Outside Updates: Building a Bio-360 Cut Flower Bed ALONE: Is That a Columbine BUD?: Flower Hill Farm

Hi Flower Friends! It's Nicole from Flower Hill Farm- today I am showing you around the farm outside- so much is happening. Also-- why I am not harvesting my White Lion daffodil. Oh well!
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[@FlowerHillFarm]

A lot of you are commenting that the rose might be an invasive species- we will have to keep an eye on it! We do have other cultivars of wild roses at neighboring properties that are NOT mulitflora- with pink and red blooming roses so I’m keep an eye on this one to see what happens!

[@gardengatesopen]

I have a Lady Banks Rose that THINKS it's a wild species!!

[@gardengatesopen]

I'm excited to see what that plant turns out to be!

[@shanlynwebb]

Hi Nicole, I have wild roses on my property beautiful pink ones they can get out of hand but we just mow around our huge mound of roses. And when they bloom my friends are so jealous of their beauty. They are truely an asset 💕 I love my wild roses.

[@lisafeck1537]

I'm glad you commented on this. I just came to the comments to see of anyone had said anything about the invasive rose. All is well. I pray they are a gorgeous, native wild rose, that you get to enjoy into your old age.

[@Irishjay-gu5pb]

Oh thank goodness!!! The invasive kind is really not kind at all!!! I still have thorns coming out of my hands! :) Good to here!

[@tjo1233]

You are my biggest inspiration to get out of my depression to put my hands into the dirt....you've helped me more than you know.....we ALL LOVE AND SUPPORT YOU ❤ 💕 💜 💙 💗 ♥

[@FlowerHillFarm]

♥️♥️♥️💐

[@terisutton2906]

Isn't it great therapy? I love it for that. I mean growing. Nicole too is so positive and like an imaginary friend. :)

[@freshpetals_]

Who else is waiting for the mother’s day bouquet video like me? I’m so excited for it😍❤️

[@jackizbirun1403]

Nicole, a heartfelt thank you for showing us all your improvisations ( apple picker,) and your relaxed attitude. We often feel we need all the right/perfect tools and for all our plantings to be successful for us to be legitimate. You have given us permission to take a breath, smile and carry on with our flower farming dreams in spite of not having everything perfectly together.

[@bobbihofacker2706]

The Fed Ex driver was probably just as surprised as you that he wasn't coming there 😅😂🤣

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I literally just laughed out loud as this comment LOL

[@andreaspadola7080]

🤣

[@1benriley]

I love your "squirrel" moments. makes me feel good about myself.

[@hollyk4690]

Crazy girl, filming and posting on the day after Mother’s Day. You must be exhausted. Sounds like you had a great kick off to the season. Hurray for Flower Hill Farm!

[@gardengatesopen]

What better than a Surprise? A FRINGY SUPRISE!!!!

[@thomasschimmeyer8715]

Looks like you have increased your workload a ton from last year! It looks great and I think your organization is really going to pay off this year.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Yes! Thank you! Definitely more work

[@marydrew3568]

Your mother in law is the best! Lucky you! 🥰

[@pamcrowe4938]

I potted 2 containers with 12 each of red tulips. I had 1 that actually bloomed, the rest looked like they were going to bloom but there was nothing inside the blooms. I pulled them all out and threw them away. I had given a friend half of my bulbs. She planted hers in the ground and hers bloomed beautifully.

[@DianePahl]

Nicole, try adding phosphorus to your soil to perhaps remedy the tulip squishy no petals issue.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thanks, Diane- so strange that those two batches were the only ones impacted!

[@tamararobinson2069]

Diane that was my thought... maybe just a lacking patch of soil or Those varieties are heavier feeders🤷🏻‍♀️

[@zaria5785]

So happy all your starters are doing amazing in the ground. But that biofilm 360 is a nightmare. Heard someone else use it for their veg garden and hated it. It disintegrated in the hot SoCal sun but not evenly. Bits and pieces are all over the yard.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thanks! I’m a much different climate so I don’t see it baking here in chilly upstate NY! It is made out of corn so it eventually breaks down naturally.

