Could some of the petals that folded over been from the tray above when they were sliding in the dryer? If you watch the video back thats what it looks like.
I would try the dinner plates again but only do three trays and if you can remove the racks for more room. I noticed they were getting smooshed by the tray above when slid in. I would also try the daisies types and roses too, upright using a “flower frog” to hold the straight. You can even air dry using the upright flower frog method. Probably 12-18 hours would be enough because flowers aren’t as dense as veggies. The freeze dried Golden Rod makes good tea as well as tinctures. Also, you should send Jessica one of the Tangerine Skies dried roses.
Hey beautiful SoilSista 💕 I freeze dry everything 🤣 We do weekly experiments to see what work and what freeze dry good. Herbs and flowers are absolutely amazing and to know they last up to 25+ years. Blessings. Thanks for sharing SoilSista ❤️
On Gardeners' World 2022 Episode 27 (you can watch it on TH-cam) 22:38 min It shows how one lady dries ( not freeze dry but dry) her dahlias and she shows how she does it.
Beautiful beautiful flowers and loved the cones and dark, Daniel from northlands flower farm is simply air drying her dahlias for tree please check it out ,and omg ur roses love 💕 love ❤️ ur earrings too💃💃🤗
It looked like when they went in they got bent over as the try slid in ,if you flattened them out a bit before you slid in the tray they might have looked better.
So cool, I love dried flowers and I thikn you could take some of preserve them in appoxy resin and make some really beautiful, earrings, keychains, pendants, and other cool things with WWF on them.
That’s awesome! I grew straw flowers & need to make some arrangements! I’ll go pick some black eyed Susan’s & goldenrod & asters & anything else I can find 😂 thanks for the video
I was also thinking that freeze dried petals would be amazing for soaps and teas. I love this video! Those roses 😍 I'd like to see a dwarf teddy bear sunflower. Maybe calendula?
The goldenrod will freeze dry perfectly. But you probably have figured it out already. How fun! think of all the creative projects you can do with the flowers 🌺
Do you know how long they will last? Will they rehydrate themselves in anyway? I just got a freeze dryer and grew flowers this year and I had been looking into this as well. Very excited to try it
We used to use old school Aqua Net hair spray for flowers like your goldenrod that have multiple tiny flower parts. It kept the tiny parts from coming loose over time.
Loved the freeze dried flowers. Have you considered making multi-sectioned (divided) shadowboxes? That might be a nice (and timeless) gift of a person's favorite flowers. Wishing you and your family the best 🥰
More gentle sublimation, less temp, less pull , would possibly cause less change. Awesome first try. Would love to see if you are still working with flowers and what temperature and pressure you set your machine.
Don’t they turn into powder if you press them? It seems like everything can turn into powder after going through freeze drying process . I make flower infused oils and wonder if its terpenes remain in the flower also. Do you make calendula and lavender oils with freeze dried flowers?
I had yellow color lady bug's and they killed my plants. If anyone knows how to kill them let me know. They got my green beans and squash. And yellow tiny fuzzy caterpillars. Please help. I live i north east me MD.
I’m sure you probably already figured this out and that other people have commented this, but I thought I’d express this just to make sure☺️ hehehehehe. The large flowers got bent and folded over and smashed when put into the freeze dryer. Is it possible to remove a rack so they have more height to sit in and then that way they don’t get smashed? I don’t know if you can remove the racks or not.
I have a frame that holds my Grandmother's bridal flowers. I'm really not sure how she preserved them, but they are amazing., edited to add that my grandmother was married in the 1920's
I think the dahlias would have done just fine had you not crushed them. they were too close to the pan above them. if you only did 2 pans at a time it would let them have room.I think you'd find your Dahlia's would look beautiful
So cool!! They turned out nice! ❤️ I'm trying hang drying just a few dahlias as an experiment... They don't retain the shape/color as well, of course. I also hang dry a lot of other flowers which work great, and pressed some flowers too. Experiments! 😊
I found that basket at my local thrift randomly last fall and ... I took it as a sign. Honestly ... how do these things find us. I never have ever looked for them until growing.
You’d want to place smaller less dense in one batch which would run less time & the thicker denser ones like coneflower in its own batch which would run longer….
