You are so generous with your advice and it is very much appreciated.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much and I am really glad you are enjoying the videos.

This video came just at the right time for me. I’ve never really tried direct sowing but I feel a lot more equipped now with the knowledge you have provided in this brilliant video. Thanks so much again for sharing so much of what you’ve learned over years, it’s very appreciated and inspiring. ❤

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊 I hope you give direct sowing a go this year. It’s really useful to try and then see what you think compared to the indoor sowing you did. Then you can decide what you like best for future years growing x

You are so generous to share all your knowledge, thank you 💐😍

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Diane, I am glad you are enjoying the videos this year x

So much good info packed with no wasted words. I live in Seattle, Washington, USA, zone 8b so this info is very relevant to me. Thanks.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching. I am glad you enjoyed it, especially as your in zone 8b too. You will have flowers at a very similar stage to mine just now. We have had a cold spring so far so things are a little behind. Looking forward to some sunnier days hopefully in May.

This is so helpful and informative, thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge. I've been wanting to direct sow but been quite nervous about doing it! So this is so helpful and I'm going to give it a go!

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Helen, it’s definitely worth trying direct sowing as it really makes life later on in the season a lot easier when there are so many other jobs to do. You can get some great flowers at the end of the summer and start of autumn from a direct sowing. Good luck! 🌱

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Thank you for this informative video, Catherine. I might direct sow some of my seeds now the our weather is cooler here.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching this one 😊 I hope you have some good success trying direct sowing.

I appreciate you sharing what can be directly sown; however 70% of the seeds you mentioned I have never heard of, so I was googling some names and Daucus is considered invasive here in Seattle. AKA: Queen Anne’s Lace. It says not allowed to sell or any part of the plant. I am also zone 8b Western Washington State. I am going to try the snap dragons and mix with some sand. Thank you for this tip😊

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

2 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks so much for watching. That is interesting about not being able to grow daucus where you live as it’s seen as invasive. It does self seed very readily so if growing as a cut flower you need to make sure you cut the faded flower heads before they set seed at the end of the season if you want to prevent self seeding. It does make the most amazing cut flower and lasts well in a vase. I hope you get on well growing your snapdragons this year.

Thanks for such a thorough video! I started some phacelia indoors a few days ago, but now I’ll give them a try directly sown.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jeanne, thanks for watching this week. Yes phacelia should do well for you from direct sowing too. You will have to let me know how you get on and which way indoors or outdoors worked better for you later in the year x

Very good

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching 😊

Great video so so helpful

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, I am glad you enjoyed it 😊

Thank you!

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching 😊 I am really glad you enjoyed it.

@rosansoya2152

Жыл бұрын

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm your videos are very useful😁thank you to share your experience

Thank you for this timely guidance! Your video is very well presented and has been of immense help to my planning this year. I'm a rookie so help is imperative. 😅 LOL

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

3 ай бұрын

Good luck with your seed sowing! I am really glad the video helped. It’s always tricky remembering to keep on sowing the new batches to get flowers at the end of the season as well as early summer.

Great information.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Anne. I am glad you found the info on how I direct sow helpful x

Thanks for this. I must try sowing Daucus & Gypsophilia Covent garden outside as I haven't had any indoor success with them

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gladys. Yes they are definitely both worth trying a direct sowing of and in the early autumn too outside to try and get through the winter. My best daucus has definitely come from a direct sowing in late August.

@gladysmcconnell6822

Жыл бұрын

@Cloudberry Flowers - Flower Farm and Garden Thanks Catherine. My Ranunculus that I grew as per your instructions in the autumn have flower buds on them. The frost here in Northern Ireland wasn't as bad as Scotland!

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

That’s exciting about the raunuculus. I hope you get lots of flowers to enjoy soon. I am glad you didn’t get as bad frosts as we did here in the winter. I thought we were maybe past them but next week the forecast says minus 3 overnight. I am a bit worried about the tulips!

This video was so helpful to me because I'm new to growing all of these flowers but I'm trying it out this year. Now I know more about it so I'm more confident it'll work out well. Thank you! 😀 Do you put certain flowers next to each other or just plant them randomly? I have a big border up against a fence, and I'm trying to plant them from tallest in the back to shortest in front, but it's hard for me because I've never seen a lot of these flowers in person to know how big they get...

