Using Flower Netting: Gladiolus and Dahlias
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I detail how and why I use flower netting on my tall plants. I purchased the flower netting called Hortonova. I use it several ways around the farm! I purchased 4 foot by 328 foot netting.
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SO TRUE ABOUT PROTECTING YOUR INVESTMENT (GLADS) ETC. I HAD ALOT OF "FUN" WATCHING YOU PUTTING THOSE POSTS IN. I WATCH YOU WHEN I NEED TO BE CHEERED-UP. YOU NEVER LET ME "DOWN". BLESSING TO YOU NICOLE!
First of all, I'm too short to use a T post driver😂, so my men folk do it for me, but my hubby highly recommends wearing ear protection when you are driving them. 😊
Ear plugs are definitely a good idea!
I feel you on the rocks. The property we are in the process of taking over has what feels like a slab of rocks about 8-12". Everywhere you go to stick something in the ground, rocks!
Do you use this netting with zinnias and cosmos?
Where do you buy your gladiolas in bulk?
Thank you! I have wanted to know how to use floral netting. And I appreciate the gladiolus info as well!
You are so welcome!
This is the vid I’ve been looking for! Great! Thank you! Side note on T posts: those pointy parts have gone through my shoe sole when I tried stepping them into the ground. Be careful!!
I'm so happy to have found this video! I'm finally investing in learning how to properly stake my flowers and this was EXTREMELY helpful!!!
Thanks Lovely lady, I have watched several on netting and you were the first to show exactly how to put it in. Very thankful❤❤ I live in windyville as well. God bless you! Thanks for all the flower tips 2.
Great video! You look like you're ready for the Derby in your beautiful hat. Gardening in style! 😂
Thank you!
Nicole the investment for the dahlia tubers is one time investment or do you buy them new for each season?
Once planted...do you leave your corms/tubers/bulbs in the ground? Or do you dig up, store, and replant each year? Thanks.
I just bought 2500 glads from Fred Nagel. Thank you so much for what you are doing
Wonderful! I just posted a new video all about GLADS! Yay for yours!
That “turning up” is called Apical Dominance 😉....just in case you wanted to know.Can you reuse the netting year to year? Just bought a 50’ piece and am hoping to use it again...hubby vetoed to 300’ roll 😂😂
Did the netting work well on the dahlias? Some of mine got over 5 feet, I tried staking them and they did ok but the netting looks easier.
Most of my dahlias never grew past 2 feet this year so I don't have a good answer, unfortunately. They were awful this year!
I'm on a windy knoll too, so I'll be adding netting to my flower beds.
U look so cute !!!
What’s the best way/ cheapest way with on hand tools to use for hail protection? Thanks! Love your videos.
Have you tried step in posts? They are about half the price here in TN and a lot easier to put in but I’m not sure about how they would hold up in your wind/climate but it might be something to look into. I love your channel! I’m a newbie to flowers but you’ve inspired me to start 🥰
I have some of those - they are not as sturdy but they work in a pinch
I love your channel, and I love your hat. My family teases me about mine too, but I'm a ginger in the south 😁 Gotta have a big hat!
This netting will be great for my zinnias too! Mine always ends up falling over
It definitely works. I decided it is a total pain in the butt to clean up at the end of the season just a heads up!
@@FlowerHillFarm okay thanks!
All netting or just the zinnias with the netting are a pain?
Watching you and your passion for your flowers brings me so much joy… love your work🌹💝😊
solid, solid point about investing in crop protection. I really appreciate how you break down the differences between gardens and farms.
Thank you!
Have you considered putting plastic around the post and on top for a greenhouse effect?
You made me want to plant gladiolus. I just buy gladiolus corms/bulb but its too dry. Is it okay?
Enjoyed watching it, thanks for sharing! Where can I buy the net?
I enjoying watching your video. they are very inspiring.
What do you do after picking up the Gladiolus stem?
Do you mean after harvest?
@@FlowerHillFarm yes, sorry for my bad English 😅
Love to come see your garden
I am your new subscriber.
Nice rose plants
And lovely garden
Welcome, and thank you!
@@FlowerHillFarm Hi welcome g
Who needs cross fit when you’ve got lotsa farming?
Great information in this video! Thank you!
Thank you so much for all the great info on netting plants!
Would you change anything you did in the video for next year?
Ohhh bflo bills mug
7:35 if the post driving sets your teeth on edge and you’d like to skip over it.
its a scrog, 👌 good idea.
How difficult was the removal of the netting at the end of the season? Are you able to reuse in future seasons?
It was awful.
I waited too long to remove the netting. But yes, after I remove all the dead stuff tangled in it, it is still reusable.
