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I just discovered your blog and I am so sorry to hear you were unable to continue your association with your florist customer and the subsequent fallout. Perhaps with time, people will return to your flower business. I also suffered from PTSD from a nasty car accident with a moose, my husband was driving and fortunately we survived. I wish you the best of luck and you continue to flourish! Hang in there!

Your flowers are beautiful. Be proud of what you’ve created. ❤

Your flowers are so beautiful, great quality and variety. You are so creative and resourceful, wonderful you are already finding your new path. Congratulations to you!

So strong of you to be so open Love your videos so much! ❤️ Hope you continue to push through and your business prospers So sorry to hear about all the drama and stress 😔

I have been thinking of you and hoping things were going well. Small towns can be interesting and frustrating. I lived in a super small town of about 200 so I get it. You got this and will come out shining in the other in. All the flowers looked amazing.

“It is not the critic who counts….the credit belongs to the man in the arena…. An awesome famous quote by Theodore Roosevelt. In her book “Daring Greatly” Breneé Brown opens with it. Post whenever it works for you. Sorry to hear about the rough time. Your flowers are off the hook gorgeous. Hang in there 😘 signed fellow PTSD sufferer

I can relate to your story 😢 but remember we are dealing with beauty that makes us stronger and happy 😊 Keep doing it 🎉 from Ontario ❤

Take pride in getting through the attack on your integrity with your head held high. In the short term it is nothing short of overwhelming, in the long term, you will be able to smile, knowing you made it in-spite of the roadblocks thrown your way. That is not easy to do. Many people would have crumbled. It is the difference between approaching life as a victim and approaching it as a warrior. Strength of character is something to be admired.

Chas looks so handsome! WOW has time flown by. I missed your smiling face so much and am happy that you checked back in. Challenges can define you or make you stronger. They can define when you label them failures and YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE. God proved that when you made this financially ok year. You obviously have grown stronger and learned many lessons that no one can teach to you before they happen. I can't wait to learn even more from you as you work through different eyes and thoughts. It will be an exciting new adventure as you obviously have grown in ideas and lessons and kindness. I don't know if I could be as kind when describing what had to feel devastating to your dreams but your love of gardening has won out and you're planning ahead and you're helping us to have that same determination by example. Small towns are caring and cruel - but I wouldn't live anywhere but in a small town for sure. I can feel your strength coming through and look so forward to hearing from you again. The flowers I saw were GORGEOUS as are you, my friend!

Muy buen trabajo

sending you hugs

Sending you hugs.

awesome video did yas happen to see any elk

What time of year was this ? 21ft TJ and I don't like skinny water with no nylon.

Mine were total garbage this year. We had a virus.

Dr Elaine Ingham has some good videos on preparing a soil sample slide, this way you are comparing apples to apples when looking at the biology. How do you like your microscope camera, I really need to get one. Subscribed, Stay Well!!!

That's so interesting to see the differences under the microscope.

Growing Ranunculus are apparently hardy to -5c and can handle a couple of hours of -6.66c. I have not tested that theory, but your -2.5c should therefore easily not be an issue.

Hi Kristy, do you pinch your snapdragons?

What a year! Sheesh 😢. Thanks for sharing your list. Crossing fingers for 2024

Why don't you like to plant your anemones with more foliage on them?

That cat is gorgeous!! The parsley looks so rich and healthy. A sunburn! WOW lucky you. It;s nice to see some progress and you and your pets, too. Have a great weekend.

Ranunculus corms look amazing!

Great success and thanks for sharing! I experimented with tulips as well. I put my bulbs in 6 pack longer narrow packs and placed them in a container. They grew long roots and bloomed. No damaged to bulbs. Some farmers in Europe after forcing continued growing bulbs in shalow trays buried in soil to have their own planting materials. Also in Europe, growers receiving free workshops on forcing tulips from their bulb suppliers. We should start asking suppliers for forcing protocols. It should not cost thousands for us to learn if we spend money purchasing bulbs 😊

Love to hear about your inventions! Successful or not, you are learning! and building knowledge can lead to some unexpected success. Your refrigerator tray incubators are amazing. Yea for Chas successes, also. How exciting watching him grow, too! Ranunculus look like tiny bunches of bananas or dried up freakoid spiders. Nature is unbelievably interesting and you get to delve in to it every day. Lucky you! I love to listen to all you pass along even when I know I won't be using that knowledge down here in Florida, it is still so interesting!