Maybe the smooshed dinnerplate dahlias got "damaged" when they were entered in the freeze dryer not by the proccess. When Nathan was entering the trays i saw that some were too big for the slot space. All the dahlias have only one side damaged not both.
Jill please don’t give up on you dinner plate dahlias. Try leaving a empty shelf and a empty tray underneath leaving that space and using a long tool go through the space and put the plate dahlias on the empty tray and the would have the needed high to let then not be folded over and crushed. 🤞🏼🤞🏼💕
I wonder if the dinner plates didn’t have enough room to stand up true to form. He had to flatten them a little to get them in dryer. I still think it’s a great way to do wreaths.
This is so neat! You should keep some of them and build a beautiful shadow box with all different stages of the flowers and put it somewhere in your home. Thanks for sharing! Blessings 🥰
Jill, I think this could be a wonderful little business for Charlie. She could harvest the last blooms from your flower beds spring -fall and freeze dry them and sell them on Etsy to crafters and your followers that want to support her.
@@WhisperingWillowFarmFYI people LOVE to buy things from kids selling!! It will work lol. Give her her own small table. Also please wear gloves cutting flowers. I cut myself badly on my thumb which is now numb and dropped the clippers and they landed between my palm and finger and I actually needed a surgery. Geez….. so much for making money at the market when you have Dr and surgery bills lol
If the freezing is too slow, the flowers will get "frostbite", or "freezer burn". ie the brown "burnt" areas. You can minimise this issue by freezing more rapidly, thereby reducing the ice crystal formation, and therefore less cell damage
OMG! Your flowers are so lovely and I think they came out great in your freeze dryer. I am wondering if instead of tossing any out, try selling them like on crafter's sites like Etsy where you could bag the ones you think are not so great and let crafter's use the petals and such in their projects (i.e. people who make jewelry from flowers and resin). Just a thought!
Borage creates a beautiful star flower in a tiny purpley blue color and I bet they would freeze dry well and would be so pretty on a small wreath or something dainty, etc.
That’s so cool. When you were saying to save some for the girls, the first thing I thought of was a pretty little farmhouse style frame with a flower head in it for their bedrooms. I may make one for my kitchen or something ❤
Might be blessed soon to press flowers in a nursing home I volunteer with at my church. They're basically stuck in there and love projects. Love and respect the elderly.....
I sure wished you lived closer. We buy storage units and I had a thrift type shop. I could never sell baskets like you bought for $8 so I burned them. Love your channel.
I wonder if you tried doing the dinner plates face down the petals wouldn’t curl. It kind of looked like it was a tight fit for them. Love that you explore the unknown. Great job guys.
I think the dinner plate dahlia didn’t do well just because it was smooshed going into the drier. Maybe try with only every other tray in so it has more room and doesn't get smooshed. They are just gorgeous tho❣️
My aunt freeze dried flowers from my grandma’s funeral in February and put them in shadow boxes for us grandkids. Grandma loved flowers and always had them in buckets of silica gel around her house or pressed in her Bible. The freeze dried flowers were so special for us!
💚 How lovely are those freeze-dried flowers! There's lots of possibilities there! I saw a Three Rivers Homestead vlog where she freeze-dried Calendula flowers and one of the daughters strung some up in a garland and hung it along the top of the window. Love your footage of harvesting the flowers together 💚
You and Nathan are such a power house team a beautiful couple with amazing kiddos!! Thanks for the encouraging videos you aput out for the world to see
Oh yes...I worked in a florist thirty years ago and we freeze dried al types of flowers. We sed them in all sorts of dried arrangements...they were stunning.
Omg this is amazing! What a great idea. I love the idea of making wreaths and ornaments with them. Maybe take some of the tangerine sky arbor roses and make a wreath or ornament for Jess. If I remember right they were a gift from miah and the boys
So fun with an abundance of options on what to do with them. I don't have a freeze dryer, yet, but one day. There are just so many uses for one. The flowers really kept their color well. Thanks for sharing.
Could some of the petals that folded over been from the tray above when they were sliding in the dryer? If you watch the video back thats what it looks like.
