Last year my daughter kept begging to cut my zinnias & roses for bouquets to give to people. Grandparents, a friend at the nursing home, etc. I decided to plant her a cutting garden this year. Flowers make people happy, and we’ve run into too many unhappy people recently I thought this would be a fun way to share joy. So we’ve already bought cosmos, dahlias, daisies & zinnias (my favorite) & plotting out sections of the yard. ❤ Planted hollyhocks last year & 8 new rose bushes so this year we’ll have plenty to choose from. 🌸🌹💐 Love seeing your farm!
Love hearing that you do this! We love bring flowers to our local care homes every week and a few times a season we'll bring in buckets of flowers so they can have their own little "farmers market" and residents to make their own bouquet.
Amazing list! This year is the first time we're taking our garden serious and although we're not selling our flowers, so relieved to hear that we got Lisianthus, Sunflowers, Zinnias, Lavender AND Dahlias! They looked amazing in your video clips and now it's even harder to wait and see how ours come in, so exciting!
🇨🇦 i love listening and learning from you both. I grew dahlias two years in a row and I was very disappointed. The flowers were not very vibrant and attracted so many earwigs. I do love my sunflowers though
I'm surprised roses didn't make the list. Are roses not as popular anymore? Are they just more expensive to grow? Thanks for the great video. I love you guys! And I'm new to cut flowers just last season but I've been gardening for 20 years. I love learning all things gardening.
Great list, although for me I was sad that celosia didn't make the cut... it's one of my favorites. The beauty and diversity of colors, shapes, sizes, types, etc. just knock me out! I bet if you did a wall of dried celosias your customers would love them too.
Loved hearing your list. While zinnias aren’t my personal favorite, the big double benary’s will get mistaken as dahlias by some of my customers so I will definitely keep them in my field! 😉
Thank you so much for making this video… It helps a lot for tips and suggestions, I’m a farmer and it’s nice to see other farmers out there share their success too.
How do you keep weeds out of the flowers? Are they planted in fabric? Do you plant seed in holes in fabric? I guess my question really is how do you make a commercial flower bed. I have 30 acres and want to grow flowers 🤔
Do you dig up the tubers of the Dahlia in winter and replant them in the spring? I live in Wisconsin just over 5 hours away from you. I would love a way to keep them in the ground as I really don't have the space to over-winter them. Your farm is beautiful
*eyes the gomphrena on the table* Please don't say gomphrena, please don't say gomphrena... First thing they mention? Gomphrena! My least favorite cut flower of all time 🤣
Last year was my first year starting flowers under grow lights. The only flower that I had NO success starting was gomphrena. I even had an easy time with Bells of Ireland!
Thank you for sharing this was interesting. My top sellers are also zinnias and sunflowers but most profitable ones per square foot (m2) are lisianthus, aster, daucus dara, setaria and fountain grass.
Do you see much of a difference between your highest revenue generating flowers (highest sales) and most profitable? For me there's some overlap, but a lot of differences. I also like to calculate profitability per square foot, which advances some things like lisianthus and snaps, and demotes suns and zinnias. It tells me what I should grow more of - a bed of 3,000 lissies being way more profitable than a bed of 800 suns.
Never thought of it that way, but I see how it is the more accurate way to look at profitability. Just beginning my journey here and deciding if I can make it work as a profitable business. I am curious, if you or anyone is willing to share, what is an acceptable percentage of overhead. For example if you sold $100,000 in flowers for the year, what would an average net percentage be in general without YT revenue - just straight flower farming?
@@firehorsewoman414 Generally speaking, profit margin (as a percentage) decreases as revenue goes up. I have 8 part-time people on payroll, with revenue a good bit north of 100K, but my margin is only about 30%. If you don't have employees, your margin is probably at least 50%, and likely 60-70%. I will add that pretty much all of my growth in revenue and in margin over the past 5 years has been a result of making better choices about what to grow and how much.