[@ElderandOakFarm]

I grew lavender purple tulips for the first time this year & omg! Purple is my favorite color!

[@cindydunn3036]

"Let me pull up a chair." Absolutely. 🌱🐿

[@stefanijadomitrovic9780]

Wild roses have simple, but very beautiful flowers :)

[@summermucha5207]

Love you Nicole! Thanks for the beautiful joy you exude whilst exploring Nature 💗💚🌷🌿🌺☀️🧡🐞

[@StoryTimeDIY]

Tulips often won't fill out due to a rain or nutrient issue. If you're feeding them then it's probably the rain.

[@ambethk77]

really looking forward to all the content this spring and summer! You're my favorite show. 😆

[@leiaflash5055]

Everything is looking healthy and divine! Keep staying so positive and producing your beautiful creations :)

[@tamararobinson2069]

So Awesome!! Everything!! Your excitement and enthusiasm is Totally Infectious!!! That is the infectious I Love to get!!😁💚 Thank You!!!!!🤗

[@susankilpatrick2918]

Girl - I’m so excited for you! 🌺🌺🌱🌱🌺🌺

[@miachavez2728]

Yay!! My columbines are budding up too 🤩

[@beson5663]

I like your style 👍

[@serenababy6358]

I love your green beanie!

[@Flanuora]

I had that same issue with some empty tulips. Some of mine that did that had some yucky green fuzzy stuff growing on the bulbs.

[@frasersgirl4383]

I started crying when you saw the Columbine buds……

[@sharonschneider1745]

What a fun and helpful video! 😊

[@yvencia1150]

Great video and thank you for sharing🌻🌼🥰

[@BramptonGardener]

I'm super sensitive to sunlight too. I'm never without my sunglasses. My daughter always adds them on my head or face in drawings. I use them as a headband when not outside. Your tulips are gorgeous. I bought a variety pack in the fall soo all of the new ones are all a surprise and some are absolutely gorgeous.

[@StormWarningMom]

Ahh, all of these tulips are absolutely gorgeous, the seedlings are doing great, the biofilm looks interesting, ooh trilliums!, and columbines... gorgeous. I have a columbine that has appeared every year in the same spot in my garden and i never knew what it was, until i used a plant ID app on it and that's what it was ID'd as. So awesome. 🤗🌷

[@joannenardoni17]

I don’t care how much dirt the lion has!! Beautiful, just sell her beautiful-ness.

[@winkfinkerstien1957]

I just wanted to congratulate you and your husband on your success, your new tractor and All of the wonderful things that are happening in your venture! I admire the hard work and tenacity you both have, and I am convinced that even greater things are yet to come for you and yours.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thank you so much!

[@erins.bailey4852]

Awhile back they had introduced biodegradable chip bags. (They did not last on the market because they were so noisy.) My science prof friend said that yes, they were biodegradable, but it took years to do it. I wonder if it is the same sort of thing with your not-plastic row covers.

[@thelomaxfarms8434]

When Nicole put her hair up in a half bun.... I knew it was going down 🙌🏻👸🏼

[@laurenegruett4443]

What a "Bonus" with the wild roses coming up! I told you you'd love the forest garden. Your also lucky to have trillium, and buds on the heliborus. I can not wait to see all your flowers bloom! Laurene

[@dc0145a]

Soil is good for the soul 🥰

[@Irishjay-gu5pb]

