by step instructions you give. It may be a small detail to you, but I learn so much from everything you say. I want to try Orlaya this year but we are redoing our garden beds which will not allow me to plant them prior to last frost. Will it be ok to plant at last frost? Thank you again for inspiring me with my own garden! ❤
Loving your channel! Thank you for giving me the confidence to start SO MANY seeds myself this year. Question, what brand overalls are you wearing? I’ve been trying to decide which to buy for myself so I stop ruining decent clothes!
Is anyone else having trouble hearing her? Her mic seems to be picking up higher tones but lower ones rumble...very difficult to listen to, but what I did hear was great
I’m trying to get better with flowers. I grow tons of veggies. I’m on the gulf coast so snap dragons and other cold loving flowers bloom all winter for us. I’ve been buying the plants but I’m trying to figure out the timing for seed starting.
Does it ever get really cold at night there? Sometimes this time of year it can get really low at night and I'm scared to put my seedlings out in the greenhouse overnight- wondering if you heat your greenhouse to prevent this or if they can handle it?
Hi. I am growing ranunculus for the first time in Denver. The soil has a high moisture content in spring and the corms are coming up. What watering would you recommend? I guess less is more, maybe once a week? Thanks
She's got some previous videos with her soil blocking mix recipes, and I think she got her trays from a restaurant that going out of business (if I'm remembering correctly)... but Epic Gardening has some trays like them, both small and large.
I'm trying to find something local to make my soil blocks. The dirt craft soil is only shipped via palleted freight! Where did you get your small bag? I'm in Ohio trying to source locally.
For some reason my stock is perennial, and blooms through the summer in zone 10b. Idk how or why it’s happening. I keep finding more random stock blooming in our dahlia patch. It’s 95 and Oct 12th. I do not get it 😂
I really want to start growing from seed but have struggled with leggy seedlings. Ugh! Can you share what lights you use? I’m pretty sure I’ve got the wrong ones
@@Blossomandbranch do you recommend putting seeds directly under lights after sowing or just after they germinate? And thank you I’ll try that!! I ordered some more powerful LED lights bc mine are already super close to the lights.
@@Blossomandbranch i have nettle! sleeping currently but i have had plans to use it so this is the year. we forage it madly for infusions and soups so i have to be disciplined to leave some. 😅
We grow layers and let them live their lives out on the farm. :) we also don’t eat our sheep, they are grazers that help us regenerate the soil and will never be food. ❤
I'm so happy to have found you. I started flower farming last year, and all I was seeing from other more established flower farmers were things I didn't necessarily want to do... but your commitment to regeneration, cutting down on one-use stuff, feeding your native species, etc etc. (working *with* nature) has been the most incredible influence for me. Watching your approach has been an amazing guiding force in how I want to build my farm. So, thank you. Thank you for sharing so much!
I've watched many CZcams channels that feature gardens established from potted plants purchased from commercial nurseries. Hundreds of plants are removed from plastic pots. Also bagged fertilizers are placed into the planting holes. A lot of trash is generated in order to achieve a beautiful garden design. I admire your dedication to conservation.
Thank you so much. We have put a lot of work into that and I’m still trying to do better (I would love to get rid of the plastic on the tunnels) but always trying to improve. ❤️❤️
@@Blossomandbranch A gardener or farmer must act in environmental responsible ways and I admire the way you are researching products all the time. I have a small home garden and flower beds, and your videos motivated a transition from trays to soil blocks.🥰💋👍
"if you look at a ranunculus wrong it rots" never truer words spoken
Haha you’ve been there!!!
I planted about 30 and 3 weeks later I have 16 I could plant out. I am having a lot of mold? On the top of the soil and I honesty don’t know what it is I’m just knowing it’s not good and getting that thrown out as soon as I see it before everything has it. I love your honesty and your ethic. I wish more people felt the same way. Love your videos!
Ranunculus loves to be almost dry. I had forgotten to dig them up out of one of my beds and they had multiplied and were loving it outside (Ohio formerly 6a), but starting them inside I actually had less success and very easily rotted.
This is my 4th year doing ranunculus, so I may put a bunch in well draining soil and leave them alone - might get my best results.
I just like this girl she teaches very well step by step. 👏
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for taking us with you to share in your transplanting with loads of hands on tips and instruction. Sharing your challenges and experiences, including hardships and difficulties actually increases my resolve to keep on trying. Your transparency and candor produce a kind of kindred closeness I can relate to like a sincere and honest gardening friend. 💕
That’s what I am trying to create-a community of friends, not an audience. Thanks for being here ❤️
@@Blossomandbranch ❤️ I’m thankful and grateful to be participating in your beautiful farm and garden experiences. I’m totally on board following you. Teacher, mentor, friend!
I would love to see more videos on your sheep!
