Sarah would you be able to make a video showing how you price your cut flowers or bouquets? Loved seeing all your animals today, keep up the good work!
I put down thick layers of alfalfa hay and put all my soil over it and also put down cardboard first. I love in Texas and this works really well and I have all kinds of obnoxious weeds
Oh my goodnes, you are what I aspire to, though no doubt it's a lot of hard work! I'm in an office job currently but finding that I yearn for being outdoors.
This was so very helpful! It’s always inspiring to see someone else sweating it out through the mud and muck. It makes me appreciate everything so much more. I’ve never considered rolled cardboard for weed suppression, or pittosporum for a bouquet, but you’ve given me a lot of great ideas! I’ve missed seeing your pretty smile and everything you’re up to! 💚💚💚
Thanks Rebecca! The cardboard roll is great. It’s so easy to roll out and I don’t have to patchwork together odd bits of cardboard and take tape off it.
I thoroughly enjoyed joining you for those three days. Thank you for sharing and explaining as you go. You're a pleasure to watch and you make me smile 😀
@@bloomandgray i haven’t been. The programs are amazing and really quite affordable considering. But I’m a home gardener in containers so the modalities aren’t exactly practical for me. But woah the wedding work she does and her podcast is loaded with info!!!
Sarah you are so hard working and industrious 👏👍 absolutely loving watching your videos they are so interesting and informative 👍 can’t wait for the next one 😉👍 ... 🤗❤️👵🏼🐾🐾🤠 xxxx
Great job getting that bed done in the pollytunnel. If I lived near you I'd offer to help. I think you are a very hard worker, what you do very inspiring. Thanks for sharing with us.
Another great video Sarah (new to your channel so been watching your other videos over the winter). I operate on a smaller scale compared to you but love all you ideas (and appreciate the hard work!) . Been pre -sprouting ranunculus today and planning my beds for 2022 season. Will be following your season with interest....roll on spring!
Really enjoy following your videos, I’m starting my own cutting garden this year with the hope of selling flowers locally so your videos are great for inspiration.
Love your weekly vlogs and have missed them!... thanks for bringing us along on your week. Looking forward to all the flowers! I just have a small garden, veggies and flowers. Snowy and frozen here now, but I started some perennial and hardy annual seeds last weekend outdoors with the "winter sowing" method, and also started my onions, leeks, coleus and pansies indoors under lights. Can't wait for spring!! 🌸🌱
I've been busy starting lisianthus, snaps, & a few other somewhat cold hardy things, & potting up my ranunculus because I didn't get my hoophpuse built soon enough to where they could go in the ground & get established before we starting getting really cold temps , & now I'm too afraid to plant them out, so I'm trying to hold them over just a couple more weeks at least, before transplanting, & then I'm working on putting my chicken wire fence back up around one of my smaller cutflower gardens!
Hello! This tulip bulbs planting, crate method, seems GENIOUS! I'm thinking of doing same with some "pre chilled" tulip bulbs. Leaving them outside in crates now. I'm in zone 5b, temp her is between 10F-30F, pretty cold. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all your videos. You are my favorite bouquet maker!
So nice to watch a new video from you, I've been looking forward to that. And so nice that you are always "honest" with your flowerfield and show us the things that "should have been done months ago" -it makes me relax a bit more, and not hitting myself so hard for all the things I should have been done before christmas. Are you not saving the ranunculus gorms from earlier seasons? Hello from Danmark.
Glad you enjoyed it. It’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind when you see everyone posting photos of perfection online! I’m glad it makes you feel better! I do usually save the corms but this year I didn’t because the weeds took over in the tunnel
Hi really enjoying your videos. Is there any chance of popping up a picture in the corner of the plants/flowers as you talk about them. It would be really helpful to see what they look like in bloom. Xx
Your compost is beautiful. Look forward to seeing your garden this summer and what you do with it all. Just thinking about Charles Dowding and how he also grows veg in his tunnel, maybe you could search his videos and see if he doesn't have one showing how he handles the weeds in his.?
It looks great but I’m hoping what’s in it is great too - although I’m not sure. I was just listening to a podcast with Charles dowding in yesterday and a few others. I heard someone talking about a deep mulch system which worked for them so fingers crossed 🤞🏻
@@bloomandgray ...something has to work, you're doing everything you can, that's for sure. That cardboard with no breaks, I mean not like pieces laying together, seems like a really good way to suppress the weeds.
Whey hey ,loved it , where you stood up in the kitchen lol ? The worktops looked high :) I've been building a new polytunnnel for hanging baskets to hang up and grow on and I've took a punt on a laser engraver lol . Keep the Vids coming
@@bloomandgray haha so funny ya looked shortter than me nearly. No I put scaffolding poles in then hoops and bought a polythene sheet from northern tunnels . To cover it . Ive also wrapped an old shed with a poly sheet I'm thinking about making fence panels in there next year :0
You must be the equivalent of a USDA Zone 7b or lower. If you can grow pittosporum, overwinter your dahlias and dig your soil in the month of January. Is this your typical winter for you or is it unseasonably warm?
We are equivalent to zone 9 apparently. It’s a typical winter for us. We don’t get very many hard frosts and usually only one or two days of snow a year.
This is the first video I have come across of yours and subscribed instantly. I’d love to know how you got into this, we’re you already a florist or have you learnt on the job?
Hello! So you mentioned in a previous video that you have had to work on the farm a lot to make some extra money. So whose farm is it? Those Alpacas are gorgeous 😍
It’s my husbands family farm (where we live and also where the flower farm is located) it’s very convenient for me to be able to do a few hours here and there but it does hold me back from flower farming duties! Because of the pandemic I had to take on more farm work and it has had a slightly negative impact on my business. I’m hoping from here onwards things will start to go back to normal and I don’t have to rely on farm work 😊
@@bloomandgray totally understand that. Glad you did have that to fall back on during those hard times. Cheers to a new year and getting you back to what you love!
Do you ever use any filler with your ranuncs? What if so? I'm struggling to figure out what to grow with them that's also cold hardy enough to grow late winter/ early spring
Do you have an issue with a lot of the little legs being broken/barely hanging on? Every company I've purchased from, I've recieved corms that have a lot of skinny legs, that are already wiggly and almost falling off.
When you buy from Italian ranunculus you can select sizes which is good, larger corms obviously do better but as long as too many legs don’t fall off they’re fine, and will produce more once they start growing
Hey I’m not quite sure on the type, it’s not tape it’s a solid drip pipe so is very strong, my local horticultural company came round to look at my fields and recommended which products to use