Don't worry about your Columbine one bit!!! I had to transplant a few, along with a hydrangea that just wasn't getting enough sun, and I was super blown away at the roots on those Columbine!!! They were huge!!! And just one Columbine plant had enraptured that hydrangea so badly I honestly couldn't tell which roots belonged to what plant! It was crazy! I could not believe how thick and long those roots get! They are some incredibly hardy flowers too! I moved a bunch actually, some for my garden sale, and some were quite large already, but they have all popped back up! And every single one of my Columbine are already blooming! It's amazing! Our weather has been really weird, I'm in 5b. It was 85 in the middle of April, actually we've had more cold, like 34° nights in May!!! It's been so weird! I really love those trillium!!! We have some really pretty forest flowers here too. Last year I was able to dig up some Blue Bells and they actually all came up for me this year, it was very unexpected since I honestly thought I killed them...lol, but they came up! Love the mystery flowers!! Loll, I had no idea what they were until they bloomed!!! It was pretty comical, and a great surprise! I don't know about your land, but we have invasive "roses" that don't bloom, all they do is grow up ongo trees and have the most nargly teeny tiny thorns that get totally stuck in your hands! They are lined with thorns, and they can get big, I've been cutting them out the last few years. They will get 12 feet tall! Just wanted to give you a heads up in case you ever walk past one accidentally, I have huge holes and snags in my pants from them! They are the bane of my existence...and poison ivy, which has also decided in recent years to grow and try to strangle every tree, is in all the tall grasses. It's almost overrun the farm. Something about it being more humid in the summers here that it just loves, well I hate it!!! I'm highly sensitive to it, every summer I think about once a month I have to get a big shot in the behind to get rid of it!!! Lmaooooo!!! Tmi, sorry ha!!! Thanks for sharing about the Bio 360 too!!! I saw another farmer use it in a video and yeah wow, wouldn't it be nice to have that tractor set up lol!!! I didn't know it was biodegradable, that's awesome!!! I'm definitely going to try using it next year...with my apple picker of course! ;)

[@andreaspadola7080]

It's all is looking so great. Bring on the warm sunny days🌷

[@jenniewilliams1668]

Trilliums! Columbine! yeah, the wild rose is supposed to be invasive - but makes pretty bouquets...

[@barbarafegley5566]

Your tulips look great. ' I grew some white ice cream cone tulips this year too. Loved them will plant more in fall. There is also a yellow ice cream tulip.

[@michelleodell1236]

I am SO EXCITED about the upcoming change in the weather. I'm also excited to have some days without rain. I haven't planted anything out yet. I'm just a hobby gardener, not a farmer, so it isn't important for me to try to rush things along. I had no idea there were so many varieties of trillium! I just love them. There are 3 patches of them in my big flower bed from the previous owners and our woods are just full of them along with trout lillies, ferns and wild onion. The trails are gorgeous. You have so many things growing this year....you're going to have a great year. Not sure what happened with those empty tulilps!? That's crazy.

[@sherylgardiner6886]

I ❤️🍦 I love wild rose they are the most fragrant rose..

[@jackwilkinson9343]

Been waiting for this for so long!!! so excited

[@bryonyhellis]

Some of my daffodils did the same empty bud thing, we didn’t have lots of rain like you, it was a bummer for sure

[@andreaspadola7080]

Multiflora Rose is very invasive on our property. It's not in the yard, but in our woodland areas that surround the yard. I pull it when I find it in a flower bed. I have an area where it gets so high because it is climbing up young trees. It makes a thicket you can't walk through. But, man it smells amazing. It reminds me of walking our kids down the long drive to meet the bus.

[@Betty-qd8st]

Your sweet peas look like mine. I thought I messed up. I thought they should be blooming. My experience is showing 😂

[@ssamuel408]

Great video. Thanks for showing how the bed is created.

[@itsallaboutlight]

That's a beautiful bed

[@DianeLasek]

Put woodchips around those daffodils - avoid the splatter.

[@boothgoodies6348]

Your energy is infectious! Better than coffee in the morning ☕️

[@bertharios7413]

About the tulips check carefully inside it maybe little insects in there. ( little green insects ) they ate my roses before.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Nothing.

[@MicheleLHarvey]

For the dirt problem on the white lion daffodils, you might want to edge the bare dirt border with wood chips to keep the dust down. Also White Lion is so lovely & fragrant (though short,) why not bouquets of just it alone? Would be stunning!

[@stephaniecampbell3015]

Looking good! Glad you had a busy Mother’s Day weekend! 💐💐💐 Love Pink Charm and Winston Churchill daffodils. Sorry White Lion was short, but it was beautiful. Your plants look awesome!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thank you!

[@tamara9836]

“Sitting on a million bucks” 😅😅😅 you’re not kidding! Love your videos - glad I found you!!!

