Starting the First Seeds for the Nursery : Flower Hill Farm

[@lorindav5549]

For pansies I usually buy 6 packs, but lately they've only been offered in 4 packs. I like 6 packs because they are cheaper, smaller, and I can get more variety. They grow quickly and fill in.

[@tjbuttsful]

I have bought them in 4" pots, but much prefer 6-packs -- so much more convenient, and you can really justify buying lots and packing them in tightly in a container.

[@cass77788]

it's so sad but I used to buy coleus in 6 packs now they only sell 1 plant at 5 bucks, what a ripoff, so I buy seeds instead, the six packs have practically disappeared.

[@katrienvh4289]

Put your products on a shelf near the checkout so people can see them while they are waiting to pay. It's always good to have them on different locations 2, because strange as it may sound, people often look over things.

[@joanholeman1117]

I am not getting notifications from you. Thanks

[@jrockwood7764]

It’s a beautiful thing to see how your family pulls together to make your dream come true.

[@pegsol3834]

Made me cry

[@toyajohnson769]

Happy Valentines day! I agree with your second idea for videos. Portion the updates out so you can bank some videos to put up. Gives you time to work on other more important stuff, while keeping your KZbin peeps satisfied. Pace yourself so you dont turn a blessing into a curse. You're doing awesome though, so happy for you and your family. We're behind ya all the way 👍🏽!

[@lurk1953]

“ I’m not a meteorologist “. Lol. You’re so cute. Love listening to your comments. ❤️👍🌸

[@christinerenee5616]

I would personally love to see the shorter videos even if they are just raw and unedited because I'm so excited to know about your progress. I would still like to see a longer video later too when you have time to put it all together.

[@greenthumbelina7331]

Nicole, I noticed last year that greenhouses were selling certain annuals in 4-packs, which were sold in 6-packs in previous years. Personally, I prefer to purchase my annuals in 6-packs, giving me more plants for my money! That being said, in the harder-to-find and new varieties I don't mind paying a bit extra to get exactly what I want. I'm happy to hear that your mom is doing well and is ready to get on with life! Give her (and all of your sweet helpful family and friends) our love! ~Margie🤗💕🌱

[@paulavance3987]

I vote for shorter videos...but I will be grateful for whatever you can get accomplished. Thank you!!!

[@jenniferwolford4646]

One long video sounds amazing to me, but what will make you the most $$$ Nicole!! Whatever helps you is what matters to me!! Or else we won't be worth your time anymore and we sure would miss you!!

[@myrrhidian3166]

Spring is overwhelming for just the average home gardener, so I can't imagine how busy you must be with youtube, the nursery, cut flower growing and your personal garden! I'm already impressed at how frequently you manage to upload, so no complaints here. The varieties of viola you chose are so beautiful! 6 packs seem like the right size to me. Also, the "Laeta" in Laeta Fire is Latin for cheerful :)

[@barbaravickroy7563]

l am so enjoying being allowed to go along on your journey. 60 years ago, my sister, her husband, my husband and l started a rock shop in Escondido CA....so many exciting, hard work moments...lots of memories. Anyway....thanks for letting me tag along, and mega wishes for your successes. 💕😎

[@cortneynichols8537]

I'm weird but I LOVE sifting my soil! I do it while I can't do much else, super satisfying and relaxing 💗

[@pocketsofmayhem]

I work for a grower-retailer and we plant 3 pansy seedlings in a 4” pot. We grow that Mulberry Shades for both spring and fall because it is soooooo popular 😍

[@sueradell1545]

Pretty colors for your pansies and violas. One of my favorite early flowers. I buy 6- packs because I plant quite a few. There is a pretty bluish and white pansy from Botanical Interests if you decide to start more.🙂

[@lizbethjane7397]

Hi Nicole in the garden centre where I work we always sell pansies and violas in six packs. Also we sell 20 packs in smaller quantities that always sell out quickly xx

[@barbistudtmann5584]

I always buy a bowl of pansies for my birthday on April 13. Here in MN, zone4B it is usually snowing and the bowl of spring time makes me smile. I can usually keep the pot happy and blooming until fall frost. Love me my pansies!!

[@r.m.podlewski1887]

At our Greenhouse in Askov, MN we plant the Majestic Giant pansy in 4” pots & sell them as a Mother’s Day gift for kids to give to Mom. They have a huge flower so the kids love them. Of course other people like them too. We grow/sell the rest of our Pansy varieties in 4 packs. Very common in this area.(60 miles South/East of Duluth, MN)

[@melissaafkrichardson9204]

Show us the progress in whatever way is quickest and easiest for you darl 😁💜

[@mellfraze8112]

I usually buy pansies & violas in 6 packs, more cost effective. Slug magic is my favorite product for managing slugs in my garden, it works really well.

