Flower Farm Tour September { & What Flowers I've Been Loving This Season}

[@gailst55]

Thank you for your effort in producing a youtube. I so enjoy your commentary and watching your flower garden grow. It is always special to watch a project evolve - thank you again.

[@ECole-le7we]

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[@angelacollins1343]

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[@theirishcailin333]

​@angelacollins1343 unless you watch regularly, videos won't come up. I subscribed to lots of channels but they never come up as haven't watched in ages

[@ECole-le7we]

@@theirishcailin333 and @angelacollins1343 Yes, I subscribe to her channel, and my notification bell is on to receive all notifications. Moreover, I have watched almost all of her videos. The problem for us, her viewers, is that she posts videos very infrequently going back at least a couple of months. Perhaps she has other things going on, or perhaps she has decided to step away for her own reasons. I certainly do not know. Most successful content creators say that in order to build a channel, you must post often and regularly. If and when she returns, I will watch; because I enjoy her videos and learn from her.

[@ryleesblooms]

Zone envy is real and sometimes I wish I lived somewhere that I could get a break from flower farming. We are in zone 10b. We grow 365 days a year and hearing people say they get excited for winter and a break always bums me out. 😂

[@LINativePlantConservation]

i love your living pathways and no dig and no plastic weed suppresser and everything youre doing, its different and more natural, i love it

[@LINativePlantConservation]

Please record your planning to show us, I’d love to follow along and do my own planning with you. Thank you!!

[@LINativePlantConservation]

love love love your videos

[@damdekmyhomeដំដែកផ្ទះខ្ញុំ]

Great video love seeing your video

[@countrygardensns9262]

Love seeing your videos. You grow some different flowers than I can grow here in Canada. Our winters are much colder. I’m amazed at what you call hardy annuals, and start them in the autumn. Can’t do that here! I tried overwintering eucalyptus last year, that didn’t work. But I’ll be starting it every year now to dry. They don’t get really tall, maybe 40 cm. Good luck with your thinking and planning. Cheers from 🇨🇦

[@annmarie2964]

The tuttifruiti bouquets are wonderful. Such a delightful color combination.

[@kathypope3010]

Thanks for another great video. I enjoy them all but this one was extra special good. Can't wait to see what happens with the cover crop on the new field.

[@albertmo1722]

Hi, I truly enjoyed your farm tour! Keep up the great work! Best, Albert from SF, USA

[@ivylll3397]

My eyes beamed when seeing the alpacas in the background as you were talking about the snapdragons❤ Would love to see them once in a while, as they’re soooo adorable but rarely seen to be kept in a home / farm

[@lindseyc4494]

We grew Starflower this year. Treated it like a hardy annual in zone 6b, so it was fall planted. Netted it, it was nice and tall.

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thanks Sarah. 🌺💚🙃

[@Chris_Senpais_Mitt]

You can Autumn plant ping pong scabiosa in the polytunnel, and the plants get super tall ☺️

[@bobd9640]

Visited Holkham Hall walled garden recently. The have restored melon pits, but for all that your poly tunnel harvest looked more impressive. Well done you.

[@toddagnew7780]

Thanks Sarah, another great video, so many useful tips! You inspired us to start our own flower farm-just finished our first season! Big fans 👍

[@bloomandgray]

Amazing! I hope it went well for you!

[@triciakokoszka581]

Nothing beats a good melon from the garden, eh? The Ha'Ogen melon is the melon that will always keep me planting vegetables. It's insanely juicy and sweet. And the aroma in the garden when they are ripen is quite literally intoxicating!

[@karendavidson394]

I grew scoop scabiosa from Farmer Bailey plugs in the US. Long stems and lovely shape.

[@DanikaBasista]

I feel you on the empty field spots (I had issues with vacation plant sitters and seedlings..) For scabiosa (and other flowers) to help with the tangling I will often hold my bunch I’m cutting upside down, so just the tips of the stems face upwards and towards the new stem I’m cutting and stripping

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

The cantaloupe echinacea produces prolifically with long stems. Winner! I also like the Cornell bronze dahlia. The uncommon colors mix well with others.

[@TerryCouper-lg6dp]

Hi Sarah, sweetcorn is best grown in a square with rows very close together in a grid as opposed to one long row because it is pollinated by wind not insects. Following from New Zealand.

[@rachaelbrown1726]

Thanks for all the info you've provided. Im trying cover crops for the first time this fall thanks to your suggestions. 😊

[@raeldellenbach4086]

I fall-planted scabiosa stellata last year and the plants grew 4-5 feet tall, but the I was disappointed by short stems, 10-14 inches long. I also love Minnesota Midget melons, they are delicious!