[@wordvendor1]

Lavender and sage or 🍏 green, my favorite color combos.💚💜

[@gardeneroncarriagehill]

Just love your energy and enthusiasm. It’s very catchy. Thanks for all the info you share! I have no desire to be a cut flower seller but because of you I’ve grown so many for my own backyard garden. Now if the crazy weather would cooperate to get all these seedlings planted!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

You are so welcome!

[@kathrynplett8386]

It seemed to take forever for my ranunculus to send up buds, I was kinda freaking out, but then a couple real sunny days a few started sending them up, amazingly fast!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I hope so!

[@Betty-qd8st]

I have those “ wild Roses “ too but I never saw a flower or a rose hip . Idk what they are

[@Weeks25]

Ok seeing your ranunculus makes me feel better about mine. Mine seriously looks exactly the same as yours, I’m in zone 6a. I got mine in the ground about a week after yours but had them potted up on the porch for awhile before planting. This is the first time I’ve grown them so I wasn’t worried since yours haven’t sprouted yet.

[@45jessiemad]

It's so much fun to watch the farm transform. Man that is a lot of seedlings!! I'm currently battling flea beatles. I had no idea that they will target Amaranth! My newly planted out coral fountain look like green lace!! My Ranunculus are done for the season but I think they'll come back next year. Hope you had a great mother's day!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Ugh! Flea Beatles are awful!!! Good to know about the amaranth- I’ll have to be ready! They devour my eggplant every year

[@RoseGaz]

Your suprise tulips look like "sensual touch".. I have some in my garden, they are like a soft orange color ☺️

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Oh my they DO!!! very exciting thanks!

[@jeanninemorgan3526]

Your flowers are looking amazing. I just HAD to go to the market and buy myself tulips for Mother’s Day - and pretend they were from Flower Hill Farm 😀😂❤️👍🏼

[@kathrynplett8386]

I 5h8nk harvesting daffodils or even tulips more open than just about to bloom is more marketable!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

There are a lot of drawbacks to waiting. Not only is bloom time lessened for the customer but it invited pest damage and weather damage by waiting. Farming is so much different than enjoying garden plants! It's a whole different world!

[@FieldFarmForest]

Looks like you can have a white lion daffodil sale this fall. People who don’t need length can put them in their gardens to enjoy. Great video. ☮️-Kirsten

[@colliecoform4854]

I just checked our long range focast and for 5/22 they are predicting a low of 30!!!! In the lower Hudson valley! I don't believe it. I am still going to plant and if worse comes to worse like last year I will be running around like a crazy weather covering things.

[@mtnprairieflowerfarm]

Hahaha! I used the Bio 360 two years ago and still had long sheets of it in the garden this year. The remnants got wrapped up in the tiller. I'm just not sure it gets warm enough here to break down in one season. 😥

[@GardengateDreamer]

Love the glasses 👓😀

[@terisutton2906]

One more comment, bio360. I pinch it and pull up. Then cut off the pinch. Instant circle cut! Got a manicure the other day and the girl asked if I was a farmer. Lol. I secretly think she saw lyn byzinski's flower farmer book in my bag though.

[@terisutton2906]

Landscape rake. Check them out!

[@terisutton2906]

I used landscape staples or earth staples from dripworks. If the ground is soft the plunk right it fast.

[@christophertaylor9826]

I always enjoy your videos.

[@gwendolyninthegarden900]

Hey my weather is doing the same thing here in Wisconsin. Weird how that works (I actually have family in upstate NY and we always joke that I get their weather a day later) (Edited to add: I apparently hit done before finishing my comment. Whoops!) Your plants for the seedling sale look gorgeous! We had a lot of customers request lettuce and pea 6pks too (I work in a greenhouse during May and June). (And beans too...) They grow so easily for me in my garden that I wonder if other people struggle? Maybe it's because the mart of walls always has them in 6 packs? Swooning over your daffodils! Next year I'm going plant hundreds all over my garden. They're so easy and I always get distracted by tulips and other "shinier" bulbs that are higher care needs. Apricot beauty has been on my list for tulips for a few years now...that color is sheer perfection! A lot of gardeners and growers are having issues this year. It's because of the warm weather we had in the middle of winter. It interrupted the cold period for bulbs that need chill time and stunted stem length and ruined blooms especially on tulips.

