50 market bouquets/week. How many stems is that + how do I calculate how much growing space I need? 

Jesse, I value your channel immensely. The information you provide, your thought process, your maths, the way you communicate. Thank you! I'm in my first year of trade on my micro flower farm. This is my third grow season. Time to get serious on the math so I can have a profitable business.

This!! I've been looking for a resource giving guidance for the stem count AND price point as I build our little flower farm. You Jessie are it! Thank you for putting it all together in one place. 💐❤

Great video! You could get a lot more plants per bed if you wanted, the way you worked this out is you have 9x12 spacing for your rows, but you could easily do a 9x9 which would give you 5 rows. You can also plant on a triangular pattern instead of square, which will also increase your number of plant number to about hundred more than your original estimate.

Great plan! The only thing I would suggest is going a little closer if you're growing single stem sunflowers. A 9" spacing will let them grow very thick stems, and very large heads,aking it difficult to work into bouquets! I made that mistake my 1st year! 😆 If you pklant them 5-6" inches apart they'll stay perfect size for bouquets & their stems wont be 3/4" in diameter!

Just found your channel. Not only is your voice easy to listen to, the information you provide is so helpful. Good luck on your new property!

I love the way you broke this down and worked it all out - you're the first one I've seen do this for cut flowers on RU-vid. Thank you! Okay... totally nerding out here: I was wondering... aren't you cheating yourself out of a full row of flowers by saying that in a 4' bed you only have 4 rows? By my math, at 9x9 spacing in a 48" wide bed, you actually have 5 rows with 3" leftover... is that right or am I missing something? That would give you 284 plants per bed (5*53), 71 extra plants. In fact... if you decreased your spacing to 8x8 you could get 6 rows and an extra 7 plants per row, which works out to another 76 plants per bed. That could make a big difference with limited space / compost. I've heard that even with Pro-Cuts, going with a smaller spacing, something like 6x6 yields blooms more suitable for a bouquet - not quite as big as they get with a bigger spacing. I look forward to cheering you on this Summer as you make profit in your first year. 😊

Excellent video. Also consider doubling up on space. What do I mean by that? As I mentioned before I grow three bulbs in one gallon pots to sell in the spring and dinnerplate dahlias to grow in the last summer/early fall. They grow in the same space. As the tulip and daf pots are pulled and sold right before I plant the dahlias, I have then in the same space, in the same planting grid. As each pot gets pulled up to sell, it leaves a hole for the dahlia tuber to go in. In my small city lot this is an invaluable way to double the amount of space I have in my front garden. Also, I plant sweet peas behind both against a fence. Sweet peas take up very little room and are blooming profusely when the dahlias are small. Surprisingly the shade the full grown dahlias provide the feet of the sweet peas means the sweet peas bloom all summer long, even when it gets hot. This year I will be expanding on this thought process by planting a long, thin row of procut sunflowers at 5" spacing, about 4 plants wide and 20ft long. Below I will plant cosmos for air, they will do fine in the shade, just not bloom as well, as well as lots of Astilbe for spikes. I am doing five beds that are 4x8 in a more traditional bulk flower planting that will lean heavily on spring/early summer as the dahlias are my bread and butter later on, at which point the cosmos should start to flower more as the sunflowers will be no more.

Awwww man!! I didnt know there would be math! I just like the pretty flowers. (Cue whine emoji) This was great! I have not put such exact numbers to things mostly because when I arrange I dont like be limited, but I also dont intend to grow and sell. I intend to grow and give. This was a great way to figure out my space (and bucket) needs thought. I've subscribed!!

Great information. Really helped me plan out my beds.

This was an incredibly well thought out video and really helpful. I'm not a flower farmer, but hearing your plan for creating the bouquets helps put into perspective how many of the different types of flowers should be planted. We'll be making a lot (for us) of bouquets this year, and your recipe and planning have got me re-thinking some things!

Wonderful video!! Thank you so much!

This was great. As someone who struggles to plan. I never thought there would be math😆 But You really broken it down! Also thank you for adding in us small spacers. I have 5 beds that are 4×10. This really helped. I also hadn't "planned" buckets!?!😳 great info!!

Great video! Putting real numbers to each bouquet is so helpful. Just growing for myself in my small yard and knowing how many of each bloom to plan for is gonna be a big help. Hope to see lots of videos of your process and progress. Subscribed. 🙂

Brilliant video, 👏 pricing is one of my biggest challenges and knowing just how much to grow in terms of each plant variety . Your videos have been helpful thank you 😊

I'm binging all of our videos, I love the numbers talk. What zone are you in?

Just found your channel today. Thanks for this breakdown and the first year cost breakdown I watched before this. I'm a spreadsheet nerd, so these have been right up my alley. Also, I saw your reMarkable at the start of the video and got really excited. I loooove mine 😂.

Hi jessie! This video is so awesome. I realize it is older, I really wish you would do a new video reviewing this one and let us know what worked, what didn't etc.

You have really thought this through! Great video🤩 Make friends with grocery store florists etc. I’m getting all my buckets for free😀 And that’s more sustainable.

Great video. If your farmer's market is every other weekend what will you do with the flowers that you have to cut in between? Most of those cut and come again plants need to be cut weekly and some even twice a week to encourage them to keep producing. If you have access to a cooler you may be able to hold some of them for a few days.

Thank you for this Jessie! Best of luck on your plans this season! I’ve subscribed to your channel and will watch with interest.

I just found your channel and subbed! I'm going to sell 3 for $5 Sunflowers because they are $1.78 a piece online. What do you think? FYI- I think that Sunflowers would do much better if they are pro-cut, 6 inch spaced apart. The heads are bouquet worthy and the stems are not as thick. Pinching branching Sunflowers,and 9x9in apart, will give you 4 good sized stems. If, you used more it would take lots of space away. Procut are easy to calculate for me,Lolz! I had to dive deeper due to space restrictions in the 1st year. Secondly, Snapdragons can be placed 4 inches apart. To maximize the bed space. I thought about using 9X9 spacing but after seeing how many plants I have already I really want to get it correct being a 1st time Flower/Florist. Amaranth wants 12 inch spaced, but 9x9 would work for a cut flower biz Farmer/Florist. I am moving February 1st to 1.6 acre Homestead. I understand completely. Thanks for sharing this video on pricing, I haven't found any channels for the topic. I just learned about garden layout. How to calculate spacing, from NorthLawn Flower farm RU-vid channel. Good luck, Love the Creator and Walk in Beauty AHAVA

Thank you! Good stuff! 💐

Absolutely helpful! Does the math change much if you do staggered planting?

You've got 1) plants per bed and 2) number of stems needed, but how do you translate between these two figures?

Have you grown all these flowers before?

Hi Jessie! Where are you growing?

Wouldn't disks be like Ammi or Dara?

That book is 150.00 on Amazon that’s steep I’d rather google and RU-vid the answers it’s horrible pricing