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Celebrating Celosia
If there’s one flower that loves the heat of summer it’s celosia. Everyone should grow it – from the home gardener looking to add a unique flower to their garden to the cut flower farmer looking for a cash crop to wow your florists and farmer’s market...
My Flower Farming “Insurance Policy” – Floral Support Netting
Whether you’re a home gardener or a cut flower farmer, you’ll need some form of support to grow beautiful cut flowers with straight stems. You’ve made it this far with your flowers – starting from seed, growing your seedlings into healthy transplants, and...
The Magic and Beauty of Farm Tours
This summer, Lisa is hosting an open garden and warehouse day on Saturday, June 24, 2023. If you have the opportunity to visit, it will be one of the best decisions you will ever make for yourself as both a gardener and a flower farmer. It’s magical and beautiful to...
SEED STARTING: What Seeds Need
“Why didn’t my seeds germinate?” When Lisa answers this question, she uses three words repeatedly. They are: Heat. Light. Moisture. For me, learning how to put heat, light, and moisture together to grow healthy plants from seed was frustrating and filled with lots...
How I Made Use of No-Till Micro-Scale Farming Techniques on My Traditional Flower Farm
If you’re excited to be planning your new flower farm this year or planning a new year for your existing flower farm, take a look at the TGW on-demand workshop, The No-Till Micro-Scale Flower Farm, created by Jonathan and Megan Leiss of Spring Forth Farm. This...The Most Important Farming Tool: Your Mind
At the end of each season on our farm, I realize that the most important tool isn’t my latest gadget or the new deer fence we installed this summer. Nor is it our new tiller attachment. It’s not even our tractor or bed maker, which I’m still learning to master three...
Flower Farming Basics
Learning never ends. As I write this post, we just experienced early low temperatures of 34-36 degrees at the end of September. This weather toasted our last flowers and brought our 2022 season to an abrupt end. Three years of weather notes show that this is a...
Indoor Seed Starting: Set Yourself up for Success
How do you start a plant from seed indoors? Have you checked out Seed Talk? This new TGW Field & Garden podcast series hosted by Lisa along with TGW’s Seed Manager, Layne Angelo, answers the most common seed starting questions received from our customers. Whether...
Best Flowers To Grow For Summer Bouquets
Bouquet Builders that Beat the Heat We’ve just passed the longest day of the year – Summer Solstice. Here in western North Carolina the heat is on from now until fall frost, and I’m not just talking about humidity and daily rising temperatures. Summer...
Succession Plant Your Way to Flower Farming Success
In 2018, I had the incredible opportunity to attend Lisa’s on-farm Flower Farmer Boot Camp to learn what it takes to become a successful flower farmer. Those two days would change my life forever but what really blew me away was the number one thing Lisa told us we...