Wannabe Flower Farmer? Here's the Best & Easiest Way to Get Started 

THIS is the kind of advice dreamers/beginners/wannabes/noobs need! I don’t have thousands of dollars to invest, nor do I know if there’s a market in my rural area to sustain a larger endeavor. So glad you popped up in my feed. I’ll be perusing your older videos! I’m interested in more info on spacing (from what I’ve gathered flower farmers often plant closer together to encourage longer stems...), pinching, and staking/supporting.

I'm so happy I found your channel. My garden is smallish, as well. My mantra is work with what you have. I've already grown flowers, veggies and herbs but this will be my first season growing for sale. So nervous 😓.

The RU-vid algorithm really got me, this time! I’ve been daydreaming about selling some cut flowers but only have a small yard and I’m growing in zone 4-so different from every other flower farmer I’ve seen on RU-vid! I will be following with great interest!

Glad i found you...my first year planting for cut flower gardens

Thank you for actually tell us what we need

I'm getting close to getting started with growing flowers on out new property. Just starting seeds for my back yard for test....I have small areas....but going to try. Starting with cool flowers...your information is fantastic.

I'm glad I found your site. I want to sell flowers on a small scale as in my backyard garden. Not trying to get rich or anything but since I like to grow flowers I may as well sell some of it. And, I'm planning eventually on not having grass - I don't like to mow and they're just boring.

This is so helpful!! Thank you!

New stubbier here🙌🏼 Loved this, uncomplicated and this is talking directly to me. Great content and can’t wait to read your blog x

It's not that cut and dry... unintentional flower farming pun? Also, great video! Thank you!

Thinking about getting back into flower farming, but my age and health dictate I go micro. You are a great inspiration, and I love how authentic you are 🌺

Well done ! Awesome content, thanks. I'm near Regina and just learning how to germinate the more difficult seeds. Do you know who might sell some bells of ireland seeds ?

Wow your bouquets look spectacular!!!

Thank you for sharing. Very nice. We are a retired couple looking to have a small side business and enjoy gardening.

Flower farmer dreamer here with a Lil start. Great video! Just what I was looking for. Thank you! Any advice on getting past not wanting to cut a beautiful flower from the garden... kinda the same thing as thinning veggies 🤦‍♀️🌻💐🌹

i am first time flower farmer and having trouble finding a fragrant filler and at the end of June in the dead heat.

I am still managing to spend a really large amt of money on seeds, supplies, bulbs, lost a whole bunch of rununculus last spring. I think I watered them too much and rotted them

Thank you so much for sharing about starting to sell cut flowers! It's something I would really like to do, but haven't. You now have me thinking that maybe I can. Thanks so much!

2:59 what kind of Zinnia is that one with the red to orange ombré?? 🥰

Any suggestions for someone to follow in southern Climates? (Louisiana)

I am having trouble. Which link is for the bundle?

Do you have a lot of luck selling bouquets in your fb page? I think it's a great idea.

Excellent advice.

What is that ticking sound?

Do you have seed suppliers?

Love all your videos and learning so much. Do you need to register your backyard hobby farm as a business? When I read up on backyard farming and selling it’s called hobby farmer. I want to start something similar but I don’t want to get in trouble with the law. :-) would love if you make a video on that. Thanks

Thanks. I'm totally following your advice for this year. Last year was my r and d. This year I'm trying farmers market and roadside stand.

I posted you on my facebook page in Regina. You truely inspire me to start my own flower farm. Lark farm near Regina has also been a deep inspiration. I am old now but still want to live the dream on my new 12 acre property. Could you sell me any seeds ?

How can I find your site

Thank you! I’m grateful to have come across your channel🤗

Starting small is wise. Thank you. So many good points! I know what people in my area want by what gets stolen out of the yard. Planning a move.

you are a blessing

I feel like you are reading my mind. Thanks for sharing this video ❤

Great stuff, thanks for sharing. Your garden is beautfiful.

Thank you,great advice!!!!🌷🌷🌷

See how much people love your content !

Glad I found your channel 😍

May I DM you?

I had to watch twice because I was too focused on that gorgeous snake plant 🤣

Hi, How can I contact you.

Thank you, gracia's

What's earnings your garden.

You're pretty far off on this video with several of your points as well as being incorrect in claiming that your model is the "best". 1.) No one has to spend $5,000 on seed, bulbs and plugs. You can choose to sell snap dragons in May instead of tulips. You can have a large garden for Well under $500 in seed if you look around. 2.) Irrigation - If saving rain water is something you want to do, you can irrigate a 1/4 acre garden with rain water assuming you get enough rain. 3.) Florists - There is zero pressure or stress in selling to florists because there is no contract involved. They call and ask if you have something that you need, if you have it, you sell it. If you don't have it, you make a note to consider growing it. You learn incredibly valuable information about what flower varieties and colors do well in your local community when working with a florist. 4.) You talk about making mistakes and how these mistakes are less important when you have a 12x16 foot garden. There's enough good information on RU-vid alone to prevent a gardener from making mistakes. Larger scale flower farmers don't make very many mistakes and always have backups growing for the mistakes that we can't foresee or have any control over, IE: the "oh crap" section of the garden where backups are grown. 5.) Websites are no longer needed, at all... Anyone can create a free Facebook page and sell their flowers or starts purely through that at zero cost. The larger your garden, the more knowledgeable that you've made yourself, the more business you will do. The keys to success in making money as a flower farmer have nothing what so ever to do with starting out on a small scale. The key to success is know exactly what you're doing before you get started. 1.) Be aware that the flower season is divided into 3 sections; Spring, Summer and Fall. K ow which flowers people want in each season and which colors to grow. People don't want burhandy, brown or bright red in the spring. They also don't want tulips in August. Customers like the progression of colors, pastels in spring, bright vibrant colors in summer and earth tones in fall. They also like how each month brings them their favorite flowers, nit the same snap dragons over and over again, they can't wait for thir procut sunflowers and the time of year that sunflowers represent. Knowing this information helps you design your calendar. Helps you plan what seeds to buy, in what colors, when to start seeds, when to succession plant, its the baseline information for your entire business model, regardless of how big or how small your garden is. And tgis is just the very top of the iceburg. There's a ton more for a new gardener to,learn before even considering buying seeds. Spend countless hours on RU-vid. Be very picky on which youtubers you trust. Find at least three people on RU-vid that have established, successful businesses in YOUR growing zone. Avoid learning from anyone that gardens as a "side hustle" if they knewwhat they were doing, they would be doing it full time and making very good money at it.

So have you sold your bouquets at a market or even at a stand outside of your home? How does the Facebook sales go? I live in a small community and I'm not sure exactly how to do that in my town so I have committed to a market a couple Towns over but I would like to get sales in the town where I live as well

great information!! thanks for sharing!