Summer In October Flower Farm Tour
Вставка
- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Normally early in October, we have our first frost, but this year, it's late October and we still haven't dipped below freezing, and all our summer flowers are still going strong! There is an abundance of color and flowers for any time of the year, but to be this far into fall and still harvesting Dahlias, Zinnias and Lisianthus, is unheard of. So come along for this once in a lifetime late October flower farm tour, and catch the last glimpse of our cosmos, celosia, amaranth, marigolds, and many more! Truly a summer flower farm tour in October!
__________
Ian and Serina of YOU CANT EAT THE GRASS feel that every small change can make a big difference to the world we live in. Every garden planted leads to a better future. We hope to inspire and motivate others to make positive changes in their lives by sharing our journey towards greater sustainability as we build our family farm. It's hard work to build a life worth living, and completely worth it!
Contact us at: iancolbeck@gmail.com
__________
SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram | / you.cant.eat.the.grass
Facebook | / you.cant.eat.the.grass
Website | www.youcanteatt...
__________
SUPPORT US
Check out our Merch
you-cant-eat-t...
Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @youcanteatthegrass
Amazon Wishlist
www.amazon.ca/...
Paypal
www.paypal.com...
__________
OUR AFFILIATES (we get a % of sales when you use our links)
West Coast Seeds - a great Canadian seed source!
bit.ly/3u0ydFe
Growing For Market Magazine - 25% off any new subscriptions with this link
growingformark...
Our Amazon Favorites:
Affordable LED Grow Lights
amzn.to/3fZFAo8
Heavy Duty Storage Shelf
amzn.to/3H1U42F
Our Camera
amzn.to/3qZrl99
Our Mic
amzn.to/3u4kCNc
You have huge flower farm i love your flowers they are very beautiful. You are so blessed. Great job. And that cat wow super cute💖💖💖👍🙏🏿
I'm in zone 5 in central Ontario, and my cosmos still look great as well! The bees are loving them :)
The audio in this video was awesome. Much better than the livestreams that I have trouble hearing. Congratulations on a successful year!!
You had a wonderful and blessed season. And the flowers are still so beautiful and useful.
You didn’t post your thanksgiving flower sale… i have been waiting for it, i wonder if you did good on that weekend. Last few weeks of your post are updates etc but no harvest, bouquet making and market.. please post one. Thanks
We are vehind on editing, that's up next
Thank you!!!!
Future “Keep Smilin’ Flower Stand” in Vermont (USA)!!!
Carolyn/Vermont Cat Lady
"Twoooo fullll beds!!!" haha that gave me a laugh
Regarding the abnormally warm October:
Serena: I don't think we'll ever get a year like this again.
Global warming: hold my beer.
Unfortunately, climate instability is the better way of thinking of it. I'm sure there will be many hot dry falls, but they are more likely to follow September hard frosts, and only serve to mess with my perennials and chill hours on my bulbs.
@@YouCantEatTheGrass right. My apple tree had like 5 apples this year because of a weird late frost
Wonderful video…thank you, Serena
Good Morning from Omaha, NE. So inspiring to see flowers this late in the season. We also had a hot dry summer and strawflowers and dahlias struggled then perked up and I have a ton for drying. The eucalyptus looks great too! Enjoying this rare extended flower producing season right there with you. You know the magic is fading when you say TULIP planting 🌷
Well done! Congratulations on a great year! :)
We haven't had a killing frost here yet where I live. I live on sand mountain Alabama zone 7b. There was a week of lows in low 30s but it never frosted here where I am. My annuals in my flower pots are still going. I am shocked.. Y'alls farm looks so good and I know you are thankful for the extra long season and being able to continue selling your beautiful bouquets. God bless y'all 😊
All sented gernaniums are so so so easy 2 grow they cut pieces put in water n theyll root theres so many varieties as well such as rose chocolate with beautiful furry soft leaves with some chocolate colors in leaves
Wow, your farm looks fantastic! You also look very healthy and happy , congratulations on everything you’ve accomplished!
Five thumbs up!
So many beatiful flowers you are growing. Definitely will have to grow so many next year myself.
Maybe, if you train you tomatoes with just one or two stems, the procuction may be even better and easier to manage.
It’s wonderful to see all the blooms so late in the season, Serina. It’s amazing that you haven’t had a frost yet. Such a blessing. Large marigolds are awesome….they grow so big. I had some seeds years ago for white flowers and green flowers. They are way more fussy than the yellow and orange, but they’re gorgeous. Haven’t seen any seeds for a long time. I think you’ll like them if you can find them. Did you do a Thanksgiving bouquet video? Would love to see what you did and know how successful you were. I’m hoping you sold everything you could make. Hoping the frost holds off for you until our American Thanksgiving. We’ve had several days of frost here in zone 6b New England. Not hard enough to kill the Montauck daisies. They’re still going strong and blooming. Tender things are gone. Lovely warm days this week. Hoping we have a mild winter. Heating fuel cost is outrageous. Good luck with your Christmas show. 😊💖🦋🕊
We are working on the Thanksgiving video still. We hope to have it out soon though. It's been a busy month, lol.
