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Sierra Flower Farm
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2018
To Be A Flower Farmer
To get the pretty flowers takes a lot of dirt, grit and pampering over plants but we wouldn't have it any other way! It comes down to loving and embracing the journey of flower farming.
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Five Minute Flower Friday - Poppies | Ep.3 | Almost Everything to Know to Grow, Harvest & Design.
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In the name of time being our biggest assets as humans, we have created a series: Five Minute Flower Friday (FMFF). A video series where you can find almost everything you need to know to grow, harvest and design with all different types of fluffy beauties in five minutes or under. Today we are talking everything about ICELAND POPPIES! Blogs - FLOWER SPOTLIGHT: ICELAND POPPIES www.sierraflowerf...
Five Minute Flower Friday - Ranunculus | Ep.2 | Almost Everything to Know to Grow, Harvest & Design.
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In the name of time being our biggest assets as humans, we have created a series: Five Minute Flower Friday (FMFF). A video series where you can find almost everything you need to know to grow, harvest and design with all different types of fluffy beauties in five minutes or under. Today we are talking everything about RANUNCULUS! Blogs - NITTY GRITTY: PRE-SPROUTING RANUNCULUS & ANEMONE CORMS w...
Five Minute Flower Friday - Anemones | Ep.1 | Almost Everything to Know to Grow, Harvest & Design.
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In the name of time being our biggest assets as humans we have created a series: Five Minute Flower Friday (FMFF). A video series where you can find almost everything you need to know to grow, harvest and design with all different types of fluffy beauties in five minutes or under. Blogs - NITTY GRITTY: PRE-SPROUTING RANUNCULUS & ANEMONE CORMS www.sierraflowerfarm.com/blog/2020/2/25/nitty-gritty...
Row Spacing & Layout For The Flower Farmer
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Join us as we go through the various areas of consideration when deciding where to place your growing patch on your property, as well as which way to orient your rows, along with what size to make the growing beds and the walking paths. Blogs - Crop planning for the flower farmer www.sierraflowerfarm.com/blog/2022/1/15/crop-planning-for-the-flower-farmer - Succession Planting of Annuals for the...
Starting a Flower Farm in 2022
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Flower farming is not a one size fits all operation, but we've got a few tips that are sure to help you on your journey independent upon what path you take. If you find these tips helpful be sure to sign up for our flower farming news letter where we will be exclusive content and worksheets to help you along as well as livestreams, right here on TH-cam, to go over all your questions. Blogs - Ad...
Wreath-O-Matic
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Join us today as we make a farmer-florist holiday wreath that we would make for one of our customers using all foraged and homegrown ingredients with our Mitchell no hammer clamp wreath machine! Blogs 0:00 Introduction 0:42 Wreath-O-Matic 2:02 Ingredient Preparation 3:00 Construction 7:47 Accents 9:56 Final Thoughts Website: www.sierraflowerfarm.com/ Facebook: sierraflowerfarm/ Twi...
Peter Peter Pumpkin... Designer?
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Join us as we show you how to create a centerpiece using all ingredients from our field, even the pumpkin! Blogs - Flower Components www.sierraflowerfarm.com/blog/2021/1/5/the-theatrical-performance-of-flowers-aka-the-breakdown-of-different-components - Shoulder Season Flower Farming www.sierraflowerfarm.com/blog/2021/3/9/flower-farming-pushing-the-boundaries-with-shoulder-seasons 0:00 Introduc...
Our Top 5 Flowers & Components of Fall
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Jack Frost has come to greet us and put most of our flower beds to sleep for the growing season but we have a few beauties that withstood the first frosts of fall! Let’s chat our top five floral components of fall and have fun designing with them! Blogs - Flower Components www.sierraflowerfarm.com/blog/2021/1/5/the-theatrical-performance-of-flowers-aka-the-breakdown-of-different-components - Sh...