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Hello, thanks so much for watching and good luck with growing your flowers this year. That is a really good question as different flowers do grow to different heights. You get to know these after a few seasons growing in your own garden with your own conditions but initially need to be guided by the final heights on the seed packets. I do plant similar heights next to each other. So for example daucus, ammi, cornflowers and corncockles will come out at similar height so if I plant them in the same area I can put the support netting at a level that suits all of them. They are tall so I would plant them at the back of a border if they were going there. Phacelia, salvia and nigella would be shorter in height for me so I would put them in a different area or further forward in a border. My aim is by the end of this year to have dedicated beds for direct sowing as I rejig things around. At the moment it’s better than it has been and I have got some dedicated space. I had a mix of perennials and annuals in my beds before so have been moving the perennials to their own beds to create annual only ones I will be able to sow directly into. It’s a bit of a work in progress!

@adrianteresa98

Жыл бұрын

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm That makes allot of since. I am so excited to get experience with these new flowers. I've mainly been growing vegetables the past 15 years or so, but just recently got interested in growing more flowers. Gardening is the best, and with people like you (and Monty Don😁) to guide me, I feel confident in giving it a go! Thank you 😊 I look forward to learning more from you and seeing how your garden comes along this year...

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

I will need your advice on vegetables! This year I want to try growing some veg in pots for us to eat. The beds are all taken over by flowers but I would love to try growing some again. I have started some tomatoes and courgettes so far and have strawberries and raspberries in pots as an experiment too.

Hello from Lori in 6b Saint Louis, Missouri, USA! Super helpful. I'd love to ask you a couple questions. How many hours of sun does your phacelia get? And when you plant or sow successions (of any plant), where do you grow the succession? Do you sometimes have to plant/sow a succession next to already mature and blooming plants? Or do you always have planned, unplanted beds for successions? This is the first year I am doing succession plantings, but probably just sunflowers and zinnias. I will save half of that garden for successions, but all of the rest of my gardens are planted up with cool flowers so I don't have room to succession sow any cool flowers. Oh well. It's just such a wonderful adventure, gardening is. All the best to you dear.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Hi Lori, thanks so much for watching this weeks video. Hours of sunshine are 6+ if the phacelia is in the top flower patch which is south facing. 4-5 hours with the phacelia I have in the north facing patches but it steadily increases as we move from spring into summer and the sun is higher in the sky so there is less shade in those front patches. In the Scottish Borders weather can often be dull, rainy and cloudy which greatly reduces the sunshine hours our plants get. Despite this cool flowers do thrive here. I grow the succession plants in amongst the plants still going in full bloom. For example tulips are in just now. They get pulled bulb and stem so that frees up bed space for later successions. I will have a patch of autumn sown cornflowers a bed just now. After they have flowered for several weeks and production is declining they will get composted and new successions put in that area of the bed. It might be right next door to some flowers that are still flowering well though. The past several years succession sowings have always just gone where I can fit them in between other plants. This year I have been creating some beds where the narcissi were and removing all the perennials from my annual beds and giving them there own dedicated space. From next year the idea will be to have enough beds to have some free to be able to succession sow into. I hope your succession sowings work out well so you get sunflowers and zinnias all the way through until the frosts in autumn. It is fantastic when succession sowing works out!

I don't understand why UK gardeners struggle with slugs. In the US we have safe effective slug bait that's very effective. I couldn't grow hostas without it.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

Жыл бұрын

Hello Kim, thanks for watching. That’s interesting. Yes we spend a lot of time in the UK thinking of different home made slug deterrents such as beer traps, coffee grounds, crushed eggs shells, sheep’s wool, going out at dusk to find them etc and don’t always use slug bait. Which brand of slug bait do you find most effective in the US?

@dbnkan

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for responding. The product I use is Natura. It's safe for pets and wildlife and can be used up until the day of harvest.

@Lotsielots

Жыл бұрын

We don't like slug pellets over here in the UK. They are not good for hedgehogs and birds etc. We only would use it in pots as a last resort. We prefer less chemicals in the garden, more wildlife. If our plants get eaten, then they get eaten.

@Lotsielots

Жыл бұрын

Plus slugs and snails are creatures too and shouldn't have to die a horrendous poisoning death.

@00BeesKnees00

Жыл бұрын

I think the UK gets more rain than the US providing a moist environment that slugs thrive in. I think this year the US may see more slugs with the heavy rain we're getting, wiping out drought in most parts of the country.