@@FlowerHillFarm oh my goodness what a job that must have been!!!
Be careful when stepping on Tpost. It’s is pointy and you can heart you foot. It happened to me.
Thanks!
I pry underground rocks in my soil out with an old hops bar. I'm a half hour south of Utica so think we may have similar soil. A hops bar (or digging bar) is a heavy steel bar about 5-6 feet long with a pointed bulb on its end. It's heavy enough to drive into the ground when dropped and the pointed tip is used to pry under the rock. An old neighbor farmer showed me how he uses it for post-hole digging. Works like a charm! I couldn't do any planting or fence post digging without it.
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Does that netting keep the deer from eating everything
I like your spirit
I'm a small scale flower farmer.....Crocs are on my feet! Easy wash and wear!
Both my kids have crocs- I seriously need to get some!
@@FlowerHillFarm Great Idea! My feet aren't as wide as regular Crocs, so my fave style are the Freestyle Crocs....more streamlined and no straps to deal with! :)
11/22/21- now Watching FHF day 22 straight and playing continously in the background noise, and until I can I buy some merch to support FHF , I hope I can push the algorithm BECUZ ALL GARDNERS NEEDS A FAIRY GARDEN LIKE YOU IN THIER LIVES!!! 💚🤎💚🤎
Awesome idea!!!
I love your energy :)
Do you ever add another layer of netting 12" higher than the first layer?(before the plants reach the taller height)
You can, but I rarely use this netting at all anymore. It was a hassle at the end of the season
I do, it works great
Thank you for shearing the entire process. Where do you get your netting from? Thank you, Nicole!
I ordered it on Amazon- there's a link to it in most of my videos!
OMG, It’s great to get this technique demonstrated but my nerves jangled every time you banged down on that post driver thing!!! But it was helpful, thank you!
No wonder u need netting listen to that wind!!
Ohh, my bad, it’s phototropism, I got my terms confused. Apical dominance is what we break when we pinch back to let the side shoots start to produce. 🤷🏼♀️ lol
Like for you!
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You made me fall in love with glads! Just ordered 90 corms to plant next week here in New Zealand! 😍 Watching all your glad videos to get it right!
They are so gorgeous 💐❤️
Don't forget, the bulbs are different than corms, firms are soaked 1st!
You are the best!!! I watch every video! ❤️❤️
From where do you buy this net?
Hi, Sangeeta! I bought this on Amazon. It is called Hortinova netting.
Great advice to measure before storing for next year’s use.
Where did you purchase your rolls of netting?
Johnny’s
@@FlowerHillFarm Perfect! They are about 25 mins from me!!! Also, I'm literally binge watching your videos as we speak!
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I live in Orchard Park.. I see that Bill's mug!!
Go Bills!
I love your hat it's beautiful on you.
Hi Nicole!😊🌸🌸👋🦋👍🌻
What about Zinnias and Cellosia? Do u use netting for them?
I have not used netting for those.
How do you know so much about flower farming??
Trial, error and research!
Wow - a mini post-rammer! I didn't even know they existed... I have been using hubby's great big one: what a mission raising that thing over my head to get over the top of a t-post!
I set up my first length of netting like you did: I measured 1m between posts and rammed them in...and then found there was too much tension (or not enough), and had to move posts around. I also realised that if my posts weren't plumb, then the tension changed depending on how high I set the netting.
In the end, I drove in one end post, making sure it was plumb, and then threaded the netting over it, sliding it to the ground.
Then I pulled the netting taught widthways across the bed, made a mark, and then drove the other corner post through the netting into that mark - VERY awkward without help, but doable.
After that, I rolled out the netting, and pulled it taught lengthways to mark the ground for the remaining corner posts, and repeated the process for driving them in.
The tension is so much better with a timber batten (or length of plastic conduit piping, bamboo stake, or similar) threaded through each end of the netting; it also prevents the plastic netting snapping against the posts.
I just weave a batten - a little longer than the width of the netting - in and out of the grid squares, and then sit it behind the corner posts.
Extra supports halfway down the bed (or every 5m or so), helps maintain the tension and height for the length of the bed.
The whole process is much faster with an extra pair of hands ;)
Can you use 6”?
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Omg I do that with my coffee mugs too!!!
It's a hard habit to break!
So funny!!! ❤️
Do you save your glad corms for the next year.? Or can you save them... And thus just keep ordering some replenish stock or add an extra single variety or two every year to just keep expanding..?..ps thank you I love your informative videos...your time is much appreciated...
Yes I save and I also expand! Best of both worlds LOL
That is so cool, now I don't have to stake every stinking dahlia like I have done for three years. Where were you and this info? LOL thank-you so much.
Lol- it is easier!