First year flower farming in central North Carolina! Using this year to get my bearing on planting dates and such but watching you is so helpful! Thanks for sharing your transparency and expertise with us!
I’m sure all your hard work will be rewarded. Stay positive!
Where is a good place for the hoops. I’m just a home gardener and am soil blocking because of your videos. I’m 75 and still get excited about new methods and eager to give it a go. You are so inspiring.
Also, I just loved watching you work on the farm. You have so much expertise. Thank you for sharing it with us
Thank you so much!! I always wonder if I’m boring people so i appreciate the feedback ❤️❤️
@@Blossomandbranch I love seeing planting/working in the garden videos. It is so helpful for me to see what things look like when they are going in the ground
Hello, from Northern Colorado! I got a greenhouse two years ago and quickly realized that it provides the same extreme conditions inside as outside. I used it last spring for extra light, carrying trays in and out everyday, but I had no idea that it would be possible to control the climate enough to start seeds. Colorado is just such a wild place to grow. I'm so happy to have found you! You are truly inspiring and have so many helpful ideas. Thank you for posting all of this information. I always look forward to your videos.
Try insulating your north wall, that will help! We purposefully kept the structure small for this reason ❤️
Our last frost is mid may, but we are heading into -15 degree windchills, which is crazy for late march. Thanks for the video!
Brrr!! Poor trees!
Thanks for another great video. I love the honesty you share. I've already been planning for next year, as my stock & snaps were started a bit late this year. I am amazed by how much you get into your greenhouse! I hope to make it down to buy some lisis from you, and will definitely make time for a farm tour day.
I hope you can make it down sometime too!! So close to blooms now!!
I really looooooove your videos so so much! Thank you for making my day by including the footage of the baby chicks 🤩!
Thank you so much!
I’m really proud of you. Very admirable thing you are doing.
::cries:: ❤️🥰
I start everything from seed. If it grows great, if not oh well. God bless
Great attitude ❤️
I’m with you on growing my own plugs, for all the reasons you listed plus the shipping cost. You can get more lights , heating mats etc with the money you save and know your plants are chemical free
Absolutely!! pesticides, cost and styrofoam!! That’s what started us down this route. Then we found the seedlings did better and were more resistant to pests, win win!
The best Ranunculus is a living ranunculus😄
Failer is great.. humbles us.. not learning from it stinks.
I'm in Nebraska, South Dakota cold can't wait for warmer weather 😊
Love the tool your using to plant the ranunculus. Bought a new dibber that I’m not sure I’ll be fond of.
I’m also chomping at the bit to get my stock in the ground. After all the nice weather everything is hardened off, but now March is throwing us low to mid 20°s for the week. Not sure my double layer of frost fabric will be enough…so I’m in the holding zone.
Thoroughly admire your self sufficiency and bravery.
Lol, I’m even teetering on planting out my lettuce starts…seeming to be more chicken than ever and not sure how it’s come to this. 😅
Squish time! I’m wanting All the cool stuff out. If I go by last years frost free date, I’m already 6wks away and should be feeling quite confident.
I’m glad I found your channel. Had been a fan of Garden Answer for years and I started to become put off by their “influencer” ways. Planting non natives for their area and the amount of plastic they use. Basically gardening in a way that’s not sustainable or feasible. It’s important to me to be a better all around gardener.
I started lisis super late. Not trying to get flowers just trying to see if I can get them to transplant stage. So far so good lol. Definitely going all in with soil blocking for this type.
Getting the experience under your belt is so key! Once you feel more confident it’s much easier. Lisianthus can smell fear. Plant them out anyway, they may surprise you!!!
So inspired!! Next year following your lead going to soil blocking!! Just got all the “ingredients” in that you recommended. Love your content.
You got this!
This is so helpful!! I really appreciate all the details you share in these videos. I am curious how you transplant the germinated seedlings from the paper towels to the soil blocks after cold stratifying!
Too much work overwhelmed can you just come and do my plants thanks lol I have learnt lots though through your site, you are doing a good job
you're amazing!
I would loooove to hear more about how you are caring for your sheep, as I'm considering getting some to get some wool (and company ❤)
I also just found you here on youtube and watched a lot of your videos,which are great! I looked through your videos and I was sad to not find any about actually harvesting flowers and arranging them . Maybe you could do some this year? Just take us along, you dont even have to talk. Many greetings from northern Germany.
Absolutely!! I am planning on it this year, thanks for the feedback! ❤️🥰🥰 anything in particular you’d like to see? Just centerpieces?
