If you're growing yarrow for the first time (like me), you'll want to pay special attention how when you harvest and post harvest conditioning. In this video, I talk about all that and more!
I swear you read my mind sometimes! Just when I’m thinking, “I wish I knew…” Bam. You post a video about it! I’m in my second year, so still learning lots myself. Super thankful for your channel!
Admire you lots, continuing to flower farm and have a newborn too. I enjoy your content and breakdown. Your analysis is right as usual. Yarrow is a workhorse perennial every cut flower garden needs. Great to see you’re selling to event organizers and getting paid more per stem. It’s not easy pricing market bouquets there’s so many factors to consider! You do need to know your market. I live in a small town rural area where nearly every farmer grows flowers on their property. Selling bouquets more than $20 isn’t going to sell at my farmers market or my roadside stand
Thank you :). And I totally understand how there's a price cap. I think your area probably can support a +$20 bouquet but NOT at a farmers market or roadside stand. There's always people with money but those people aren't necessarily looking for flowers at these venues if you get what I mean!
Planted one plant in a corner of a very sunny bed, with rain and not much else, desperate to see if I could get something to fill in the space. Lo and behold, the following year, back it came and doubled in size. Think it was Moonlight. I bought a few more at Lowe’s I think, and put them in as a filler too. Same experience. It thrived, no help from me, and the rabbits and deer didn’t touch it. This year I invested in 8 small pots and three one gallon yarrow, I have removed problem perennials, like lilies, and replaced them with yarrow. Almost foolproof to me, especially regarding water. This is one great plant.
Yes!! Yarrow is fantastic- resilient with too much water, not enough water, etc. The rabbits will eat younger yarrow but not to the point where they get killed. Yarrow seed is also easy to start and it will always have a place in my grow area, especially since it attracts alot of beneficial insects too!
Yellow might not sell to florists but the market is crazy for that pop of color especially when you have purple larkspur, bright pink ranunculus, purple bells. I have hundreds of the pastels but now I am trying to shift to the yellow seeing how well it does.
This is a super good point and totally highlights that different selling venues have different color palettes. I actually planned my spring around selling retail so alot of my stuff doesn't do as well with florists... except for the yarrow!
This is great! Like the boarding school but 😂. I have a bunch of white yarrow perennialised and am now starting lots of the fanciers for next year. Summer Berries and The Pearl. I also love to see it in a landscape planting. Very helpful
very nice for arrangements but mine are for salves and such,, very versatile plant :) . and actually i had been mowing over it formaybe 10-14 yrs., i let it try to grow this yr. and it has, a bit stunted but it is producing, tuff plant.
Yarrow has been so pretty in our landscape too! I'm having to stake them up though because I still want straight stems. So make sure you're mindful of that. 🙂
Love all your videos- hope to see more of these "variety specific" ones! Question on your presale to event florists...would this be the price you'd give at your weekly co-op? Did you set the price?
Ultimately, the grower does set the price but there is a recommended range of price we are given. Typically, if multiple growers are selling the same thing, we all tend to follow the same price. Any variation would be due to stem length difference or some difference in blooms.
Thank You Very much for your informative video. Iam more of the Outdoor, Camping and Bushcraft type. One of my main motivation’s for growing Yarrow is it’s health and medicinal uses,,, but it looks great and is quite hardy too. My beloved wife is a mosquito magnet. Using Yarrow to make a tincture could solve this problem. Have You ever heard of this,,,??? Thanks,,,, Joshua
I actually haven't but that would be amazing if yarrow could be used to make tincture! Have you tried to traditional citronella or lemongrass? Regardless, yarrow is great to grow. It's spray-type of floral behavior makes it fantastic in attracting beneficial insects. This is because the nectar is really easy to access so these "umbrella" like plants do some great good for our local ecosystem. Just beware though, it grows vigorously and is an aggressive self seeder so you definitely want to be on top of it :)
I'll do a video on this one day but the TLDR summary is that you have to apply, get accepted and then we list our items a full week in advance before the market day. Florists who buy need to have a buyer's pass (which they pay for) and they can pre-order and then shop the market floor. The co-op takes 20% of our sales which is used to pay for things like a market manager, rubber bands, sleeves, etc.
@@bareflowerfarm would definitely make for a good episode. Just snagged my website, instagram account, etc. Working all the business angles first, then tackling the farm game plan. Not sure I can be ready to grow this fall, except for test growing for climate/soil etc. here in North Texas, but I am so excited! You have really inspired me to get growing literally and figuratively. We have a lot of deer pressure here, plus wild pigs so I will need to be pretty diligent on my fencing. Some of our pasture has some small, wild daffodils and last time we drove out there (we live about 2 1/2 hours away for now), the pigs had torn up the area rooting around. :(
The deer are eating my yarrow, geraniums, raphalipsis (spelling)...and we can't afford fencing (on just under one acre). Have oak trees and want to plant in the shade that they give but the d eer also eat hostas....its their salad.....feeling frustrated. They never ate the raphalipsis until all the nrought that we had for the last several years, but thankfully this last fall and spring we returned to our old California rains.....but now the deer continue to eat them...about five of them out ofeight or nine in the backyard are almost down to the ground, and now they are starting on the ones in the front....deer repellent isn't working....HELP! Zone 8....used to be called Zone 7
So I literally just came back from the outside where I discovered they ate my echinops! Say what?! Im going to def keep a patch of yarrow in my fenced in area but this drought is definitely making them desperate, eating things they’re not supposed to. Hang in there, I hope things improve for you!
@@firehorsewoman414 For us right now, the deer are so desperate that deer repellent isn't working (THAT is stinky) and they're jumping fences they normally wouldn't :(. All this to say, the only way of keeping them out is to build a +9ft fence
@@bareflowerfarm that is bad. This wouldn’t help @smoothsailingmp since fencing their acre is not an option, but in your case, you might be helped by putting up a cheap, five-foot fence (chicken wire variety five feet outside from your existing deer fence. Deer will jump long, or deer will jump high, but not both and they don’t like enclosed spaces, like the alleyway that the two fences create. They should not be able to jump both in a single leap and so it is a deterrent for them. To save a bit of $$, buy the taller t-posts and the three to four foot tall chicken wire, but secure it at the top of the posts (leaving the gap at the bottom) as you already have the full fence inside to keep rabbits out. It won’t be pretty, but it should work and if it doesn’t, it can be easily taken down and materials used elsewhere. Supposedly two five-foot fences that are five feet apart works. The “supposedly” probably gives it away, but this is theoretical. I haven’t actually tried this. Our deer here in NE Texas aren’t as people friendly, and we have a lot more space for them to forage. That being said, with you having deer problems with an eight-foot fence tells me that my flower area will need to be in the middle of our quail pens (12-foot walls) and I will use them as my “fencing”. I expect that my biggest hurdle will be crazy weather - like in January we will get an 80 degrees one day and then 30 degrees the next, or when we have 40 degree drops in a matter of hours. I am thinking that I will have to resort to growing under glass more than I wanted to, and that will change my pest pressure quite a bit I think. Still researching: things I don’t know: 95%. - things I do know: 5%. Thank you for helping me shift more into the “know” column.
Hi! Good call out but one reason why I’m less focused on seed is because yarrow is so easily divisible that it makes less sense in my view to collect seed when you can just divide and plant!