[@GardenHands]

Also in WI, just waiting for the last (hopefully) couple nights on freezing temps to pass. Then it's game on for getting everything in the ground!

[@jettlee4075]

Hi

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Hey Jett!

[@bernadettearchibald100]

Cant wait...

[@dentednj]

Things I constantly have to rip out of the edges of my woods: Wild roses (ramblers that have okay white flower tufts but very invasive and can ruin a walk through the woods) which love growing into other bushes, bittersweet vine which is super invasive and seedlings pop up everywhere if you allow the vines to mature up trees and go to seed, privet hedges which I leave alone in most places as they smell amazing in bloom and make a great mid-growth bush to hide wildlife and nesting birds. Easy to pull out: roses, privet, bittersweet and wild grape vines. The hardest thing to pull out is wild barberry bushes. The thorns are wicked thin, sharp and plentiful and pierce through gloves, their roots are so strong you need a machine to dig them out unless they are very young. Keeping a forest clear of invasives allows you to walk freely and enjoy the lovely things you want to encourage. We have a lot of native Jack-in-the-pulpit and I imagine you do too. Love them, love ferns like crazy. I would love to try a mass of bluebells like they have in British woodlands. The deer eat mine though. Love your Trillium!

[@shanlynwebb]

isnt that strange .. here in New Zealand we do our best to destroy privet because it destroys our native bush so theres nothing of it left. it is also known to trigger asthma like problems in children. Yet all the old farms here have mounds of wild roses and they arre admired.

[@dollar151990]

You should pop some wheels on those tables harbor freight has cheap wheels, then you can 1 person roll them out

[@foustfamilyfarm]

My guess on the surprise tulips is Brisbane...

[@FlowerHillFarm]

It could be! Brisbane looks very similar to another guess of “Sensual Touch”

[@suegrimm4568]

All of my Bearded Iris turned to mush after a hard freeze bit the buds last May and they didn't bloom.. Looked a lot like what you showed with your tulips. Just a thought.

[@amandaludwig8824]

Those lisianthus seedlings 😍😍

[@aprilwilliams6418]

yaaay the surprise tulips look sooo coool cant wait to see it open!! I am thinking with the tulips is weather or phosphorus??

[@hyperboreanhomestead7732]

Do you have a video of your favorite places to purchase your bulbs and seeds? Ty!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I do, but it's sort of outdated because at least one of the companies is no longer- I buy a lot now from Ball, Leo Berbee, and Geo seed.

[@bloomingflowerfarm]

Hello Nicole, you probably already know this but cool flowers Lisa posted an article about how glads are bad bugs magnets, I see you planting the glads so close to other flowers, I personally am going to plant my glads far far away from any of my vegs and other flowers. Lisa doesn't even grow them anymore bc of the disease they bring to her other plants. Just sharing some info... thank you for the great info you share! I try to keep up with you lol

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thanks! My glads were fine last year next to the other flowers. Fingers crossed! They have been pre-treated for thrips.

[@joseebouthillier7995]

Can’t wait to visit your farm once the pandemic is over!😍

[@carrolbaskin2847]

Oh boy, do I have the itch to garden. 👀😬

[@catherinesybillegervais7341]

I'm just curious, why you don't put landscape staples to keep your fabric in place? Maybe you will gain more space to put plants? Love your video by the way! So fun to see your garden growing!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

This is not meant for staples, it is VERY thin and staples would shred right through it. I do use staples on my actual landscape fabric. But never alone. I’ve been repairing fields in below zero temps one too many times to just use staples. 😂 we live on a very windy hill.

[@eulerizeit]

I con't do the hair flip then tie thing before packing it in. Will I be ok? :-D

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I’d be concerned. Just a little practice and you should be able to nail it! 👱‍♀️😂

[@cherylcarlson3315]

Share your excitement about Christmas ferns. Have wanted ferns in a specific area but they would be trampled with work on house so put them in alternate place last yr and only saw 1 frond from each of 2, nothing from third but this year all 3 have fronds, 10 in total!! I love wild roses but when tried transplanting them they died, then 20 yrs ago found nearly wild roses and was happy in scented pink rose heaven since. Wanted ramps to grow in the yard, they too failed. Thinking you should have some down there already in the violet shot, course I can't crush and sniff. Ifn you do have ramps all over that is a good crop to eat and sell. In WV they have ramp mania in spring.