[@laurenehulbig9331]

Hi Nicole! For bigger production we direct seeded them in 1206…12 six pacs to a 1020 tray. 2-3 seeds per cell. Super easy! But the soil blocks are perfect for potting up into a 4”. This is exciting…love watching the journey.

[@elizabeth1234..]

They're beautiful dirt brownies ready to pop with spring beauty

[@ginnysulya9805]

I used to buy viola in 6 packs but rare to find them now! I grew the Antique Laeta Violas from Baker Creek last year in 4 packs! They were so pretty! I vote send out short videos! It is looking great, so excited for you! 🙏💖😘🤗

[@ElderandOakFarm]

I usually buy Pansies in 6 pks. For the cost savings (if I don't start from seed myself)

[@gardeninggrandma5247]

Your journey is amazing. Whatever is easier for you, I can't wait to see more videos!!! I can only imagine how busy you must be!! If I lived nearby, I'd love to come by to help!! 😃😃

[@pdb189]

Love that Sunflower Steve hat

[@sunflowersteve3940]

Me too!

[@katiecirino7967]

I bought 6 packs of violas and was super happy with that.

[@nikitalebedynski8484]

I'm a fan of 6 packs for filler annuals but in my experience it's usually more generic varieties offered this way. I'm quite impressed that you are starting so many varieties of pansies and in that case individual pots might be better to allow people to curate their selection.

[@dksgardenoasis]

You're so lucky you have family to help you. I'm a one woman show and just starting my 1st season with cut flowers and I could use a clone of me right now.

[@coricardinale7440]

I love your videos so I want a few different ones, however, do what is easy for you. Love yourself on Valentines day❤

[@laurie4914]

Tip: Use painter's tape instead of masking tape. It's easier to take off and doesn't leave a sticky residue on your trays. Also you can easily move it to the next tray if you are potting up.

[@seasonswithanthony5509]

The local garden center near me do pansies primarily in 4inch pots, towards the end of spring I see a few 4 pack options. However the big box stores (lowes and home depot) have 6 pack pansies!

[@digsindirt4490]

Congratulations to the first garden center seeds of the year! 🎉

[@heathertebb645]

I can often find time for a couple of short videos, the longer ones I tend to put aside to watch later. And then sometimes I forget to go back to them. So for me the short ones work best.

[@katrienvh4289]

In Belgium, they sell them in 8 or 10 packs. Same for petunia, little mariegolds, busy lizzies,... 6 packs is only for the bigger plugs like geraniums etc. here.

[@mayraguambana6980]

I don’t have much plants 🌱 but I have a few on planters but your videos are so fun to watch them ❤ ❤Happy Valentine’s Day Nicole

[@nicolesalata6770]

I agree with many other's comments, 6 packs for common varieties and special/fancy varieties in the single pots.

[@kathysteele7669]

4” pots for designer plants 6 pack for every day pansies. You are the best

[@seedsaverdiane5636]

I use both sizes. Six packs in bedding gardens and 4 inch in containers.

[@spontaneousun]

Seconding this, although I usually use primarily 6 packs. However, I also help my mom plant out her school’s garden and there we use 4” in the three big barrel planters to fill them out and have an inviting look from the get go.

[@kathystarnes6744]

All the clips in one video! Yay! Love the green door!!!

[@rebekahmccabe3195]

6 packs for the win!! I specifically shop at nursery’s that offer 6 packs. Not in everything but at least in some varieties like small annuals.

[@jayjohnson3724]

We are coming up from Schenectady when you open. Love this channel. You turned me onto flowers. Thanks.

[@nilukaperera7739]

Very best wishes for a successful nursery business! You are a hard working person (just like me).

[@ShirleyJDavis]

We will be here when it comes.

[@rustflowerranch]

Bring us the whole story I’m ready for a whole hour of you! Great job, this is going to be amazing!

[@michelewhitt7545]

😳🤨. You are holding back on us with videos of the nursery! 🤣😂. Love your channel and good job! What ever you choose- we will enjoy the video

[@juliereis146]

Awe you’re starting on my grandson’s birthday 🥰🥰 he just turned 1 yr old ❣️🥰❣️🥰

[@katherinelipari6610]

I do 6 packs for pansies and viola. I like them along the edge of my beds and so I need them in bulk.