Thank you for sharing! I lost 500 anemones corms during sprouting. I started ranunculus and anemones at the same time and in same condition. I have purchased the smaller size of corms for both to save money. It’s been working with ranunculus in prior years. This is the first year I started smaller corms of anemones. 500 out of 700 rotted in pre-sprouting. None of smaller ranunculus rotted .I have used the same new potting soil, same moisture lever, temp, ph, light, and new sterilized containers.The rotting of anemones corms occurs in the same variety’s same vendor . So , I lost 5 verities of 100 corms, but two verities sprouted without any rotting. So my conclusion: 1) small 3/3 and3/4 sizes of some varieties of anemones might be more susceptible to rot during sprouting.2) corms have been overtreated with something, 3) soil disease in some crop from supplier. My solution: focus on sustainability and purchase of larger corms for starting to raise probability of my success 😊

Informative - interesting - ambitious but realistic plans! It will sure be interesting to follow all this! I ADORE my greenstalks as I currently have garlic, green onions, lilies, and spinach growing, with a sprinkling of regrown for the basil. Chas looks more handsome as time goes on and more driven to follow his dreams - takes hard work but he looks up to it. Nice to see you!

I love that your son is involved. Healthy soil definitely = less disease and pests. Enjoyed this!

There is no such thing as talking too much 😊. You go girl!

I totally concur that healthy soil = healthy plants = minimal bug pressure. Earwigs use my dahlias to sleep in, but they don't chew on them at all. I spend the winter amending my soil so that it's ready to go come spring, something I can do here on Vancouver Island.

Yay. So glad to see you

I only recently found your videos when i was researching zone 2 gardening... watching this video gave me the chills just remembering our recent deep freeze... have an awesome day!

This should be a million subscribers channel. Period! Ohh, please keep sharing! So much great info coming from a new generation farmers 😊

I found you because of my flower searches I think. I am finding your content fascinating and frankly, refreshing. I’m in zone 9 but I don’t think it’s such a leap. In a few days it’s forecast to be 70f. End of January! We used to cover things this time of year. No telling how my plans will work out at this rate. I’m learning that being cat-like in our responses to the swings of the weather is maybe more important (most important?) I’m not a flower farmer but I’m following you gals trying to learn as much as I can. Thank you so much for sharing your experience

You are definitely a BOSS - here we are complaining about our -17(F) wind chill and you're like "Oh, it's colder than Siberia... Lets go collect eggs" 😅 Even the Guineas we like "nope, we're just going to be quiet". Chores still have to get done though, and I wouldn't change a thing - love our life 😊

This fall I covered part of my field with a silage tarp so I can get in early to plant and it not be a muck hole

9 per square foot works out to one every three inches in both directions, is that correct, because if it is, that's the spacing I will use this year. Last year I did 6" and that was definitely too far apart. Here on Van. Is. the ranuncs bloom from mid May to the beginning of July because of our Juneuary.

Thanks for your list and informative video. With your climate, I bet foxglove and crimson basil would do well.

Kristy…you are amazing…how hard you work, plan, come up w creative ways to farm…your food, flowers, maximize all your efforts to cover costs, offer interesting & appealing combos for sale and are thoughtful and willing to try new things with hopes to grow your business. I have much admiration for you. Thx for taking the time to share your top money makers/ sales and some of the factors like weather, etc. and how those impacted the outcomes. May this upcoming year be especially rewarding and profitable for you and your family. Blessings, Susan

Just discovered you! Very interesting! So many of the flower farmers are located in zone 8. I am in zone 4 and am always so discouraged when I know I can't grow like that! I am amazed at what you are doing in zone 2 and that you have florists that will buy everything you can produce! The bit about trying to establish perennial sedum 'Matrona' (so easy for me in my zone 4) that I never even think about it. You might find sedum 'Autumn Joy' more floriferous and vigorous. I get that the dark foliage of 'Matrona' might be more interesting. I don't see you growing dahlias. I prestart under cover in mid April. Blooming by July. It is all about the number of hours of sunlight. You might have a lock on that-- 14-16 is the sweet spot. (a PhD of Horticulture/neighbor told me that. The small decoratives might be a real good type for you. Have you tried astilbes? They need ample (so much) water, but. The tip on plastic in the raised bed is interesting.

Stay warm

Kristy…you always come up with “out of the box” ways to redeem miscellaneous/ random food items. The pierogis were a good example of this. In the end, they looked like a tasty side dish.

Stay warm!

What - no chicken sweaters - haha. I can imagine chicken sweaters hinder their ability to fluff up causing them to be even colder. We're a little warmer than you, we only went down to -11c with a wind chill of -16c on Vancouver Island and that is way colder then we are used to.