@@BD-dr1hw might I ask how many acres you are farming to require 8 part-time employees? Guessing when you say part-time - 20 hrs a week? Do you think high schoolers would be sufficient helpers. Also wondering where you are growing? I am planning this venture for NE Texas - I think weather is going to be a huge stumbling block. Right now, my list consists of: ‘what I want to grow”, “what my market wants”, and “what Texas weather will let me grow”
@@firehorsewoman414 I am in west central Minnesota (Prairie Garden Farm). I actively grow on 3 - 4 acres. I have had good luck with students (mostly!) and have had as many as 3 at a time. My employees work whatever hours work for their schedules, typically anywhere from 10 - 30/wk.
Last year my daughter kept begging to cut my zinnias & roses for bouquets to give to people. Grandparents, a friend at the nursing home, etc. I decided to plant her a cutting garden this year. Flowers make people happy, and we’ve run into too many unhappy people recently I thought this would be a fun way to share joy. So we’ve already bought cosmos, dahlias, daisies & zinnias (my favorite) & plotting out sections of the yard. ❤ Planted hollyhocks last year & 8 new rose bushes so this year we’ll have plenty to choose from. 🌸🌹💐 Love seeing your farm!
How lovely! ❤️
Love hearing that you do this! We love bring flowers to our local care homes every week and a few times a season we'll bring in buckets of flowers so they can have their own little "farmers market" and residents to make their own bouquet.
@@PepperHarrowthat is a wonderful idea.
Can you do a top most profitable filler flower for bouquets video?
Amazing list! This year is the first time we're taking our garden serious and although we're not selling our flowers, so relieved to hear that we got Lisianthus, Sunflowers, Zinnias, Lavender AND Dahlias! They looked amazing in your video clips and now it's even harder to wait and see how ours come in, so exciting!
1) amaranth globe
2) Lizianthus
3) sunflowers
4) zinnias
5) lavender
You two have such a relaxed, confident, soothing presence. No wonder you’re successful! Blessings to you! ❤
🇨🇦 i love listening and learning from you both. I grew dahlias two years in a row and I was very disappointed. The flowers were not very vibrant and attracted so many earwigs. I do love my sunflowers though
I just love your channel. You are so sweet And kind. I'm learning so much from you . thanks for taking your time and teaching us
I'm surprised roses didn't make the list. Are roses not as popular anymore? Are they just more expensive to grow? Thanks for the great video. I love you guys! And I'm new to cut flowers just last season but I've been gardening for 20 years. I love learning all things gardening.
Now I feel encouraged to start Lisianthus.
I can’t see any netting, flowers all standing upright!
I am so looking forward to a lisianthus video. I am going to be growing them for the first year this year, but I feel quite intimidated by them.
You have a beautiful farm! Thanks for sharing. Anne
Gomphrena is difficult to harvest. Half on a stem droop. How do you prevent this?
You have to wait to harvest them when the stems are mature, giving them the wiggle test.
@@PepperHarrowevery time I see someone mention the “wiggle test” I giggle. LOL
Great list, although for me I was sad that celosia didn't make the cut... it's one of my favorites. The beauty and diversity of colors, shapes, sizes, types, etc. just knock me out! I bet if you did a wall of dried celosias your customers would love them too.
What type of lavender do you grow
These are all so beautiful!
Loved hearing your list. While zinnias aren’t my personal favorite, the big double benary’s will get mistaken as dahlias by some of my customers so I will definitely keep them in my field! 😉
Wonderful list! Thank you! Jenn, I love the shot of you holding the sunnies! 🌻
Thank you so much for making this video… It helps a lot for tips and suggestions, I’m a farmer and it’s nice to see other farmers out there share their success too.
Please can you tell me how do you store Dahlia during the winter? Thanks!
I never knew globe amaranth could be a cut flower..we had them in my mother's backyard.
How do you keep weeds out of the flowers? Are they planted in fabric? Do you plant seed in holes in fabric? I guess my question really is how do you make a commercial flower bed. I have 30 acres and want to grow flowers 🤔
Do you dig up the tubers of the Dahlia in winter and replant them in the spring? I live in Wisconsin just over 5 hours away from you. I would love a way to keep them in the ground as I really don't have the space to over-winter them. Your farm is beautiful
Awesome video! I love how prolific Lisianthus can be. On an non-flower related note, I love your sparkly hairband! 💖
Where do you buy your Dahlia tubers from? Also, have you grown them from seed too?