White marigolds sound really pretty! I love the orange though the best personally - so fun and bright. Brights are always my favorite, lol
You should cover your fence in hydrangeas by the roadside stand. It'll look great and give you flowers forever, add them to your dried tree.
Most hydrangeas don't like full sun in hot areas.
Paniculata candelabra
@@lwjenson limelights would love it !
This is a great idea
@@y.peffle2802 yess
Well done you two 🎉🌷🌹🌸
Thanks for the tour!
Good morning. Looking good. Love the flowers.🥰🥰🥰🥰
Imagine a wreath made of just all that blue static! ❤️❤️❤️
So good 😍
Serina and Ian your farm looks beautiful. Congratulations on such an awesome year on the farm. You are encouraging people to grow their gardens and that is so important... especially with inflation driving up prices at the grocery store and nurseries.
So happy for you and your bumper crop! Cherish those good crops! We had a hard summer with high temps and humidity. Nothing loved it! 😂 That’s okay! Always next year!🎉
I’m in Minnesota and bring my geraniums indoors for the Winter. Sometimes if by a sunny window I’ll get blooms.
Beautiful
Love your new hair cut.
Oooooooooooo, lucky girl, I’m in PA and we frosted 2 week’s ago 😢, sucks and killed my dalihas! Amongst every other frost tender plant. Good for you guys!
Awesome video. Loving all the tips
The marygold looks amazing at this time of the year!
Thanks for sharing another great video of your fantastic farm, we really appreciate the effort that you put into growing but also the videos.
Eucalyptus (Noooooo) Here in NW Spain it's an invasive pest, it was initially planted as a forestry crop. However it wasn't realized at the time how invasive it can be. Once established it's nearly impossible to eradicate: it's runners can go everywhere, it secretes a 'herbicide' that prevents other species germinating, it makes the ground very acid and takes up to 1000lt water a day. My advice would be contain it in some way to avoid it spreading and keep it away from your lovely flower beds.
May I make another suggestion, this time for the dried flowers.
Hops, they make beautiful long vines that can be made into wreaths and trellises, that when dried make the perfect base to insert the more impressive dried flowers. They also smell great!!
Looking forward to the next video.
No worries at all, eucalyptus does not survive in her area well enough to ever be invasive, much too cold.
Hops would be lovely! And I like the idea of trying it as a dried
Good morning all! ❤
Scented geranium you can cut the plant and propagate it they easily get rooted and can be planted out early they like the cold
Thank you for tonight’s members hang out. I had so much fun and loved getting my questions answered immediately.
Can’t wait to see the next video!
So much info and beautiful flowers...thank you!
Lovely tour. We're having constant rain in my part of South Yorkshire, but our days are still mild too, and where other parts of the UK have had their first frosts, we still haven't. Today is still forecast to be 17c, and tonight 13c, with our lowest night time temp over the next two weeks being 7c. Obviously, that can change, but it's the joy of living in a place with its own micro climate, you just never know what you're going to get. Work with what get's thrown at you, and when it's good, take advantage of it all you can!
We had 10 days or so of frosty mornings early in October, and it’s been crazy warm since!! I covered all my dahlias and they are still going strong (Nova Scotia!). This is a crazy fall season!
I know you're probably trying to look on the bright side, but climate change is doing far more harm than good.
We had a fall like that last year in MB - it was the best!
You guys have the best music…lol I love your farm. I hope to grow a beautiful Mini farm like yours fingers crossed. I have a bunch of seeds, good soil and lots of good homemade compost and lots of positivity.🥰🥰🥰
Johnny's did trials on many plants in zone 5 and they were able to over winter eucalyptus with tunnels, so straw may be possible.
Thank you for nice informative videos
I just love your videos! Thank you for sharing your farming experiences with all of us.❤
It’s warm here in England too. Flowers are still blooming,I’ve had to plant onions and garlic around them and spread some of my compost under and on top of them. I can’t wait to tidy up but I can’t moan because it’s lovely and warm. Lovely video
Another awesome video Serina! Yes our B.C. weather has been incredible here in Victoria as well. Thank you! :)
Great video ❤️ Blessings 💗
Loved this video
Love this video- happy for your dahlia bounty and your whole year of amazing flower sales!
I am so happy to see that you can grow eucalyptus as I am also in zone 5 and I wasn't sure that I could grow it. So excited to try it out!
