May 2022 Flower Farm Tour
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Thank you for watching my latest video! My name is Sarah and I am a flower farmer in East Yorkshire, UK. I am in my 6th season of flower growing and I love sharing the highs and lows with you here on UA-cam!
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I have been watching your channel for maybe less than a year. I have seen you grow in confidence each time you film. Keep it up! I have started to learn more about regenerative farming thanks to you. I don’t know how you have the hours in the day to accomplish all that you do. I have been dabbling in flower farming on my changeling land in zone 4 USA with numerous deer for over 20 years (while rearing four children). I am envious of your mild climate but find inspiration from you and your fellow UK flower farmers and am speaking out about the US consumption of peat. I am trying to spread the word about going peat free. My area of studying in college was forest resources and have been a self taught gardener since I discovered violets in my parents lawn when I was young. Well enough about that. About the problem with aphids on the lupine.
We had a summer cottage in Maine where lupine grew along the roadside etc. My thoughts and some experience is when grown in rich soil and as a crop they are more prone to aphid attack. My suggestion is to grow lupine in hedgerow/in multi species beds with low fertility. Best of luck for this growing season.
Im rewatching your monthly videos as a resource for planning my next year's garden so thanks! Very cool that you have a video team❤
For the aphids, just dissolve some dish soap, spray on them m, rinse after about 1/2 hr. Works for me.
You might try neem oil to combat your aphids. It must be the sort containing Azadirachtin. 2 tbsp neem + 2 tbsp pure Castile soap in 1 gallon of water. Spray 3 times at weekly intervals.
For smaller infestations 1 tsp of each in 1 pint of water.
Happy sowing, growing and harvesting
You are a very busy lady.
Sorry to hear of the aphids on the lupins. They are gorgeous in bouquets! ( ... that's the lupins, not the aphids, lol!)
This year I have alot on the go and seem to have figured out how to germinate Bells of Ireland, which is exciting for me. However, I had a death in the family this spring, and my seedling neglect cost me 90% of my Lisianthus 😢
Oh well, as you say, live and learn. 😁
I am Chelsea chopping my sedum for the first time this season. My hope was for more useable stems and less flopped over plants for those that stay in my landscape. Glad Im not the only one thinking of using this technique on them.
If you Chelsey chop you could start more plants from the cuttings and they would have thinner stems. We’re having a very hot spring here in my zone 8 garden in the US. 90 degrees days when I have so much yet to plant is really making getting all my garden jobs finished very difficult. To see you in a coat in the rain makes me envious. Things are looking so good in your gardens. Thanks for sharing.
Love your farm tours Sarah! Lots of china asters just sprouting, snapdragons, larkspur are budding up. My nemesis is bupleurem, have tried 5 batches and not one germinated. My real success this year was bells of Ireland. Germinated it in a wet paper towel!
Great video thank you 🌸I’m growing quite a few things for the first this year. Just planted out my stocks and I praying they flower! 😩🌸
Hello friend good morning
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Thank you for yout good sharing
Hi I’m a flower farmer in Lancashire I can’t get my straw flowers to germinate this year either. I have found the most fantastic antirrium that started flowering in June last year and have continued to flower ever since they are amazing and are about to give me another year or flowers . Love to keep in touch to compare note’s .Jackie Armer
I LOVE the dark purple Lilac! I have only seen them a light purple..well, i saw a buttery yellow once, but I love the dark one.
Great video.Lots of helichrysum but only 3 Zinnias.Farm looks great best wishes for a great season.
just so beautiful
Hi, I'v just started watching your videos - very informative, thank you. I am in awe of what you are doing. I am growing from seed for the first time this year and have had quite good success. I have about 50 more helichrysum than i have space for and I am only over the border in West Yorkshire. Let me know if your interested... happy to send some pics. x
I use the sedum when it’s green too as filler. This way you space out when you use it 💚
Also look into parasitic wasps for aphids as a bio control. They lays eggs inside the aphids making the mummies until they hatch. It doesn't wipe them out completely but it is a great control.
So much on the go! I’ve sown snaps three times this year and now have a few, scabious sown twice and strawflower germination was very patchy. However, my first success with larkspur this year. You just can’t tell. That amaranth looks astonishing!
Looking forward to the tv episode! Your garden looks beautiful already❤.
Hi from France 🇨🇵😉
As long as your helichrysum seeds are fresh, they will germinate in just a few days :)
My artichokes look like your lupins... Covered in aphids. Generally speaking this year there are more than last though. Roses, elder, blue thistle are heavily visited
Wonderful tour. I started a bunch of my own seedlings this year they are doing good I dont mind the rain, now if only it would quit snowing and warm up so I can get them outside. Last frost date is supposed to be this weekend. 🇨🇦
Thank you so much for this vlog. I would definitively be interested in watching the french documentary as a I am French... could you please what variety the geum is? It's gorgeous!!
Just started this video, but I seem to remember starting Verbena hastata from cuttings. You might want to give that a try.
Beautiful farm
I found an infestion of aphids on my Sweet peas, it's time for then to end now. craspedia had poor germination rate! The cold is holding everything back!
I’ve been wondering about the hedge! It looks gorgeous.
So sorry about your lupines, I have my fingers crossed that the concoction helps!!
I’m so happy with the hedge! Can’t wait to see how it grows over the season.
Hello love your farm update! Just wondering do you direct sow or transplant your nigella? Looks beautifully lush
I Chelsea chopped my sedum last year for the first time. Can definitely recommend it.
Iv had good luck with strawflower germinating but still trying toget ranunculus mastered! I get a handful to grow but the majority rot before they sprout with direct planting going to try again with pre sprouting see if that's better do you pre sprout yours?
helichrysum overcrowd seed on a meat container then transplant each on individual container.
Hi, can you share the recipe for the aphid repellant? My lupines are dying :( Love your videos, greetings from Belgium
I used 2tbsp of washing up liquid and 6 drops of clove oil per litre, it definitely weakened them a little bit but they’re still there in large numbers!
I get annoyed having to wash all my plastic cell trays. Considering doing soil blocks instead. Do you have any quick tips on cleaning your cell trays/pots? I call them "garden dishes" lol
I never wash my cell trays!
@@bloomandgray That's the best tip yet! LOL What the heck have I been doing? hahaha
What is that spinning thing in the area by your heat tunnel and does it deter birds or what does it do for the garden, if anything?
I heard dish soap mixed with water works well for aphids or do you have ladybugs that you can release?
Hello and thank you for this video! Can you tell me the name of the oregano you grow for filler?
What are your top favorite ornamental grasses for bouquets? Cheers!
Can you share your friends aphid concoction? Please and thank you. My Vanessa Belle Rose gets them sometimes so I would love to have on hand 🌺
I used 6 drops of clove oil and 3/4 tblspoons of washing up liquid in a litre of water, the original recipe also had grape seed oil in it but I left it out
@@bloomandgray perfect thanks for sharing 💜
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What is “Chelsea chopping” the sedum?
I will be doing a video on this in the next week or two 😁