I appreciate all your videos! How many dahlia tubers do you plant each year? What is your row length?
How do you ship your dahliasso far away? I am new to growing them and I was under the impression you can not shop them.
What varieties of Dahlias do you find the best in each color?
This was a very interesting video. Thank you!
I love your voice miss .thanks to both for the vedios❤
where can I get the seeds for all the flowers you mentioned in this video
Everything is so beautiful!
hello, Im from Mexico I liked a lot your video.
*eyes the gomphrena on the table* Please don't say gomphrena, please don't say gomphrena... First thing they mention? Gomphrena! My least favorite cut flower of all time 🤣
Lol! It IS a pain to harvest
Last year was my first year starting flowers under grow lights. The only flower that I had NO success starting was gomphrena. I even had an easy time with Bells of Ireland!
We’ll try to do a seed starting video on gomphrena
Nice! So pretty!!! Ty
Lisianthus are one of my favorites. Nice video! Hello from Alaska
Thanks Valerie!
Thank you for sharing this was interesting. My top sellers are also zinnias and sunflowers but most profitable ones per square foot (m2) are lisianthus, aster, daucus dara, setaria and fountain grass.
Is that your video on the sunflowers standing back up. How do you get them to do this? Iss there hydrator in the water?
They naturally do this in water.
I have always been intimidated by dahlias because I keep reading how short of a vase life they have.😢
They're my absolute favorite flowers and I love growing them. Try it out
Think you have the wrong sunflower video linked
We’ll check it
Love it!
I’ve read that deer love sunflowers, how do you deal with them?
We have to protect them with an electric fence. We have a video we’ll show on this. It’s long overdue!
Love videos like this!
Thanks!
I thought dahlia vase life is just to bad to be in the top 6.
It’s about profitability not necessarily best cut flowers
How many succession of zinnia do you grow in a year?
I think we address this in the succession video.
Do you see much of a difference between your highest revenue generating flowers (highest sales) and most profitable? For me there's some overlap, but a lot of differences. I also like to calculate profitability per square foot, which advances some things like lisianthus and snaps, and demotes suns and zinnias. It tells me what I should grow more of - a bed of 3,000 lissies being way more profitable than a bed of 800 suns.
Never thought of it that way, but I see how it is the more accurate way to look at profitability. Just beginning my journey here and deciding if I can make it work as a profitable business. I am curious, if you or anyone is willing to share, what is an acceptable percentage of overhead. For example if you sold $100,000 in flowers for the year, what would an average net percentage be in general without YT revenue - just straight flower farming?
@@firehorsewoman414 Generally speaking, profit margin (as a percentage) decreases as revenue goes up. I have 8 part-time people on payroll, with revenue a good bit north of 100K, but my margin is only about 30%. If you don't have employees, your margin is probably at least 50%, and likely 60-70%. I will add that pretty much all of my growth in revenue and in margin over the past 5 years has been a result of making better choices about what to grow and how much.
@@BD-dr1hw I know that every situation will be different, but that helps. Thanks.
@@BD-dr1hw might I ask how many acres you are farming to require 8 part-time employees? Guessing when you say part-time - 20 hrs a week? Do you think high schoolers would be sufficient helpers. Also wondering where you are growing? I am planning this venture for NE Texas - I think weather is going to be a huge stumbling block. Right now, my list consists of: ‘what I want to grow”, “what my market wants”, and “what Texas weather will let me grow”
@@firehorsewoman414 I am in west central Minnesota (Prairie Garden Farm). I actively grow on 3 - 4 acres. I have had good luck with students (mostly!) and have had as many as 3 at a time. My employees work whatever hours work for their schedules, typically anywhere from 10 - 30/wk.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Do you sell the sunflowers you use for photography backdrops as well?
Love your videos.
Jen has such a soothing voice.