Omg there's still so many flowers in your farm! I wish you could still sell like at the beginning of the summer. It's a pity people don't buy so much at this time of the year. By the way, I love the video. Thanks for sharing this wonderful tour before the frost!
You planted dahlias!!! :-)😊 love the flower montage
yes you will be getting a warm year again...
Beautiful tour! Thank you ❤
Warmest weather ever! ❤ it looks amazing 👏
Great farm tour,thanks for sharing. Geraniums root easily by cutting, I would do hundred cuttings and over winter them . If you have frost free place , you can do it easily . Thanks for sharing and happy growing 😀.
Waiting for Flower Face!!
very enjoyable. thanks 🙂
You totally have room in workshop to keep the geranium going in pots inside all winter and then plant out in greenhouse and it will be ahead and bigger! Good luck
Beautiful flowers, this late, amazing! Maybe the scented geraniums could use a bit of fertilizer?
Talk to the nursery you bought the lemon scented geraniums from, they could give you tips on taking cuttings and propagating the plants to get a lot more.
I love the scent, and enjoy the others too. I think I remember having a "rose" scented pelargonium. It's fragrance is wonderful.
Re: the overwinters eucalyptus, I've heard stories of people in mid to northern Canada overwintering lavender because the snow insulates well enough that the roots don't go too far below zero. Also, geraniums are SUPER easy to propagate through cuttings. They need lots of light, and they'll keep trying to put out flowers. One of the jobs in our ag-sci class was disbudding the geraniums every day come winters end and early spring.
top video guys
I live in Zone 6a Western NY. LFD 10/15. Last year my last planting of zinnia made it through a light freeze. I pushed the limit into Nov.! And a hard freeze took them out. I am going to frost cover this year . I'm not a farmer.
as always excellent enjoyable video!
Hello you still have so many beautiful flowers are you still selling the bouquet, yes like you said now is cooler at night and some flowers blooming so nice, hard to believe that the winter is coming, take care guys.
I put geraniums in a paper bag in my cool dry attic for a winter. Just shook off the dirt and put them in the bag upside down. When I took them out in the spring, they looked dead. I threw them in a wheelbarrow for the compost pile and forgot about them. A week and a half later, they had greened out!
And what about shading the geraniums a bit so they grow toward the light? I saw that another flower farmer had done that with some flower, not geraniums.
Hello😍
I think I saw somewhere scented geranium is best grown as cuttings. Dig some up to bring inside and take some cuttings during the winter.
Yes you can overwinter the scented geraniums plants, but why don't you also take cuttings in the fall and overwinter them in your growing room? The cuttings grow very easy and you will get a lot of free plants like that
Have you heard of the Save Soil movement before? 🌏🌍🌎🧘♀️You might like it🌿🌿🌿
Your farm looks so good! We had a freak frost last week, got down to 29°F, which is not normal!
Loge seeing your 2nd year eucalyptus. About to put 50 into the ground for next year. Ugh... I was going to cover crop as well but just have not had the time! 😅
Statice Status: Too much! 😂
The "mini strawflowers" are so cute! Are they hardy?
The geraniums should make very good houseplants; they make pink flowers as well.
Please do a top 10 best or worst video at the end of the year, it would be fun to see what ends up on that list
The mini strawflowers are annuals, at least for me in zone 6. They start very easily from seed though, look for winged everlasting seeds. I got mine from Select Seeds I think. They dry beautifully and I use them in wreaths and dried arrangements
it's like in heaven even though i've never been to heaven, i just feel it.
Scentedgeraniums do really well in the house…caution, they can get huge
i took my eucalyptus inside hopefully under grow light will survive. i love the wheat i got from my mulch lol
I'm in zone 6 in Spokane - I kept one geranium in a pot last year in my partially heated (cold) garage - it came back great! I grew more from seed this year, so I'm planning to pull all of them into the garage this year too! I just cut them way back and watered maybe once/month. I watched Wyseguide save his geraniums that way too...and others. I think you can also save them bareroot, but I didn't try that
My mom used to always pull hers, shake the dirt off, put them in a cardboard box in the garage, and then pull them out early spring and replant them with a lot of success. I'm going to give it a try, not much loss if it doesn't work
@@YouCantEatTheGrass that way definitely sounds easier for a large volume of plants that aren't already potted!!
🙋♀️💜🌟🍂
Wonderful video! I wish I was closer and I would come volunteer to help! By the way, down below is a whole bunch of spam and so I've reported it. Anyway, I just love you guys and the wonderful videos you put out. I'm so happy that it's been such a success for you.
There is $10,000 growing in that summer greenhouse lol
Things went sideways for me this week. The plan was to come take advantage of your Summer in October florals. Maybe I'll try next week. Yeah, I am one lucky Florist to have Red Roof Family Farm so close! Be envious ya'll
It is crazy how they are just keeping going
Yes many jealous persons around the world. LOL
Is scented geranium a citronella? Super looks like it!