[@ryleesblooms]

We do fall planting of all of our scabs as well but I’m in 10b so they thrive in our zone during cool weather

[@nedomahony7711]

I've had the same problem with old compost I thought maybe some pest got into it Love your presentations

[@stewartmk7]

Sarah,I think this year's germination problem was a mix of things. The weather has been so hit & miss, especially earlier on. Also the peat free soil didn't help, I work at a garden centre, and at home, I used several different manufacturers, sowing seeds etc, most had at least two attempts. We have been told, that no more water is needed, but the plants need watering more often...but its the inconsistency of the makeup of the compost that is disappointing.

[@elenapaiuc4619]

Love to see the farm! Could you says what is the name of those big Scabiosa that you showed in the annual field? Love their size❤

[@GrettaVanMaanen-pj8ql]

Love your videos!

[@daisybred]

I love the scabiosa fata morgana!

[@margitamoreborg2764]

When is usually your first frost and your last frost dates in East Yorkshire? My growing season here in the middle of Sweden is usually 149 days, from May 6th to October 6th. Did you just sow hardy annunals in pots/trays? Where do you put them during the winter months? Do you also sow half hardy annualls? I really enjoy your work with improving the soil and that you show us different sowing methods.

[@LINativePlantConservation]

Button bush in your perennial list? i dont know anything about it and how it would do as a cut flower but the white buttons look cute!

[@rachelince9545]

love this video, thank you! Do you still sell bouquets in the Winter?😊

[@sarahalruna2686]

Instead of „pingpong“ try „Sternkugel“ they have long stems 🌸

[@samanthaw1419]

I enjoyed your video, but the weeds make me very twitchy 😂, my tip is to cut them down before they seed, even when I can't get do proper weeding, I always try my best to remove the seed heads before they create a bigger problem.

[@bloomandgray]

Believe me the weeds make me twitchy too. I try my best but I’ve always got so much else to do!

[@AJWGBFX]

Yes, I’ve just bought a little battery strimmer to knock back weeds on my allotment

[@samanthaw1419]

My neighbour has a battery powered thingy, looks like a kitchen knife. It's amazing, she just saws them all down. It's not a criticism, I totally get the lack of time, but millions of seeds are just years of weeding 🤯😢@@AJWGBFX

[@AJWGBFX]

I’ve only been growing flowers in a serious way on my allotment for a couple of years and I’m still experimenting to find which species/varieties work best for me. I grow mostly veg. As I’ve got older, I’ve found it harder to keep on top of the weeds, so reluctantly I’m heading to weed membrane with planting holes and covering ‘resting’ beds. I’ve started cover cropping on a couple of beds as a trial this year. You mentioned that you will be starting some cover crop soon. What will you be planting at this time of year? Best wishes

[@hollysmith8970]

Hello I have a question on cover crops. Could you cut/mow your flowers down and cover them with plastic to break down into the soil? Or are the plants in the cover crop doing something particular for the soil? Thank you for your content!

[@bloomandgray]

You can do this too but cover crops do have specific roles E.g tillage radish puts large roots down to break up compaction, legumes fix nitrogen. Cleaning up your flowers by mowing them down is fine but if they are annuals they will die and not grow back anyway (like some cover crops would- which is why we cover with the plastic). The question is what you would put in after you had terminated your flower crop.l to maximise a living root in the soil as much as possible, is it going to be another flower crop or a cover crop.

[@Fabdanc]

I still don't know how y'all prick out seedlings without instantly killing them. I always kill them.

[@sarahalruna2686]

Try scabiosa stellata its long stemmed 💚

[@bloomandgray]

I’m pretty sure that’s what it is 🤔

[@LINativePlantConservation]

Would SunSeeker salmon echinacea, cantaloupe echinacea, and bleeding hearts heliopsis make it into your perennial garden?

[@bloomandgray]

I have cantaloupe echinacea on my list, just looked up sunseeker salmon, wow!!

[@LINativePlantConservation]

so pretty!@@bloomandgray

[@janehilbery6596]

How did the Johnson su method work this year?

[@hopemorrison2367]

You didn't show us the flower stand or was it a success😅

[@caseycampbell8508]

? Do growing zone are you in according to the USA equivalent?

[@caseycampbell8508]

Which growing zone I meant to type

[@bloomandgray]

I’m in equivalent of zone 8b