Conquering the Great Dahlia Divide
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Dahlias have a habit of stealing our hearts and we can never get enough of them! Let’s build our dahlia tuber stock up by dividing our clumps lifted from the field. Join us as we take a clump and go through dividing it cut by cut, step by step. To learn about lifting dahlia tubers and to get more in the nitty gritty of dividing and storing dahlia tubers be sure to check out our other videos on ...
Top Five Winter Tasks for Flower Farmers
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Today let's talk about what a flower farmer does during the winter months and surprisingly it involves a lot less napping than you’d think! Here are our top five winter tasks for the flower farmer! Be sure to check out all the amazing information we have for your flower farming journey over on our blog at www.sierraflowerfarm.com/blog-1 Our favorite online app for organizing our crazy lives: ww...
New Year and New Beginnings for Sierra Flower Farm!
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New Year and New Beginnings for Sierra Flower Farm!
I'm wondering what has happened to you guys? I just found your blog last week. This video is from a year ago and have enjoyed them so very much.
Wow! You summed up a year of gathering info in 5 min😅 ty🎉🎉
I left a pincushion growing since very early spring.. in a veg bed. I cut it back during summer and it now, in late November 6a, is a low growing bush about 2 1/2' wide. I also have a cosmo.. made it through 4 frosts.. both are white. The past 3 years have been milder exempt for the crazy blizzard three years back. Oh the joy of winter.. seeing the hardy's enjoying themselves before there long nap. ☺️
Worth watching. Thankful for your content.. going to shop local for a camera.. good deals for black Friday. Perfect timing!
God's gift to our eyes and his Creation.. Ah flowers...
I looked for two years in Google hopping for someone to tell me what direction was best.. you are the only one that I know of that clearly made it understandable why. I hope youtube monetizes above and beyond🎉
I find 2' best for me at 5'7"😅.. a bed I have is 4' and it strains my back. Do what is best for you, it does depend on how far your reach is. Thanks for all these thoughtout tips.
This is a video worth watching! Thank you.. so needed for newbees.
Thank you so much for this video! So information lacked! ❤❤❤
It would help if you explained the measurements you used. I am watching detox videos for "how to" information. This is the third I have watched and I still have no idea of what or where to purchase or measurements to mix with water (video shows someone measuring on a scale so it is obviously important but why not just mix in your sprayer? If it is a 4-gallon just figure out how many cups per one gallon and multiply). Very frustrating.
oh my gosh not butt nuggets 💀💀
Thank you for the great instructional video. I love the combination of ingredients, and I'm so excited because you used all ingredients we already grow or can forage on our flower farm :)
Perfect music!! 😂❤ love this.
Love this arrangement so much!
Where do you get such a apparatus? I have a wholesale number so I can buy wholesale and where do you buy the rings wholesale. I think this would be great also with silk flowers thank you for your information
Hi Jessica, can you share some resources for purchasing corms? I have only found them offered at a few websites, and they don't have great reviews. Thank you!
Great info, thanks! This is my 1st year using this machine so I am trying to learn what I can before using it. How long to you cut your stems? I LOVE the bunny Tails and Dusty Miller. I would Never have thought to use them
Thank you, thank you! I happened upon your website as I was doing research with my 14 year old 4H’er. A friend of mine and I have been on a journey to start marketing her dairy business and teach our kids the value of seeing the value in what we are provided. It has been such a joy to build the community we have with our small town as we express interest in various parts of life. Last year my daughter decided to get out her bicycle and ride our country roads to cut “ditch flowers” that she wanted to place in arrangements which she sold as a fundraiser for our dairy friends to go to a national track meet. This sparked an interest in starting a business myself, but I wasn’t sure what I was doing. Through reading your blog and watching this similarly named video, you have pulled together comments about all of the excitement into different topics into one cohesive vision!! I loved your section about taking failure “off the table” because I have lived in a fear based world a majority of my life. Finding success in faith and not fear in failure is definitely the moot of the flower. Your honesty and wisdom is very much appreciated. Thank you again for sharing and inspiring women to “bloom where you are planted”.