[@meandmysunshine1]

So excited for you! The first seeds. Where I buy my pansies or violas, they are always in 4 packs. Other places I go, sometimes, sell various seedlings in 6 packs. Thus less time needed to grow as the seedlings are smaller than the 4 packs. Those seedlings are bigger. For violas and pansies, you kind of need a little bigger seedlings. You know how our winters are. Straight into summer with barely a spring. Then the pansies are done, with the heat. I have never seen pansies in 4" pots. I would not buy them because with our practically non-existent springs, well they just do not last as long. When I was watching one of your videos, you were planting Stock. This year I have decided to try and use Stock for early blooms, instead of pansies. Not sure how well that will work. It is an experiment. I am in eastern ON, and we seem to have very similar weather. Take care! Try and get some rest too. You have a load of work to do. Eileen 😊💕🎶🍁🇨🇦🎵

[@SunshineCountryChickens]

So excited to see your flowers growing youre so good at this!

[@cynthiagustafson2541]

I grow most of my seedlings now but when I was buying them I tried to get 6 packs because they were more cost effective.

[@farfromhomeDotnet]

Short or long, either are fine! I have tiny viola and pansy seedlings, I love being able to start something early!

[@ellenhart3253]

6pks are great to have, we started planting up 9" mum pots for pansy pots.... with 5 per pot and they sell out every year .

[@BramptonGardener]

Yay I started my passes 2 weeks ago they're doing good. I also am trying the frizzle sizzle, and I got sangria punch. I've never bought pansies, I always say I will but they never have them when I want them, so I decided to start from seeds. I guess I can thank my years of drywall taping to toughen up my hands.

[@DragonflyArtz1]

Love the variety selections on your Pansies and Viola. 6 pks in 2" cells is how I usually buy them. I cant wait until you get your Plugs and seedlings in. Love your new soil filling machine! I have been watching how suppliers get them in, grow them on and ship them out. I could totally see you evolving to that. Hope you don't stress yourself out too much. Isa no gooda for you. Don't forget to take care of Nicole!💋 Happy Valentine's Day! ❤‍🩹

[@xiovlogz]

I love six packs of flowers. I'm in tx and for whatever reason the last couple of years it has been gard to find them. I even over heard a lawn guy say that he didn't understand why they are so hard to find.

[@ineedmickey5170]

Never clicked on a video this fast EVER!!!! Can’t wait….❤

[@FlowerHillFarm]

More renovation videos coming this week!

[@shandysgarden]

I think it would be so interesting just to see it all out there as a patchwork quilt!! Just put it all up and let us figure out. It would be fun. You could even be narrating it. We love your breed of crazy, girl! 🤣 😳 ☺️

[@themainer1267]

This whole new journey is so exciting. If you put all your product (Bonide for example) out on the display shelf, it might save time handling it--sample on display, remainder in the back, then moving remainder in the back to sample display. It doesn't take much time, but every minute counts. Customers see display and need more so constantly ask, "Do you have any in the back?" Then your assistants may or may not know so have to check, then go get it. When the regular customers come in you can have them conditioned to either continually ask the question or know that what they see is what there is. Also easier to inventory. Love the idea of you offering the products.

[@kittiew260]

Nicole I am so excited to see your journey this season as a greenhouse owner. Love flower and all your sharing. Tyvm to you and your amazing family. Keep up the fantastic videos. FYI the veggie boys call that machine cookie monster with a magnet. Please put cookie on your machine. He eats the soil and helps so much. 😉

[@natalyhollingsworth5322]

Six packs!! Love them!

[@SaraChristopherson]

Favorite Bonide products: Captain Jack's Deadbug and Deadweed brews, Copper Fungicide, Rose Rx (we use on everything)

[@kathykat3548]

I've always bought 6 packs of pansy and viola plants

[@RuthanneR1]

Have you seen the new Swift Blockers out of MI? The company is named Swift Blocker. Bloom and Gray has a great KZbin video showing how they work. It is her first seed starting video for 2023. I'm pre-ordering the .9-inch half tray blocker to allow space for watering down the center.

[@jaded2306]

So excited to see the progress!

[@suziqbrown7073]

So looking forward to any updates on the nursery

[@Sharonmarieb]

6 packs!! Those r so beautiful!!😊

[@nathinaduncan4328]

I love that you actually scared me when you whipped around in the beginning!!!! Thanks for posting about planting violas! I soooo want to get going on these 💗

[@desireehouse]

I like that you’re offering pest control products. Many nurseries do not. I have bought pansies mostly in 6 packs but now I see them in 4 packs. As far as your videos, I’ve heard Aaron from GA once say that he thought putting videos out at different times messed with the YT algorithm. I wonder if you put a few smaller ones out at the same time each day would change the amount of views you get 🤷‍♀️. I’m clearly not in the loop 😂 but wonder if consistency in timing plays into how often the videos are offered up to non-subscribers.

[@bryanschmidt2938]

Just lump it all together. You're busy. Get one more thing off your plate. Whatever you do, will be wonderful.

[@rhondaschenk5727]

Everything is looking great! Eeeekkk! So happy for you!