[@SoilandMargaritas]

Could the surprise tulips be a type of parrot tulip? Just enjoying your video this am with my cafe!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I think it is a variety called Sensual Touch- it’s gorgeous! I’m excited

[@jtownscrapper]

Probably multiflora rose. Not good, invasive. Small white clusters of blossoms.

[@Edu_Kate]

I went to a big box store today intending to get several bags of mulch. I found an empty pallet. Since I was there, I looked around at their flowers, but nothing appealed to me. (Yep, I checked and no fever.) I discovered fertilizer really works. About a week ago, I poured some Plant-tone around the back side of my peony where I'd weeded. I intended to weed the front side before finishing the job. Squirrel! About half the plant is taller and has buds. Maybe I discovered a way to extend my bloom season. Succession fertilizing. Haha!

[@sarahr2498]

I just love how BP is such a ham for the camera?? NOT😂🤩I think ya got a good one there.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Since you pull up the bulb, when you harvest, don't you need an area where you let them multiply?

[@lisahaynes5998]

I'm very interested in learning more about Bio-360 and using it next year probably. Do you have to put irrigation under it?

[@turtlelilysgarden5258]

I raised so many things from seed this year and many of them are doing well but some of my small seedlings didn't make it outdoors. It was disappointing. I don't know what happened. Birds? Rain? Rollercoaster temps? What would be your best guess. Some of the failures included chamomile, tomato 'cloudy day', golden chard, some poppies and stock. Any suggestions?

[@JoJoMcNamee]

You pulled the bulbs with the tulips? Do you replant with foliage for them to come back next year?

[@alittlebitofeverythingwith5590]

Hi, that rose is more likely “dog rose”. About your not blossoming tulips there are few reasons 1. Planted too late so root system didn’t develop well before soil got frozen. 2. Soil is heavy and vet so flower buts rot. 3. Cold and late Spring. 4. Too much Nitrogen. Leaves are taking energy from flowers. 5. Lack of water.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I agree, possibly a dog rose- the neighbors have some of those. I'm waiting until the healthy tulips in that bunch are ready, I am curious to see the difference in root growth. So odd that the other 2500 tulips planted the same day were unaffected.

[@alittlebitofeverythingwith5590]

@@FlowerHillFarm different varieties have different rooting time.

[@Nat-mk7gb]

Watching your videos is always inspiring, informative and simply fun :). Thank you for sharing tulip bud issue. I had the same issue on new tulip bulbs purchased and planted autumn 2020. The buds on mine almost looked underdeveloped. Would be interesting to know what caused it?

[@DragonflyArtz1]

Do you want to see your Peonies grow like crazy? I was making Tuna Salad and started to drain the water off in the drain and stopped, thinking wait a minute this is Tuna Water full of nutrients! I drained two small cans into a small container, added water (about equal parts, maybe a little more) and watered my "struggling plant flowers" in the front yard. 5 different plants all look amazing now!! I will never dump Tuna Juice down the drain ever again!! My Peonies are tall now with at least 3 buds! I can't believe it! Forget the putrefied fish guts! Give them the good stuff!

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Interesting!

[@DragonflyArtz1]

@@FlowerHillFarm Try it on 3 plants, if you do not see a huge difference don't do any more. :)

[@ElderandOakFarm]

I have a ton of wild strawberries in my yard as well! I'm about to put in my tulip order for next year! (Through jake) 🤗 So excited! How often do you plant your gladiolus?

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Last year I did every week, going for every two weeks this year.

[@creativeforum9466]

Why do you throw the tulip bulbs out & not let them come back next year? Beautiful flowers you have.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

This is farming, it’s much different than landscaping - tulips don’t reliably come back and need to be rotated every year to prevent disease. Bulbs are composted every year!

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Can you do a video on the peonies? I have peonies and I’ve noticed ants all over them, how do you get rid of the ants for making bouquets