Welcome to our farm! I'm Lauren, a goat farming & organic gardening Arkansas girl. Join my husband, children, and me as we plunge head-first into the world of market gardening!
Expecting detailed planting instructions with starts seems like a lot. I'm happy if a label shows common and botanical name, height/spacing, light requirements, hardiness zones and essential variety information like salad or pickling for cukes, for example. Sometimes I may ask the local garden center lady if she's grown a particular variety/plant herself and if it did well for her, because our area is a bit difficult climate wise. That's something I can't look up on the net. You are very generous with your customers.
I’m about to follow the video to make our greenhouse. Two early questions. I can’t tell from the foundation video if Tim filled the first course of cinder blocks with concrete. And, did he lay them on bare ground or stone before leveling? Would an inch or so of paver sand make leveling that course any easier?
Broken plants time for ducktape mending or tape garden stuff for it works wonders. Or new tomatoes starts maybe. Alot time and care you put into it. I find gardening in my area expect 20 percentage of lost so plant heavy or like flower gardens to weed out the weeds.
You are generous, people are rude and tall plants must be stacked with thin bamboo and florist tape - inexpensive and easy to do and saves hundreds of plants and dollars and time in the long run. Plant discriptions are best typed on individual cards in x large print with the picture - like the one you noted in your video - make that XXL print and pictures due to those with bad eyesight. Glad u enjoyed and learned from your show.
Thank you so much for the info! You’re really kind to people damaging your product. I’d hold up a hand and say “absolutely not.” After selling in New Orleans for two years, I learned to drop the people pleasing when people are being unpleasant. I’m so sorry people were hastily grabbing your plants. That’s so rude. Was there any way to save them after that?
PS… Just subscribe to all your videos thanks for wonderful Contant oh, and I shared your video with the nonprofit founder with whom I am doing the fundraising with!
Excellent video thank you so much. I am on the beginning journey of doing this for a fundraiser and I found your video so very helpful. Thank you. Hope you have a great day.
You should include a payment in gold, it can be digital and physical gold-backs. You just need to decide you're gold prices. Millions of Americans are using gold.
What a waste of time. City slicker garden. Real gardening is real simple. Imagine commercial growers doing that. The price of food would be 10 times what it is now. LOL
Regarding pricing your offerings: something I heard on this same topic (different industry, but same philosophy) is to remember that you ARE NOT your target market! The market YOU are in is the one where you are doing the work yourself; your BUYERS' market is the convenience of someone else starting the work FOR them
Too bad you couldn't have let people know ahead of time you only wanted to be paid in cash. That way you don't have to let the powers that should not be know all the details of a transaction you may have with a customer not to mention the fact that you'd be able to keep all the money and not be charged a fee for every electronic transaction.
Marvel is a yellow with orange stripes tomato. It runs very late so it’s great for July planting. SO for your business it would be great for making new customers and end of summer sales. ALSO lol take the suckers off the plants,those cuttings will flower in Jan - March and be huge in March and April. Keep cuttings in water till they have a great root system. Cheers
You might couldve had a better set up but I think people should be more respectful and calm down when pulling plants out. When i shop for plants, im always slow and careful when pulling my plants out that i want.
Where'd ya go! We miss you so! Seems like it's been forever since you've been gone! Hope all is well and ur just taking a BIG step back from social media
what pots are you using to sell the plant in? Ive been using bootstrap farmer 10x20 trays and they are great but the pots they come with are too heavy duty to sell the plant in. I need to find a cheaper pot that can go with the customer
Love your flower garden! It's nicely laid out and shows your dedication to gardening. Just an FYI, that beetle looks like it may be a striped cucumber beetle, as the flea beetle is no bigger than about 1/32-1/16th of an inch and only leaves pinholes on the plant leaves. I've learned the hard way that by the time you notice the damage it's almost too late to recover from it. So now I religiously use yellow and blue sticky traps to alarm me of any nasty's entering the garden. Cheers!
great job! maybe, don't take the flats back/forth for hardening-off ; put a frost-cloth over top, or two/three layers based on how much you have, and would they survive that without major setbacks? you could try that... good luck! nice garden!