[@sarabackmo]

Don’t know if you have any use of it, but this is how I work with videos in my business. Right now I meet a colleague once a week to film at my nursery/farm. She brings the videos back to her place to edit, upload a dummy at KZbin for me to give feedback to and then a second version to publish. Often I also film with a GoPro and she just pick up the SD-card and bring home to edit. This gives me the opportunity to publish lots of videos an photos, without having to spend evenings editing myself. It’s definitely worth the money since I can do my job at the farm and also do writing, classes and other things in my influencer-business. And sleep 🥰 All things we publish are excellent “ads” for the nursery and the web shop , which makes it all very well spent money. We also grow pansies, but buy them as plug plants grown from seeds last summer. We get them and plant them in fall, overwinter in frost free greenhouse and start to sell wonderful flowering pansies already in February, along with grape hyacinths, crocuses and other cuties 🌸 Good luck! Love to follow the progress 🌿

[@cynthiafisher9907]

It’s so cool that your town still has a whistle at noon!

[@kathyberndt3192]

I usually buy 6 packs when I purchase pansies ❤. Happy Valentine 💝

[@betsymaltby6788]

For my pots I like the 4 packs, I can tuck a lot in to fill out the space. For the landscape I like the 4" pots to fill in gaps while waiting for perennials to fill in. I like to have a nice pop of color in the Spring, but know once the heat hits, they are fried. I also love to plant the bright solid orange colored pansies in the fall; if we have a mild enough winter, they come back strong in the Spring. Zone 6b NJ. Make it easy on yourself...post one long video, we'll grab the popcorn and watch! 🍿

[@amyjones2490]

If I buy them I buy 6 packs but the last few years I grow my own. My favorite is bunny ears viola. So cute!

[@SunshineFlora]

Can't wait to see the progress! So exciting!!

[@findmysoulgarden914]

I ♥️ Baker Creek too!!🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@CynthiaHollenberger]

I've seen the smaller violas as 6packs, with pansies in small single pots or 4packs.

[@jeanniehall1440]

Couple ideas: If you have plants that normally have certain issues, you might put the suggested solution nearby to offer .. like for Asian lady bug traps, 🐞 or aphid products for certain plants. I always seem to buy that product if it's next to certain plants, because I forget to purchase

[@Everythingoffthedome]

Please to meet you... So glad I came across your channel..❤️

[@jessicabowen2760]

I like 4-6 packs so I can use them in container project!

[@Blake.Cooper]

YEA!!!!!! Nursery update!!!

[@NicolesGardenNS]

It’s so fascinating to follow this process. Thanks (as usual) for sharing!

[@LilChefKimi]

I’d like to get caught up all at once! You’re the best. 💜

[@eileenmc8808]

I had the frizzle ones a couple of years ago. They were beauties. I've seen them sold in 4 packs as well as 6 packs. Prefer the 6.

[@lindis2660]

So happy for you in this new adventure! How do you plan to label and price your plants (not actual price but barcodes, sales numbers, etc).

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I have no idea

[@dshollins5864]

Looking good!

[@SaraChristopherson]

Working at a nursery, we sell both 6 pack and 4". Some people want more plants, some want bigger plants. Even in 4" they are inexpensive plants and sell quickly.

[@healingbloomsfarm]

Just ordered my neck speaker! It’s genius! Thx for sharing!

[@rhondaschenk5727]

We have been missing you! But we know you’re super busy getting everything ready!

[@tabby1848]

12" bowls are popular here in NW Ohio. They are great for patios.

[@stacyssassystyles]

I love a LONG video- and I do 6 packs for all my flowers :)

[@letsgotravel7724]

I’ve had the Govee thermometer in my greenhouse for quite a few years, and it works real well on Wi-Fi

[@barbarafegley5566]

I have bought my violas and pansies in both 6 packs and 4 packs. Usually i buy them buy the flat full. My nursery does also sell bigger ones in single pots.

[@debbroderick7246]

I usually buy 6 packs, easy to carry, fit nicely in one pot and are beautiful 😢

[@ahavarichardson5426]

Good luck with your endeavors and season! My flowers are doing well! Hopefully I will have a full spring garden!!! My first flowers were. A dwarf snapdragon, then Indian blanket flowers, and then viola which I will dry the flowers for a project!!! 2023 here we come!!!!

[@digsindirt4490]

I love the Govee’s. I use one in my plant room.

[@sislertx]

Holy moly i need that horse shoe bad..i could leave my phone charging and move around..WHAT IS THE MAKER!!!

[@staceymarchant1322]

I bet it feels nice that people are concerned. I'm pretty busy too. I get to watch you on my self-care time.

[@Elizabeth45840]

❤So excited for you!