Beautifully done :)
Have y’all heard of Grazon? Most hay farms treat their fields with it. It’s an herbicide that can last years in horse manure. It’ll ruin your plants. Be careful with horse poop! Even if the horse pasture is untreated, the hay bales they buy are most likely treated…
Gracias por tu video, me ha sido de gran ayuda y me animas a comenzar mi granja de flores Ya!
Lovely - it definitely DOES 'wreath' ... beautifully!
i would love to see a video on that weave you did for the dahlias!
GREAT information. Thank you so very much! (Writing from Upstate SC USA)
Yes, in the end there is pretty flowers! But the months leading up to the pretty flowers is hard work, dedication, trials & error, planning, spending $$$$, disappointments, sweat and maybe even some tears....then comes the pretty 💐 🌼
This almost made me cry!! Excellent video and you summed up the journey perfectly!
Thank you Katie! Not going to lie… I cried when Graham first showed me!
Really enjoying your videos. There is so much conflicting information about when to dig dahlias. It's crazy. So after the kill frost and after you cut them back......how long do you leave them in the ground? I have read to leave them in the ground for 1-2 weeks to let them cure and then in a video I watched, they said after you cut the stalks you should get them out of the ground so the tubers don't rot. What do you do?
Hi Katie, thank you for your kind words! After a kill frost we typically leave the tubers in for a week or two. If we don’t have a kill frost but are itching to get them out we cut them back and allow them to sit for a week or two. We have found leaving the tubers allows them to better cure for storage. Now, if you are looking at a huge amount of moisture with consecutive days or really low freezing temps, it’s best to get them out of the ground than for them to go through a freeze/thaw pattern that can result in rot. Hope this answers your question! 🌱
@@sierraflowerfarm thank you so much!!!! It absolutely helps!
I found your channel a week ago and have been watching all your videos. I also follow you on IG. Since it's been years that you bought your farm, have you done update videos on what your flower farm looks like now?
Hi Karie! We have videos but haven’t done a full update video on the farm, we should do that this season, thank you for the idea!
@Sierra Flower Farm absolutely! I think it would be amazing to see the transformation in your gardens. Where you started to where you are at now. I watched all your videos, and you guys started with poor soil and then had the unfortunate situation where you brought in contaminated soil .......or soil high in salts (sorry I am forgetting at the moment) But you guys didn't quit, you figured out solutions and turned it into a successful flower farm. That is so inspiring!!!!!
Do the seeds need to be cold stratified before sowing? I read that they need cold stratification. Do you find this to be true?
We haven't experienced this when it comes to Iceland poppies but other varieties my benefit from cold stratification.
@@sierraflowerfarm thank you! I have grown all varieties of poppies, except the Iceland poppies. This is my first year attempting to grow them.
I have never used the water/bleach solution before. I think it would help so much. What is the ratio? After you take the tubers out of the solution, how long will it take for them to dry again?
We aren't too precise when we are in the throws of dividing and will usually just add a splash of bleach to a container of water, but the technical answer is 1 part bleach to 256 parts water.
@sierraflowerfarm thank you so much for replying. I am getting so frustrated losing tubers to either winter rot or even worse when I purchase tubers from reputable companies and after the season, find out they have leafy crown gall. Now, after you take the tubers out of the solution, they will need to dry out again before storing, correct?
Wow! This just rocked my world. I have too much salt in my soil and off the cuff I decided to drench my soil before planting with yucca extract. I hope I did it right. @sierraflowerfarm4921 How often do you flush and how much yucca do you add to your drench? Thank you so much for sharing!
we have been lucky since filming this video because we identified what was causing the problem and stopped using it on any of the new ground we opened up. As for the affected patches, between rain water naturally flushing the salts and select planting of crops that can handle and help remove the salts (grasses) from the soil, the affected rows have now been healed. We only had to use the yucca flush during the season that we added the salty manure to the soil. However, when we were flushing with the yucca we would only apply it every 3 to 4 weeks and we would mix the solution as directed on the product.