Can you please do a video about perenials only? I don‘t mind to wait till winter! I live in zone 5-4 and try to grow some flowers that survive the winter. Thank you very much for concidering😊
Do you ever save seed ? Or always buy in new seed.
Scented geraniums grow so well in my mediterranean climate that they have an unfortunate reputation as ugly plants that survive in vacant lots and abandoned gardens. Nonetheless, i have been trying a few varieties, and i recommend the tall leggy types for good stem length.
Do you collect seeds from your crops? Marigolds are the first plants I grew as a child , love them.
Beautiful flowers! I hope you're able to harvest all that you want before it freezes. We've already had our first frost here. Now our temperatures went from freezing to heat 70- 80 degrees. This has me worried about what type of wimter we'll have. They say every 20 years we go through a change of weather. I wonder if this is it?
Thanks for the tips!
Are we going to get a Thanksgiving video?
We filmed it but have been focused on a deadline for the documentary we filmed this summer. Next up is the Thanksgiving video though
Is it possible to cut the beds with hedge trimmers and then just pick up the flowers?
Straw flowers and status could probably survive it.
If you cut close to the ground the stems should be long enough to use.
Seeing how you chopped the rubekia (😳) gave me the idea.
The hedge trimmer makes a bit of a mess of things. I think it would be a lot easier to cut by hand so you could put the clumps down in an orderly way for picking up and sorting. We are filming a video about harvesting dried flowers out before the frost comes, and I'm cutting my statice with a sickle knife I have for veggie cutting, and it's working quite well, so hopefully we will have that released in a week or 2 for you to check out
As politely as possible, but it is foliage not foilage.
Things just roll of the tongue a different way in Lake Country. Those dang dan dillions and free shavacadoos!
I love you and your flowers are beautiful and I'm glad you've had a good year, but I don't know if I can bear to continue listening to foliage being mispronounced.
Aren’t the cardoon leaves a little spikey for a bouquet?
It's a spineless variety
You are busy and no video of any?? How could you do that to us!!!!
Great Video ! I'm so sorry but what do you mean when you say the flowers are status?
It's the name of the type of Flower- statice
I have dahlias in my garden in Germany as well but I'm not having any luck with them in vases. Is there any trick to it? I only get 1-2 days of vase-life.
Their Vaselife sucks. Some decorative varieties do better then others. But they are more of a special event flower
Do you think the rebcekia will overwinter again?
It should - a few varieties are borderline for me, but the yellow varieties, and especially Indian Summer came back really well last year. I think the plants eventually fissle out though, so worth letting them self seed into a bit of a patch if you are growing them in a home garden, rather then having 1 plant that just keeps getting bigger and bigger, like how goldstrum variety grows
What spacing do you do for sunflowers? To get the small ones etc.. I want to divide my seeds into groups of different spacing for different sizes but it's my first year growing flowers
What kind of scented geranium is that ? Citronella?
Yup and the variegated dark one, I think its rose of attar
Did you get your frost yet? We (just south of you in the OkanOgan 😉) finally got our in just the last couple days, it was just a light one, but enough to kill off thw basil and zinnias.
Still no frost. We have a really good angle to our property to cook off the frost right as it begins with the sun coming up. But I don't think it will work much longer with it getting darker and darker. It's pretty amazing to get this far though
Wow the flowers look great and I love the dancey music too..makes me soo happy! 😄💐🌼
WHY do people say FOILAGE Instead of foliage??!!! Gahhhhh!!!! It drives me bonkers!!!!!!!
Scented geraniums are extremely easy to strike via cuttings. Cut at a leaf node, strip the leaves (keeping one or two sets of leaves above) & start in soil mix. You can let the cutting dry for a bit before sticking. No need to use root dip. Keep shaded for a day or two, then give the cuttings as much light as possible. Cuttings will start easier in February or the growing season, slower but will still readily start in winter. Look for fungal & bug issues if grown in crowded conditions.
yes! Do your own cuttings and save some money since you're planning on experimenting with pulling up some plants anyway. Good luck!
Great instructions! Thanks!
I pulled my pelargonium in, kept it in minimal light (lacking grow lights) and didn't over water it. It not only grew again, I saw lots of flowers too this year.
Geraniums and pelargoniums are Mediterranean plants, need enough heat to grow.
Excellent instructions! Im trying my hand at lavender propagation. Sometimes my green thumb turns black! 😢😂
@@julietbowden6189 😂🤣same here. I can't seem to grow rosemary to save my life. I can grow all kinds of herbs and veg. I don't know why I can't get rosemary right. I won't stop trying though.