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

September 28, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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

Top 5 Must-Have Flowers Every Farmer Should Grow

July 25, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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...