I was going back and forth on whether the tulip workshop was worth the money for me. After watching your video I’ve decided it was. Fingers crossed that next Valentine’s Day I will have tulips. Absolutely love your videos. You are an impressive young lady. Thanks for the push.
Fill the exterior of the fence with shrubs to offer a wind screen as well as reduce weed seed blow ups. Ninebark, forsythia, viburnum, limelights, etc. Then you'd have tons of extra stems plus the benefits of hedging!
Yes! I’m so glad to hear this. I think your engineering background will help you loads. Tulip forcing is both an art and a science and there’s a lot of “problems” unique to each grower’s situation to solve for. I wish you the best of luck!
Very interesting! I literally considered forcing tulips last spring. Still trying to get my flower feet under me, but definitely looking to get setup for spring 2024. Sooner if I can.
thanks for making this video! im in an apartment so im still on the fence, but I do plan to get a spare fridge to cool my bulbs. Im excited to most likely join their next class and learn about different infrastructures that ppl are using!
You’ll still get a lot out of it and I would consider hydroponically forcing in your situation! It’s cleaner and conducive to a small space especially if you have a spare fridge 😁
How exciting to watch your bulb journey, I have been watching you for awhile and love watching your flower farm from the beginning. I also bought your ranunculus last night and excited to see how they turn out.
Hey love your channel it's helping me out so much! For weed suppression coming into your growing area I've heard from the permaculture people who do no till they border there fields with comfrey. I'm definitely going to give this a go along with silo tarps and cover crops. Hope this helps :)
Aww, thanks for the kind words. Thanks for the advice. I also did hear about comfrey. I am going to get an edger tool and hope that helps with the borders!
@@bareflowerfarm I'm also excited to see what else you grow for the bumper months besides tulips. You have totally sold me for the bulb class you talk about ❤️🌷We are in VA and it definitely gets so hot in the summer months I've worked so hard at times in the summers and have taken myself out with heat exhaustion. 😅
Thank you for your thoughts on this course. I follow both of the growers on IG and considered taking the course when it was first offered. The sustainability part is always difficult. I am a small scale farmer/florist and during the Winter buy in flowers from the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market. They are a co-op of growers on the West Coast. The issue that has kept me from enrolling is that you're still buying in thousands of tulips bulbs from the other side of the world in Holland...they were doused with anti-fungal and other chemicals before leaving...then transported thousands of miles in refridgerated containers to the US. So they aren't that much different from a sustainability standpoint then other imported flowers. Don't get me wrong, I did purchase bulbs this Fall to go with my anemones and ranunculus in the Spring. But I did feel a bit guilty like when I use peat to start my seeds. Thinking as a long term investment it might be better to have a greenhouse that is heated during the Winter? Especially if you can use a renewable energy source like wind, solar or even hydroelectric power which we have a lot of in my area. Not trying to be critical at all...I'm not purist by any means and have Amazon packages on my porch like the next person. Thanks again!
This is a really great and well thought out point you bring up. This also did occur to me. The only way I was able to “rationalize” this was breaking down the carbon footprint of a bulb shipped from holland vs a fully grown stem from Europe or South America. Because a crate does fit 500 bulbs, I rationalize the carbon footprint is still meaningfully lower than a full stem. It’s definitely not the most sustainable option as you point out- the bulbs are sprayed and treated and it ultimately goes into our compost 🤦🏻♀️. It was hard for me to think of other winter alternatives. I don’t want a greenhouse nor do I want to heat a structure with propane. I have hope that our west coast tulip farmers can scale to a point where then it makes sense for us to buy from them. If there’s enough demand, the beauty of capitalism (as much as it works against sustainability) is that someone will find a way! But glad you are asking such a great, important question!! It annoys me when people paint themselves as growing sustainably bc they don’t spray or are local. It’s so much than that!!
What I think about in regards to Tuliips is pulling the whole plant at harvest. I've heard that the second flower is weaker, but it makes me wonder how all of the bulbs are produced in the first place.
So I think when producing bulbs, they let the flower grow to full maturity and then mow it all down so that the bulb can regenerate. That’s my basic understanding 😁
Wondering if you know if you can stack the crates until the tulip bulbs germinate to avoid squirrels or rats to dig them up??? Not sure if they need light. Would unstuck once greens piked up
So yes! That is the beauty with crates, you can stack them while they are rooting. Unfortunately, somehow the small critters are STILL managing to get in. I think one of them chewed through the crate!!!! I had about a dozen bulbs that were nibbled on and the crates were covered with tarp 🤦🏻♀️
One question I have is, where do you envision selling the forced tulips? Is this just a Facebook marketplace venture or do you have another outlet that you are working towards.
I haven't yet figured this out. Because I am forcing on a relatively small scale (1k bulbs), I think I will go through the social media/facebook marketplace outlet. But the plan for spring 2023 is to go the florist route or buckets to customres!
I was going back and forth on whether the tulip workshop was worth the money for me. After watching your video I’ve decided it was. Fingers crossed that next Valentine’s Day I will have tulips. Absolutely love your videos. You are an impressive young lady. Thanks for the push.
Yay! i'm so glad to hear this. Best of luck and see you in the TTW fbook group!