I agree. When doing the bigger flowers I would do less trays and put an empty space in between the trays
Great advice, I'll try that next time
I agree, maybe do less trays for more room
I would try the dinner plates again but only do three trays and if you can remove the racks for more room. I noticed they were getting smooshed by the tray above when slid in. I would also try the daisies types and roses too, upright using a “flower frog” to hold the straight. You can even air dry using the upright flower frog method. Probably 12-18 hours would be enough because flowers aren’t as dense as veggies. The freeze dried Golden Rod makes good tea as well as tinctures. Also, you should send Jessica one of the Tangerine Skies dried roses.
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Love that you all get so much quality time 🥰 It is so refreshing when channels show healthy marriages. What a ministry! ❤️
Look at you Nathan! Smelling and arranging flowers with your honey. You are just such a good man, husband and father. Hugs.
Loving those glasses. You’re Such a cutie 🥰 I love freeze dried things. I don’t own a machine but maybe one day ❤
Hey beautiful SoilSista 💕 I freeze dry everything 🤣 We do weekly experiments to see what work and what freeze dry good. Herbs and flowers are absolutely amazing and to know they last up to 25+ years. Blessings. Thanks for sharing SoilSista ❤️
On Gardeners' World 2022 Episode 27 (you can watch it on TH-cam) 22:38 min It shows how one lady dries ( not freeze dry but dry) her dahlias and she shows how she does it.
What variety blackberry do you have..I live in Florida
No dont toss them.. create a potpourri with them. That'd be an awesome gift for you to give someone.
Some looked like the large flower’s petals bent over when you put them in?
Beautiful beautiful flowers and loved the cones and dark, Daniel from northlands flower farm is simply air drying her dahlias for tree please check it out ,and omg ur roses love 💕 love ❤️ ur earrings too💃💃🤗
It looked like when they went in they got bent over as the try slid in ,if you flattened them out a bit before you slid in the tray they might have looked better.
So cool, I love dried flowers and I thikn you could take some of preserve them in appoxy resin and make some really beautiful, earrings, keychains, pendants, and other cool things with WWF on them.
That’s awesome! I grew straw flowers & need to make some arrangements! I’ll go pick some black eyed Susan’s & goldenrod & asters & anything else I can find 😂 thanks for the video
Freeze drying removes moisture, but some of the moisture will return, so I’m waiting to see what they look like once that happens. If it does!
I was also thinking that freeze dried petals would be amazing for soaps and teas. I love this video!
Those roses 😍
I'd like to see a dwarf teddy bear sunflower. Maybe calendula?
I freeze dried Golden Rod also, and days later, I can still smell them when I walk past my freeze dryer! I need to give it a good cleaning.
The goldenrod will freeze dry perfectly. But you probably have figured it out already. How fun! think of all the creative projects you can do with the flowers 🌺
Love Nathan's facial impressions... he's so fun to watch
Do you know how long they will last? Will they rehydrate themselves in anyway?
I just got a freeze dryer and grew flowers this year and I had been looking into this as well. Very excited to try it
This is my first experience but I've been told if you keep them in a tote with a lid in your closet, they will stay good for a long time
There is a whole freeze drying floral association! That group supports freeze drying wedding flowers, etc. It’s a huge thing!
We used to use old school Aqua Net hair spray for flowers like your goldenrod that have multiple tiny flower parts. It kept the tiny parts from coming loose over time.
Maybe try putting the Dahlias face down on the trays and see if that helps keep them from folding up!
Loved the freeze dried flowers. Have you considered making multi-sectioned (divided) shadowboxes? That might be a nice (and timeless) gift of a person's favorite flowers. Wishing you and your family the best 🥰
Great idea
More gentle sublimation, less temp, less pull , would possibly cause less change. Awesome first try. Would love to see if you are still working with flowers and what temperature and pressure you set your machine.
Also watering flowers well, hours before you cut them can help.
Thanks for the tips
Can we make natural Color dye out of this ?
I bet you could
So can you take the small ones out early? The large ones every other tray?
I'll try that next time
Don’t they turn into powder if you press them? It seems like everything can turn into powder after going through freeze drying process . I make flower infused oils and wonder if its terpenes remain in the flower also. Do you make calendula and lavender oils with freeze dried flowers?