Where does one find that machinery
mitchellwreathrings.com
We got about a 3rd of out dahlias out with a pick axe - now the area where they are stored is too warm as we try to warm frozen pipes - I need to rescue the drying tubers again - how do you suggest to best store them?
Hi Meredith, sorry to hear this. We go into great detail on how we process and store our tubers over the winter in our video The Great Dahlia Divide th-cam.com/video/9zgk1FZ34rY/w-d-xo.html
So u used yucca what from.where
I have a rannuculus FAILURE. This fall 2022 Really.really.bad Out.of.300 plants 4 I.start mine in.fall then plant out in late jan or early.feb.
I just.have a yard I planted.really.really thick.this.year ..i did it in my.veggie garden last year with super. Early flowers and it worked.really well. To stop weeds mostly..and have some pretties
Time does slip away and things get forgotten.. thank you for sharing!
I was also going to ask how it came out of the sprayer being it was gritty, I will have to check out your blog. That is always a fear when buying new property, you have no clue what the previous home owner used. Our lawn was more weeds than grass, so we weren't to afraid of too many chemicals but still needed to get the levels correct for planting.
Hi Emmy, the activated charcoal powder was fine enough that if passed right through the emitter without problem. The product was created with the intention to be able to apply it through a spray emitter.
What new dahlias are in your list
Wow such a cool video guys.Thanks so much ❤
This wreath is absolutely gorgeous!
What a beautiful wreath!
Hi Jessica- I'm in Canada and trying to source the Mitchell No Hammer Machine and Rings. What size ring(s) do you find to be most popular? And does it help to offer a variety of price points? What size did you use for the video? Thanks so much. I've gone back to your video several times.
Hi Nancy! The ring in the video is 14” which I find to be the standard size and is the only size I’ve used for Christmas wreaths.
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Just wondering if you ever had your soil tested?
Yes we have and do so each fall. The situation in this particular video was self caused from poorly sourced compost. Four years later, after growing crops that can handle salt better (lettuce, grasses, etc.) along with flushing and better sourced compost, we don’t have a problem with it anymore 🙂
@@sierraflowerfarm gosh so much to learn about soil and amendments. Thank you for this lesson!!
There is! The good news is we learned that soil can heal and plants want to grow when given a chance. Happy growing! 🤍
I wish I lived near you! I would totally sign up for the dahlia subscription. Keep up with the good work!!
Thank you for the informative video! Can't wait to try planting anemones, I'm in a high plains/dessert area and wasn't sure if they would do well here but it doesn't hurt to try.
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Very helpful, thank you! This was my first year with Anemone's and I'm hooked! I did not realize the collar lengthens with the age of the bloom, very interesting!
Yay for first year with Anemones and they definitely get you hook line and sinker haha! I'm glad you learned something new, thank you for the kind comment and happy growing!
Wow, this is absolutely stunning!!! I just invested last year in a clamp machine for my little roadside stand, and it's life changing!!!!! Im also growing hares tail and eucalyptus this year, so I'll be trying a similar recipe for sure!! Do you mind sharing how much you might sell that for? Setting prices is so hard ti figure out!!
Through much exploration, I’ve learned a lot about growing cool season veg crops and what they can handle. This year, I tried Costa snapdragons (although, I learned of the groups too late) and stock, from the Iron series. Even though I planted them out at 6-8 wk window before my last frost, I’m not sure they’ll make it. I’m in 6b, southern Ohio. I was wanting to squeak these flowers in and still be able to plant a succession of zinnias afterward. I’ve definitely been feeling my brain swirl over all the dates and planning, when to cover and uncover and with what. A green house and/or hoop house might be the only way for me to pull them off. 🤷🏼♀️ Plus, different variety of snaps! I love practicing and experimenting, but, as you probably understand, thar amount of stress and the will to succeed that comes along with it all! I would love to know from others, success or failures, in a climate and zone like mine. Google is not always helpful. 😅 Many best wishes to you and your flower farming future. Happy that I found your farm, very inspiring!