Fill the exterior of the fence with shrubs to offer a wind screen as well as reduce weed seed blow ups. Ninebark, forsythia, viburnum, limelights, etc. Then you'd have tons of extra stems plus the benefits of hedging!
You have inspired me! I am an engineer and would love to do this on a small scale on the side to clear and clean my mind. Thank you!
Yes! I’m so glad to hear this. I think your engineering background will help you loads. Tulip forcing is both an art and a science and there’s a lot of “problems” unique to each grower’s situation to solve for. I wish you the best of luck!
@@bareflowerfarm Thank you🌷 I need more art and less technology in my life....or at least technology to grow something beautiful🌷
Very interesting! I literally considered forcing tulips last spring. Still trying to get my flower feet under me, but definitely looking to get setup for spring 2024. Sooner if I can.
thanks for making this video! im in an apartment so im still on the fence, but I do plan to get a spare fridge to cool my bulbs. Im excited to most likely join their next class and learn about different infrastructures that ppl are using!
You’ll still get a lot out of it and I would consider hydroponically forcing in your situation! It’s cleaner and conducive to a small space especially if you have a spare fridge 😁
I have been thinking about this topic a lot recently so thank you so much for this. As always, super useful and well thought out video.
How exciting to watch your bulb journey, I have been watching you for awhile and love watching your flower farm from the beginning. I also bought your ranunculus last night and excited to see how they turn out.
loves it :) thank you !!
Hey love your channel it's helping me out so much!
For weed suppression coming into your growing area I've heard from the permaculture people who do no till they border there fields with comfrey. I'm definitely going to give this a go along with silo tarps and cover crops. Hope this helps :)
Aww, thanks for the kind words. Thanks for the advice. I also did hear about comfrey. I am going to get an edger tool and hope that helps with the borders!
@@bareflowerfarm I'm also excited to see what else you grow for the bumper months besides tulips. You have totally sold me for the bulb class you talk about ❤️🌷We are in VA and it definitely gets so hot in the summer months I've worked so hard at times in the summers and have taken myself out with heat exhaustion. 😅
Thank you for responding 🙂
Thank you for your thoughts on this course. I follow both of the growers on IG and considered taking the course when it was first offered. The sustainability part is always difficult. I am a small scale farmer/florist and during the Winter buy in flowers from the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market. They are a co-op of growers on the West Coast. The issue that has kept me from enrolling is that you're still buying in thousands of tulips bulbs from the other side of the world in Holland...they were doused with anti-fungal and other chemicals before leaving...then transported thousands of miles in refridgerated containers to the US. So they aren't that much different from a sustainability standpoint then other imported flowers. Don't get me wrong, I did purchase bulbs this Fall to go with my anemones and ranunculus in the Spring. But I did feel a bit guilty like when I use peat to start my seeds. Thinking as a long term investment it might be better to have a greenhouse that is heated during the Winter? Especially if you can use a renewable energy source like wind, solar or even hydroelectric power which we have a lot of in my area. Not trying to be critical at all...I'm not purist by any means and have Amazon packages on my porch like the next person. Thanks again!
This is a really great and well thought out point you bring up. This also did occur to me. The only way I was able to “rationalize” this was breaking down the carbon footprint of a bulb shipped from holland vs a fully grown stem from Europe or South America. Because a crate does fit 500 bulbs, I rationalize the carbon footprint is still meaningfully lower than a full stem. It’s definitely not the most sustainable option as you point out- the bulbs are sprayed and treated and it ultimately goes into our compost 🤦🏻♀️. It was hard for me to think of other winter alternatives. I don’t want a greenhouse nor do I want to heat a structure with propane. I have hope that our west coast tulip farmers can scale to a point where then it makes sense for us to buy from them. If there’s enough demand, the beauty of capitalism (as much as it works against sustainability) is that someone will find a way! But glad you are asking such a great, important question!! It annoys me when people paint themselves as growing sustainably bc they don’t spray or are local. It’s so much than that!!
What I think about in regards to Tuliips is pulling the whole plant at harvest. I've heard that the second flower is weaker, but it makes me wonder how all of the bulbs are produced in the first place.
So I think when producing bulbs, they let the flower grow to full maturity and then mow it all down so that the bulb can regenerate. That’s my basic understanding 😁
Wondering if you know if you can stack the crates until the tulip bulbs germinate to avoid squirrels or rats to dig them up??? Not sure if they need light. Would unstuck once greens piked up
So yes! That is the beauty with crates, you can stack them while they are rooting. Unfortunately, somehow the small critters are STILL managing to get in. I think one of them chewed through the crate!!!! I had about a dozen bulbs that were nibbled on and the crates were covered with tarp 🤦🏻♀️
Hi Jessie I just got my ranunculus today and already put them in water. Thank you so much.from Pamela
Yay!!! Good luck with them and please lmk how they grow!!
Really interesting vid!
One question I have is, where do you envision selling the forced tulips? Is this just a Facebook marketplace venture or do you have another outlet that you are working towards.
I haven't yet figured this out. Because I am forcing on a relatively small scale (1k bulbs), I think I will go through the social media/facebook marketplace outlet. But the plan for spring 2023 is to go the florist route or buckets to customres!