@@Blossomandbranch yay, looking forward to that. Hand-tied bouquets or posies or centerpieces - anything really. 👍🏻
What variety of viola's are you growing? I really like the ones that are fragrant, and most of them aren't😏
It's good to know that I can harden off some of these seedlings that I have growing already, even though it's still cold here in VA...👍 Thanks😁
My biggest complaint with our current agriculture (and anything produced nowadays) is we have detached ourselves from nature and any of the production. We are only concerned with how the end result makes us feel. That end result must be perfect and how we get there is irrelevant. We don't pay attention to who we step on or what we destroy along the way.
Small, local, business brings us back to the process and respect of what it takes to provide for our needs.
Where do you get your soil block trays?
I love your content @regenerative gardenings! Thank you for putting your knowledge out there! I am a total newbie, and I am wondering what tool you are using when planting your ranunculi?
Great video. I would love to know what sunscreen you use. I have been searching for one that I love for many seasons. Thank you so much for putting it all out there! You are a talented and brave soul!
I use mad hippie for face/neck and whatever mineral one I can find for body that’s on sale, usually a baby one 😂
Badger has a great non toxic one, just beeswax & olive oil (organic) with zinc I think. It’s the most basic I can find!
Another amazing video! I love the step by step instructions you give. It may be a small detail to you, but I learn so much from everything you say. I want to try Orlaya this year but we are redoing our garden beds which will not allow me to plant them prior to last frost. Will it be ok to plant at last frost?
Thank you again for inspiring me with my own garden! ❤
nice👍👌🏻
Loving your channel! Thank you for giving me the confidence to start SO MANY seeds myself this year. Question, what brand overalls are you wearing? I’ve been trying to decide which to buy for myself so I stop ruining decent clothes!
Where do you get the long narrow yellow trays for the soil blocks? Looks like a good size.
Is anyone else having trouble hearing her? Her mic seems to be picking up higher tones but lower ones rumble...very difficult to listen to, but what I did hear was great
Please kindly share where you got the greenhouse.
It's just so hard to imagine putting things out 6 weeks before last frost! I'm a little scared of the idea
Totally understand!! It’s taken time to learn that these things are used to it but we always have a backup plan just in case! 🥰
Hello from Ukraine. I love growing veggies, berries. Flowers is not my love as I cannot eat them 😂
I’m trying to get better with flowers. I grow tons of veggies. I’m on the gulf coast so snap dragons and other cold loving flowers bloom all winter for us. I’ve been buying the plants but I’m trying to figure out the timing for seed starting.
Does it ever get really cold at night there? Sometimes this time of year it can get really low at night and I'm scared to put my seedlings out in the greenhouse overnight- wondering if you heat your greenhouse to prevent this or if they can handle it?
Yes, we have heaters and temp sensors, check out our greenhouse video for the details! ❤
Hi. I am growing ranunculus for the first time in Denver. The soil has a high moisture content in spring and the corms are coming up. What watering would you recommend? I guess less is more, maybe once a week? Thanks
Hi, do you have a preferred soil blocking mix? Also where do you purchase the soil blocking trays? Do you stack your trays?🌱
She's got some previous videos with her soil blocking mix recipes, and I think she got her trays from a restaurant that going out of business (if I'm remembering correctly)... but Epic Gardening has some trays like them, both small and large.
What is that tool you use to dig the holes?
I'm trying to find something local to make my soil blocks. The dirt craft soil is only shipped via palleted freight! Where did you get your small bag? I'm in Ohio trying to source locally.
Where did you get your trays from?
For some reason my stock is perennial, and blooms through the summer in zone 10b. Idk how or why it’s happening. I keep finding more random stock blooming in our dahlia patch. It’s 95 and Oct 12th. I do not get it 😂
Do you heat your greenhouse?
Bree, when did you sow the onions and snap dragons?
Usually around early feb!
I really want to start growing from seed but have struggled with leggy seedlings. Ugh! Can you share what lights you use? I’m pretty sure I’ve got the wrong ones
Try moving the lights much closer to the tops of seedlings!!
@@Blossomandbranch do you recommend putting seeds directly under lights after sowing or just after they germinate? And thank you I’ll try that!! I ordered some more powerful LED lights bc mine are already super close to the lights.
Where in Colorado are you? What is your last frost date?
We are near Denver, our last frost is usually mid May :)
brie may i ask, what do you fertilize your ranuncs with? i understand they need calcium?
We have plenty of calcium in our soil so I don’t add any! If I feel they need a boost I use the nettle fertilizer. ❤️
@@Blossomandbranch i have nettle! sleeping currently but i have had plans to use it so this is the year. we forage it madly for infusions and soups so i have to be disciplined to leave some. 😅
I stopped with ranunculus they are too fusy and not worth the effort
Fussy is right!! Divas! I have a few customers who adore them so I keep trying, thankfully these saved corms came through!!
Don't name your food. I grew up with this truth. It will not fail you.
We grow layers and let them live their lives out on the farm. :) we also don’t eat our sheep, they are grazers that help us regenerate the soil and will never be food. ❤