Whaaaat?!? A freeze dryer was on my list of things to get and now it’s higher on the list. I love this!! Thank you 🌱🥰
Wonderful vlog 🥰 I have hung up some dahlias, hydrangeas and sedum for autumn decorating 🥰
I had yellow color lady bug's and they killed my plants. If anyone knows how to kill them let me know. They got my green beans and squash. And yellow tiny fuzzy caterpillars. Please help. I live i north east me MD.
I thought freeze dried flowers are hold their structure and color much better than silica drying. Im very disappointed😢
I’m sure you probably already figured this out and that other people have commented this, but I thought I’d express this just to make sure☺️ hehehehehe. The large flowers got bent and folded over and smashed when put into the freeze dryer. Is it possible to remove a rack so they have more height to sit in and then that way they don’t get smashed? I don’t know if you can remove the racks or not.
I have a frame that holds my Grandmother's bridal flowers. I'm really not sure how she preserved them, but they are amazing., edited to add that my grandmother was married in the 1920's
Wow that's amazing
I would skip a tray between the dinner plates. Pretty sure there just wasn’t enough room. They would be beautiful dried!
Freeze dry flowers is a wonderful way to get loose leaf teas
I think the dahlias would have done just fine had you not crushed them. they were too close to the pan above them. if you only did 2 pans at a time it would let them have room.I think you'd find your Dahlia's would look beautiful
I don't know how the freeze dryer is made but I'm wondering if you can dry the dahlias using just two trays with space in between.
So cool!! They turned out nice! ❤️
I'm trying hang drying just a few dahlias as an experiment... They don't retain the shape/color as well, of course. I also hang dry a lot of other flowers which work great, and pressed some flowers too. Experiments! 😊
I don’t raspberries cuz bugs but black berrys have a good record for me still I’m excited to build my freezer :)
I found that basket at my local thrift randomly last fall and ... I took it as a sign. Honestly ... how do these things find us. I never have ever looked for them until growing.
You’d want to place smaller less dense in one batch which would run less time & the thicker denser ones like coneflower in its own batch which would run longer….
Maybe the smooshed dinnerplate dahlias got "damaged" when they were entered in the freeze dryer not by the proccess. When Nathan was entering the trays i saw that some were too big for the slot space. All the dahlias have only one side damaged not both.
I'd luv to have some canes or starts or whatever of those twice a year blackberries especially if they could be grown in a pot.
You could use the flowers in shadow box style picture frames as gifts or wall art or even to sell in your shop. The shadow box frames are pretty deep.
Jill please don’t give up on you dinner plate dahlias. Try leaving a empty shelf and a empty tray underneath leaving that space and using a long tool go through the space and put the plate dahlias on the empty tray and the would have the needed high to let then not be folded over and crushed. 🤞🏼🤞🏼💕
Oh fun I'm excited to see how they turn out! Tangerine Skies is a Kordes Arborose.
What type of blackberries are you growing?
Think the larger flowers getting smooshed when you put them in and the getting squashed by the top trays
I wonder if the dinner plates didn’t have enough room to stand up true to form. He had to flatten them a little to get them in dryer. I still think it’s a great way to do wreaths.
This is so neat! You should keep some of them and build a beautiful shadow box with all different stages of the flowers and put it somewhere in your home. Thanks for sharing! Blessings 🥰
What varieties of berries do y’all recommend? We are getting into berries and fruit trees.
I just wonder if you freeze dried flowers that are edible and add them to add other spices if wound be better for are health God Bless
the roses and golden rod, and the triloba black eyed susans were my fave. So pretty!
What variety Blackberries are those purdy please
What brand coffee machine do you have? My wife needs ones Tia
That's super cool!
Thanks, i thought so
Crazy how well the flowers kept their vibrant color as compared to drying to what I've seen with drying upside down. So pretty.
Jill, I think this could be a wonderful little business for Charlie. She could harvest the last blooms from your flower beds spring -fall and freeze dry them and sell them on Etsy to crafters and your followers that want to support her.
Great idea, thanks for sharing
Of course! ❤
@@WhisperingWillowFarmFYI people LOVE to buy things from kids selling!! It will work lol. Give her her own small table. Also please wear gloves cutting flowers. I cut myself badly on my thumb which is now numb and dropped the clippers and they landed between my palm and finger and I actually needed a surgery. Geez….. so much for making money at the market when you have Dr and surgery bills lol
I was told to dip them in water first then shake the water off before freeze drying
Aren't they super brittle and fragile?
