#297: Daniel Schavey, Ask A Flower Farmer (May)

This episode features a takeover of our popular “Ask a Flower Farmer” live Q&A session on Instagram. Daniel Schavey of Petal Pickers Flower Co. in Greenville, SC hosted this one. Daniel is an 8th-year flower farmer growing in zone 8a and an alumnus of most of The Gardener’s Workshop’s online courses. Here, he answers questions on topics such as Mother’s Day flowers and pricing, ordering plugs vs. starting from seed, purchasing and saving ranunculus corms, and so much more!

Other topics covered: hydroponic tulips, when to plant dahlia tubers, tuberose growing tips, peonies for Mother’s Day, perennial phlox, starting small with flower farming, ranunculus harvest stage, starting zinnias from seed, shipping flowers, foliage and greens for Mother’s Day, sunflower seed starting.

Mentions

⁠⁠⁠Petalpickers.com⁠⁠⁠: fresh flowers shipped nationwide, dahlia tuber and fall bulb sales

Follow on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠Petal Pickers⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Gardener’s Workshop⁠⁠⁠

⁠Book, The Cut Flower Handbook ⁠

⁠⁠Book, Postharvest Handling of Cut Flowers and Greens⁠

⁠High Tunnels from Farmers Friend⁠

Lisianthus plugs: ⁠⁠Ball Colorlink⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Farmer Bailey⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Leo Berbee⁠⁠

⁠⁠Online Courses⁠⁠ from The Gardener’s Workshop

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The ⁠⁠⁠Field and Garden Podcast⁠⁠⁠ is produced by Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-winning author of ⁠⁠⁠Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers⁠⁠⁠, owner of ⁠⁠⁠The Gardener’s Workshop,⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Flower Farming School Online,⁠⁠⁠ and the publisher of ⁠⁠⁠Farmer-Florist School Online⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Florist School Online.⁠⁠⁠ Watch ⁠⁠⁠Lisa’s Story⁠⁠⁠ and connect with Lisa on social media!