• Flower Farming - Gardening - Seed Starting

    How to Do a Basic Seed-Starting Setup

    January 20, 2024 - By 

    When you first get into flower farming or cut flower growing, you quickly realize that you almost surely are going to need to learn how to start your own plants from seed. Not only is it more economical (at least at first) to start your own seeds, but sometimes logistically, it’s one of the only ways to get the specialty kinds of plants you need for cutting. For example, where we live, there are only a couple places nearby where you can buy plants at all — our local Walmart (the only chain grocery store we have in our whole…

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    Flower Farming - Gardening - What's Blooming Monthly

    What’s Blooming in Utah in April?

    July 20, 2023 - By 

    If you’re trying to plan a cut flower garden or flower farm in Utah and wonder what kinds of blooms you can expect in April, then this post is for you! This is also a good list to keep in mind if you’re planning a wedding or other event in Utah and want to use locally grown flowers for that. Some important things to consider: Note: There may be affiliate links to books and products mentioned. April Cut Flowers Hyacinths I think hyacinths are overrated as a landscape flower, but I love them as a cut flower. They have a…

  • Flower Farming - Gardening - Small Business Owner

    How to Start a Small Flower Farm [Part II]: Choosing Seeds + Planning Your Year

    September 5, 2022 - By 

    This is part two of a five-part series all about how to start a small flower farm. If you haven’t already, make sure you check out part one about formulating a business plan and choosing your planting sites first, which you can find HERE. Note: There are affiliate links to the books and products mentioned in the series. Deciding What to Plant So you’ve selected your farm site, decided roughly how many square feet to plant, and decided on a business strategy. Now comes the fun part — deciding what to plant! Now, it is imperative that you have a…

  • Flower Farming - Gardening - What's Blooming Monthly

    What Flowers Are Blooming in Utah in June?

    July 17, 2022 - By 

    In milder parts of the world like the UK, the month of June is one of the most abundant when it comes to what’s flowering and what you can harvest in a cut flower garden or farm. In Utah, however, June is a notoriously tricky time for flower farmers and home gardeners alike, simply because you’re past the spring blooming bulbs like tulips, but your summer flowers just aren’t there yet. While there are obviously additional flowers than these that can bloom in June, I’m restricting my list exclusively to flowers that are good for cutting. I’ll start with the…

  • Flower Farming - Gardening

    5 Things I’ve Learned About Flower Farming This Week

    March 7, 2021 - By 

    Whew, it’s been a busy week! It’s crazy how fast this dream of doing a “little flower farm side thing” has evolved over the past few weeks. Basically what started out as a simple idea for how to gain back some of the money for my cut garden hobby has now grown into a legit business venture, and I’m putting in the hours to prove it. Not only do I need to do the actual WORK of producing flowers for selling, but I’m also having to learn a ton about marketing and business and all sorts of fun things. I…

  • Our Garden Failures and What We Learned From Them
    Failures + Lessons Learned - Gardening

    Garden Failures + What We’ve Learned // Vol. I

    May 13, 2020 - By 

    When I was 12 or so (and until I was 16 or 17), I wanted to be a landscape designer–I took out a subscription to Birds and Blooms magazine, I joined the National Gardening Association, and I asked for (and received!) thick gardening reference books for birthdays and for Christmas. I was responsible for our family’s vegetable garden one year (at my request), and I also tried my hand at sowing some flower seeds (cosmos–which thrived–and bachelor buttons, which are literally still coming up every year even now, almost two decades later). In my limited experience during those few years…