Last year my daughter kept begging to cut my zinnias & roses for bouquets to give to people. Grandparents, a friend at the nursing home, etc. I decided to plant her a cutting garden this year. Flowers make people happy, and we’ve run into too many unhappy people recently I thought this would be a fun way to share joy. So we’ve already bought cosmos, dahlias, daisies & zinnias (my favorite) & plotting out sections of the yard. ❤ Planted hollyhocks last year & 8 new rose bushes so this year we’ll have plenty to choose from. 🌸🌹💐 Love seeing your farm!

@babieangels

Жыл бұрын

How lovely! ❤️

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

Love hearing that you do this! We love bring flowers to our local care homes every week and a few times a season we'll bring in buckets of flowers so they can have their own little "farmers market" and residents to make their own bouquet.

@firehorsewoman414

11 ай бұрын

@@PepperHarrowthat is a wonderful idea.

Can you do a top most profitable filler flower for bouquets video?

1) amaranth globe 2) Lizianthus 3) sunflowers 4) zinnias 5) lavender

Now I feel encouraged to start Lisianthus.

Jen has such a soothing voice.

I never knew globe amaranth could be a cut flower..we had them in my mother's backyard.

Amazing list! This year is the first time we're taking our garden serious and although we're not selling our flowers, so relieved to hear that we got Lisianthus, Sunflowers, Zinnias, Lavender AND Dahlias! They looked amazing in your video clips and now it's even harder to wait and see how ours come in, so exciting!

Please can you tell me how do you store Dahlia during the winter? Thanks!

I'm surprised roses didn't make the list. Are roses not as popular anymore? Are they just more expensive to grow? Thanks for the great video. I love you guys! And I'm new to cut flowers just last season but I've been gardening for 20 years. I love learning all things gardening.

I just love your channel. You are so sweet And kind. I'm learning so much from you . thanks for taking your time and teaching us

Thank you so much for making this video… It helps a lot for tips and suggestions, I’m a farmer and it’s nice to see other farmers out there share their success too.

Wonderful list! Thank you! Jenn, I love the shot of you holding the sunnies! 🌻

Love videos like this!

Love it!

You have a beautiful farm! Thanks for sharing. Anne

Everything is so beautiful!

Thanks!

I am so looking forward to a lisianthus video. I am going to be growing them for the first year this year, but I feel quite intimidated by them.

Great list, although for me I was sad that celosia didn't make the cut... it's one of my favorites. The beauty and diversity of colors, shapes, sizes, types, etc. just knock me out! I bet if you did a wall of dried celosias your customers would love them too.

Awesome video! I love how prolific Lisianthus can be. On an non-flower related note, I love your sparkly hairband! 💖

Nice! So pretty!!! Ty

hello, Im from Mexico I liked a lot your video.

This was a very interesting video. Thank you!

Loved hearing your list. While zinnias aren’t my personal favorite, the big double benary’s will get mistaken as dahlias by some of my customers so I will definitely keep them in my field! 😉

I appreciate all your videos! How many dahlia tubers do you plant each year? What is your row length?

Thank you for sharing this was interesting. My top sellers are also zinnias and sunflowers but most profitable ones per square foot (m2) are lisianthus, aster, daucus dara, setaria and fountain grass.

Lisianthus are one of my favorites. Nice video! Hello from Alaska

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Valerie!

I love your voice miss .thanks to both for the vedios❤

Do you dig up the tubers of the Dahlia in winter and replant them in the spring? I live in Wisconsin just over 5 hours away from you. I would love a way to keep them in the ground as I really don't have the space to over-winter them. Your farm is beautiful

How do you keep weeds out of the flowers? Are they planted in fabric? Do you plant seed in holes in fabric? I guess my question really is how do you make a commercial flower bed. I have 30 acres and want to grow flowers 🤔

How do you ship your dahliasso far away? I am new to growing them and I was under the impression you can not shop them.

Where do you buy your Dahlia tubers from? Also, have you grown them from seed too?

Last year was my first year starting flowers under grow lights. The only flower that I had NO success starting was gomphrena. I even had an easy time with Bells of Ireland!

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

We’ll try to do a seed starting video on gomphrena

where can I get the seeds for all the flowers you mentioned in this video

Is that your video on the sunflowers standing back up. How do you get them to do this? Iss there hydrator in the water?

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

They naturally do this in water.

Love your videos.

Gomphrena is difficult to harvest. Half on a stem droop. How do you prevent this?

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

You have to wait to harvest them when the stems are mature, giving them the wiggle test.

@firehorsewoman414

11 ай бұрын

@@PepperHarrowevery time I see someone mention the “wiggle test” I giggle. LOL

I’ve read that deer love sunflowers, how do you deal with them?

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

We have to protect them with an electric fence. We have a video we’ll show on this. It’s long overdue!

Do you sell the sunflowers you use for photography backdrops as well?

What varieties of Dahlias do you find the best in each color?

Do you see much of a difference between your highest revenue generating flowers (highest sales) and most profitable? For me there's some overlap, but a lot of differences. I also like to calculate profitability per square foot, which advances some things like lisianthus and snaps, and demotes suns and zinnias. It tells me what I should grow more of - a bed of 3,000 lissies being way more profitable than a bed of 800 suns.

@firehorsewoman414

11 ай бұрын

Never thought of it that way, but I see how it is the more accurate way to look at profitability. Just beginning my journey here and deciding if I can make it work as a profitable business. I am curious, if you or anyone is willing to share, what is an acceptable percentage of overhead. For example if you sold $100,000 in flowers for the year, what would an average net percentage be in general without YT revenue - just straight flower farming?

@BD-dr1hw

11 ай бұрын

@@firehorsewoman414 Generally speaking, profit margin (as a percentage) decreases as revenue goes up. I have 8 part-time people on payroll, with revenue a good bit north of 100K, but my margin is only about 30%. If you don't have employees, your margin is probably at least 50%, and likely 60-70%. I will add that pretty much all of my growth in revenue and in margin over the past 5 years has been a result of making better choices about what to grow and how much.

@firehorsewoman414

11 ай бұрын

@@BD-dr1hw I know that every situation will be different, but that helps. Thanks.

@firehorsewoman414

11 ай бұрын

@@BD-dr1hw might I ask how many acres you are farming to require 8 part-time employees? Guessing when you say part-time - 20 hrs a week? Do you think high schoolers would be sufficient helpers. Also wondering where you are growing? I am planning this venture for NE Texas - I think weather is going to be a huge stumbling block. Right now, my list consists of: ‘what I want to grow”, “what my market wants”, and “what Texas weather will let me grow”

@BD-dr1hw

11 ай бұрын

@@firehorsewoman414 I am in west central Minnesota (Prairie Garden Farm). I actively grow on 3 - 4 acres. I have had good luck with students (mostly!) and have had as many as 3 at a time. My employees work whatever hours work for their schedules, typically anywhere from 10 - 30/wk.

How many succession of zinnia do you grow in a year?

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

I think we address this in the succession video.

Think you have the wrong sunflower video linked

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

We’ll check it

I have always been intimidated by dahlias because I keep reading how short of a vase life they have.😢

@jazzyg530

4 ай бұрын

They're my absolute favorite flowers and I love growing them. Try it out

I thought dahlia vase life is just to bad to be in the top 6.

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

It’s about profitability not necessarily best cut flowers

*eyes the gomphrena on the table* Please don't say gomphrena, please don't say gomphrena... First thing they mention? Gomphrena! My least favorite cut flower of all time 🤣

@PepperHarrow

Жыл бұрын

Lol! It IS a pain to harvest

Thanks!

@PepperHarrow

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!