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Indoor Flower Seed Starting Easy Guide: Start t...

September 28, 2022Lisa Mason Ziegler

I built my flower farm on the concept of starting seeds in soil blocks. This is a traditional European method of starting lots of seeds in a tiny space. It’s...

Indoor Seed Starting: Set Yourself up for Success

September 16, 2022Anne Gettys Morgan

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...

Flower Farming 101: Top 5 Tips for Cool Flowers...

August 30, 2022Lisa Mason Ziegler

Tip #1: Know Your Frost Dates Identify not only your hardiness zone, but also your historic average first and last frost dates. Your hardiness zone can only tell you which...

Top 5 Must-Have Flowers Every Farmer Should Grow

July 25, 2022Lisa Mason Ziegler

During our high-production years, we sold our cut flowers to florists, grocery stores, farmers markets, and in subscriptions. Want to know what our all-time favorite must-have flowers are? The ones...

Best Flowers To Grow For Summer Bouquets

July 11, 2022Anne Gettys Morgan

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...

5 Best Books for Starting a Cut-Flower Farm

June 28, 2022Lisa Mason Ziegler

Back before I was a flower farmer, when I was still just a “gardener gone wild” as I like to say, there weren’t very many learning resources available. I started...