How To Plan A Cut Flower Garden
How To Plan A Cut Flower Garden
One of the best things you can do to have a successful cut flower garden is to make a good plan. There’s a Dutch saying about good planning being half of the work. Well, in the case of flower gardens, it’s absolutely true.
In this video we go through the five main steps we always take to make sure we have a solid plan for the growing year ahead. I talk about making a map of your garden, planning a list of flowers to grow, finding a safe-to-plant date, figuring out when to plant your flowers, and keeping a list of
garden jobs.
This is what works for us. Hopefully you’ll find some useful tips for your own flower growing adventures.
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BOOKS mentioned in this video:
Seed Sowing and Saving: https://amzn.to/38243ni
The Gardener’s A-Z Guide to Growing: https://amzn.to/388SlaJ
ONLINE SEED SOWING INFORMATION ALSO AVAILABLE AT:
Johnny’s Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com/
Floret Flowers: https://www.floretflowers.com/
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This is fantastic thank you, and such common sense x
Love your geeky reference tools!!!
Very helpful! Thank you so much 🙂
Oh my Gosh can i just THANK YOU! For sharing your excel planting guide. I spent hours trying to create a spreadsheet for cash sales and credit sales, number of visits, etc… you ladies are amazing.🌹
This is an amazing resource! I am all about over preparedness and this is the first video about planning a cut garden that speaks to this level of organization. Thank you, thank you, thank you! As I’m planning next year’s cut flower garden I have rewatched this four times already! I’ve created my own to scale layout in excel, I have a master spreadsheet planning approximated seed start, move to greenhouse, pot up, last frost, transplant, hopeful blooms, and first frost date. Other information, planning spacing, noting if they need to be pinched, color palette, how many, staking system, row covers, and anything else’s. My seeds have been organized by start month, or direct sow month. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you so much!
What can I sow the month of Sept please
As a beginning flower gardener, I can’t thank you two enough for the helpful tips! Thank you for so freely
Sharing your wisdom with us! Love from zone 7b!
I love how organized you are!! You are so pretty as well, such a warm and inviting smile!
Id love to see a video on how you decide on the flowers, as in how many LARGE flowers you order, how many sm, medium flowers, how many FILLER flowers, etc.
Oh my goodness you are my Gardening Shero armed with Excel!!
This is one of the most helpful videos for flower farming I’ve seen! THANK YOU!!
What zone are you located?
The lists, the organization. This is exactly what I needed👏🏻👏🏻
I am having trouble germinating celosia. Any tips? Anne
Absolutely love this, it’s so helpful. Thanks
So helpful thank you!
Thank you! Great information!
Im just like you! I have spreadsheets for soil requirements, growing temps, etc. as well!
Never mind . I heard you said 6 a zone . I am in 7a and new gardener. Just researching.
I love your video!! Thank you for all of the great information!! 💚🌱🌸
Spreadsheets are giving me Virgo energy lol. I love how organized you are 👏🏻
You won a thumbs up when you broke out the spreadsheets lol
OMG, you make lists and use Excel! I love that. Do you share these docs?
Love youuuuu. Lol thank you for everything.
I have to learn this. Excellent Video💖💖💖 i love flower trees or fruit trees. I have to get used to plants. Thank you for this.
Can you post your monthly ‘to-do’ list somewhere? I tried to pause and read but I couldn’t. 🤣
Wonderful info. Working with my granddaughter to create a cutting garden. Appreciate the help organizing our planning.
This is a wonderful and very informative video. Thank you so much!
Nice video. The claim about the full moon being colder is an urban legend though. There’s no influence of the moon phase on temperature, nada. I’m a physics PhD.
The spreadsheet got you a thumbs up!
I’m a total Excel geek so I’m loving your organization style!
Awesome strategy. Thank you so much for sharing!
Very helpful! I am a spreadsheet nerd as well! However I’ve been keeping a giant sketchbook in the form of a “garden journal”
Quelle organisation !!!…. Bravo !!!….
Hi from NC thanks
Do you have a template of the chart that you input the information about your flowers from the book? I’d love to purchase that from you! I’m very new to all of this and love how organized you are this would be extremely helpful!
I love your spreadsheets!!! It’s giving me wonderful ideas, thank you!!! Great tips!
😲 I LOVE IT! Oh shit I never thought I’d LOVE to see such spreadsheets n organization. I personally SUCK at it but started up recently so I can better handle my garden but to also start dabbling in cut flowers. PLUS I can download your spreadsheets ? Oh crap you’ve just helped this adhd brain out so much💯🌻
Why don’t you direct seed?
Amount of lists and charts that i do is enormous)) I do and them reorganise them, they ended up very similar to yours. I love idea od exel map of a plot, im gonna borrow that)))
You could sell those planning tools as a digital package!! …I’d buy it 🙂
thanks!
Oh wow, Hello. I am glad I found this (your video). Very scary on all the info I should be gathering. Thank you so much, I would rather know now than not till I have started planting.
You are super organized. I might use some of your templates. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
New Subscriber Here! 🌼 I live in NE Ohio, Zone 5b. 🌸 I am really trying to get my organization down before the Spring hustle begins! I can’t wait to start seeds!
Me from India want to work with flowers,want to settle their , love,date and marry there…. If anyone is interested please reply me as soon as possible. Thanks and regards
Thank you so much! This really helped get my lists going. First year, getting started, overwhelmed.❤😁
Hi, i’m also a zone 6a, maybe 5b but I’m located in Quebec. In january there is still a lot of snow on the grown, also in febuary. I’m wondering how I can put low tunnel in the ground in january and planting my ranunculus in febuary!
Also, I love your videos, it really helps me out!
I totally want your nerdy information spreadsheet 😍