Can I ask where you got your dahlia tubers?
Ants taste like lemons, that would just add to the flavor!
Try freeze drying for less time love ur dahlia too
What a great idea and the flowers look so cool! Thanks for sharing:)
They would look so pretty in a frame on the wall 🥰
What machine is that
Medium size freeze dryer affiliates.harvestright.com/1352.html
If the freezing is too slow, the flowers will get "frostbite", or "freezer burn". ie the brown "burnt" areas. You can minimise this issue by freezing more rapidly, thereby reducing the ice crystal formation, and therefore less cell damage
Thanks for the tip
Yes sadly I don’t have a freeze dryer!
OMG! Your flowers are so lovely and I think they came out great in your freeze dryer. I am wondering if instead of tossing any out, try selling them like on crafter's sites like Etsy where you could bag the ones you think are not so great and let crafter's use the petals and such in their projects (i.e. people who make jewelry from flowers and resin). Just a thought!
Borage creates a beautiful star flower in a tiny purpley blue color and I bet they would freeze dry well and would be so pretty on a small wreath or something dainty, etc.
This is such a cool video!
Nate is such a darling man. You know the whole time he is wishing he was with the pigs.
🤣 you're correct and thank you
That’s so cool. When you were saying to save some for the girls, the first thing I thought of was a pretty little farmhouse style frame with a flower head in it for their bedrooms. I may make one for my kitchen or something ❤
Might be blessed soon to press flowers in a nursing home I volunteer with at my church. They're basically stuck in there and love projects. Love and respect the elderly.....
Cute how your hubby work beside you on prepping flowers! How many men would not do that cuz it could be considered a feminine thing?!😊😊
Awesome!!!
I sure wished you lived closer. We buy storage units and I had a thrift type shop. I could never sell baskets like you bought for $8 so I burned them. Love your channel.
I wonder if you tried doing the dinner plates face down the petals wouldn’t curl. It kind of looked like it was a tight fit for them. Love that you explore the unknown. Great job guys.
Nathan is showing some of that awesome personality!
I come out of my shell now and then
I think the dinner plate dahlia didn’t do well just because it was smooshed going into the drier. Maybe try with only every other tray in so it has more room and doesn't get smooshed. They are just gorgeous tho❣️
Some daliahs will keep in ground with heavy mulch, but idk about in raised beds.
You should try overwintering daliahs in ground in the high tunnel!
My aunt freeze dried flowers from my grandma’s funeral in February and put them in shadow boxes for us grandkids. Grandma loved flowers and always had them in buckets of silica gel around her house or pressed in her Bible. The freeze dried flowers were so special for us!
💚 How lovely are those freeze-dried flowers! There's lots of possibilities there! I saw a Three Rivers Homestead vlog where she freeze-dried Calendula flowers and one of the daughters strung some up in a garland and hung it along the top of the window. Love your footage of harvesting the flowers together 💚
That is so neat!!
You and Nathan are such a power house team a beautiful couple with amazing kiddos!! Thanks for the encouraging videos you aput out for the world to see
Oh yes...I worked in a florist thirty years ago and we freeze dried al types of flowers. We sed them in all sorts of dried arrangements...they were stunning.
Omg this is amazing! What a great idea. I love the idea of making wreaths and ornaments with them. Maybe take some of the tangerine sky arbor roses and make a wreath or ornament for Jess. If I remember right they were a gift from miah and the boys
❤️ flowers
Yes nothing like fresh berries. How cool with the flowers
The purple cone flowers grow wild around us in southwest Missouri!
I love how they all look. What an interesting way to enhance a wreath with all the shapes and colors. Love it all
Those flowers r absolutely soooo beautiful!!😊
I loved when you said you bought some tulips and your husband looks like oh yeah? I know that laugh 😅😅😅
Oh yes! It happens often 😂
Good to know they can be freeze dried!
I love your fashion sense❤
Your flowers are gorgeous
So fun with an abundance of options on what to do with them. I don't have a freeze dryer, yet, but one day. There are just so many uses for one. The flowers really kept their color well.
Thanks for sharing.