TWO: Plan Seeding Schedule & HOW MUCH MONEY DOES IT TAKE TO START A FLOWER FARM?

[@nikkiholton6318]

Anyone listening out there. The classes they offer are fantastic !! Well worth the money ....and very reasonable

[@rootdesigncompany]

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[@happypappy]

I enjoy your videos so much! I know they are primarily made for women but this almost 63 year old grandfather has started expanding my backyard gardening endeavors for several years, including cut flowers the last two years. The flowers compliment my vegetable gardening, and I enjoy having cut flowers all spring, summer and fall-hoping to expand enough to always have some to give away! I enjoy your relationship as sisters, especially the laughter! I look forward to seeing your new gardens develop and grow!

[@rootdesigncompany]

All are welcome here! We're glad you follow along and best of luck to you in the garden this year!

[@lindseynoel3522]

YEAHY! So lovely to see you two. Love to watch your videos please keep sharing your journey and your flowers with us xxx

[@madonnaschmid7707]

I love watching you two! Your laughter is contagious:)

[@lihndanpeioils]

So glad to see you two back. My fav flower growing channel on KZbin. You two are a wealth of knowledge. I just bought your growing masterlist and love the details I've been reading to find in the past few years. Thank you two for the informative channel. This channel has been an inspiration for me to pivot into the farming business after gardening for years! Thank you.

[@rootdesigncompany]

Wonderful! We wish you much success!

[@sharoncalatayud6410]

Soooo happy to see you guys again on KZbin. I love your content, and aesthetic- thank you!

[@rootdesigncompany]

Our pleasure!

[@karenm5681]

My friends! You’re BACK! 🎉 I’ve missed you!🥰 (I clicked on the thumbnail so fast.) Will catch up on Part 1 as soon as I finish watching this one.

[@karenm5681]

Inflammation😂

[@rootdesigncompany]

That inflammation, tho. :D It's good to be back!

[@Daisy-uit-Friesland]

Just love your interaction with each other! 😘

[@riverunner9978]

Shuffling trays is strenuous!

[@alisonlandis2005]

It gets tiring for sure!

[@jeannet9592]

So great to see the Dynamic Duo together again!

[@ahavarichardson5426]

I started with $2000.00 just for a mini flower garden!!! 2-5X50 beds for sunflowers, 9-30in X 20ft beds for annuals, 8 various other beds for perennials, next will be shade plants and more perennials!! Maybe one day I can become a florist/ farmer as well!! Right now it's a hobby!! Learning all I can helps!!!

[@rootdesigncompany]

That sounds about right for the money. Your garden sounds lovely!

[@cathydavis6791]

So glad you’re back- I’ve missed your channel. 3:10 3:11

[@alisonlandis2005]

At 50 something, I definitely have to account for inflammation with cut flower growing! Bahaha! Thank you for all of your great information! I think what you said about knowing what you want to do can definitely help with being overwhelmed. When I realized I didn't have the room for all the various flowers needed for bouquet making, I reduced how many types I would grow so I could focus on selling to florists. Also, I love to see you all in your cut flower garden and the work you do there (though I know it's changing). There is so much to learn in watching as well as listening. Lastly, are the white flowers in the beginning video Larkspur (0:15)?

[@rootdesigncompany]

Lol, good one! You are so right, getting clear on what you can/want to do is probably the first step. We'll try to include more garden clips. I found a bunch in the archives. 😅 The white flowers are perennial David Phlox.

[@LaFarmhouse]

snowing today, but can’t wait to get back to gardening and adore the inspirations🌿🌲🤎

[@rootdesigncompany]

Gardening is good for the soul, and planning a garden in winter might be even better, eh? :)

[@jenifermaxwell8532]

So good to see you again! I love your videos. Thanks for all the great insight.

[@rootdesigncompany]

Thanks for watching!

[@theresaherfindahl5781]

Thanks

[@nikkiholton6318]

OMG....you are back 🙌😍 I hope you guys garden this year and share your journey... You both look so happily 😊 married as well !!!! I'm not on Instagram so please stay on utube!!! I think u can post your Instagram stuff on the community tab on you tube as well !!! Missed you guys

[@rootdesigncompany]

Well, let me try the community tab! I haven't done anything with it yet, but I'll try it today. :D We are slow to learn new tricks, lol. And yes, we both love being married! :D

[@adaliblthe9653]

Love the advice to start small! I’m definitely a spring flowers kind of girl. I’m not sure how it would go if I decided to start doing it full time. I know that I have a lot more garden spirit in spring when the weather is perfect so I decided to start with tulips. I’m hoping that I at least break even. I tried to average the cost of the bulbs @ $.75 a piece but I didn’t always make the smartest choices. There’s also the cost of my stand, labels, sleeves and sign. I plan to design the labels + care instructions on Canva then print off my computer here at home. I have a big roll of brown wrapping paper that Im using for sleeves. Not sure what I’ll do for a sign… maybe a poster board and hand write it. 🤔 I have a lady with two shops along Main Street lined up to sell at and a back up to sell at my job the days I’m working there. Plan B- I’m friends with a local florist. She said she’d take them. I need to ask if they need to be a certain stem length. I was in her cooler yesterday and saw she had some 12” ones. She does a lot of wedding work. One variety of tulips started to come up already. Is that normal for Ohio? 🤔 This year has been unseasonably warm.

[@rootdesigncompany]

It sounds like you have a solid selling plan! 👍 I think we had tulips poke through in January one year, but they didn't end up blooming too much ahead of schedule.

[@adaliblthe9653]

@@rootdesigncompany definitely glad to hear that! I’m going to be gone over the end of March beginning of April. Did you have to pick them more than once a day? I do have the option to keep a few of them chilled because someone once said they wouldn’t recommend tulips without a option to keep them chilled.

[@goldgildedgirl3786]

Here for the giggles 😊

[@rootdesigncompany]

:D I edited the squeaky parts out, lol. We had a good belly laugh, for sure.

[@lisabyxbe1015]

I really enjoy your videos! Do you have a few favorite books for cut flower farming and floral arranging that you can share?

[@rootdesigncompany]

Yes, we link them on our website! www.rootdesignfloral.com/books-we-recommend/

[@lisabyxbe1015]

@@rootdesigncompany thank you!

[@pnastalder]

PLEASE WRITE A BOOK!!! Miss your videos.

[@rootdesigncompany]

We'll think about it... :D We've talked about it but so far there hasn't been much time to write blog posts, let alone books. Thank-you for your kind words.

[@irinadriga8577]

Thank you. Do you collect your own seeds?

[@rootdesigncompany]

Yes, we've started to collect our own seeds!

[@glanettesmucker-ls9ln]

Can heat loving annuals season be pushed any with extension methods? Been wondering if I could jump start dahlia season under a low tunnel? I already start them up inside, but is it too risky for heat lovers to be out in a frost even if protected? Or does this go under the big black hole of “must experiment on one’s own” category?! 🙈😁

[@rootdesigncompany]

It's all a big black hole, isn't it? :D lol We are actually working on a blogpost about this, but yes, we have started dahlias in micro tunnels before the last frost date with good success. It helps them get established before the heat of summer. Low Tunnels would be perfect too. Don't ask us how many of those same dahlias went down a black hole when we decided to leave them in over winter. Won't be writing how-to blog posts on that anytime soon!

[@nikkiholton6318]

Can you put frost cloth over your warm annuals ?? Or would that not have saved them ??

[@rootdesigncompany]

Yes, we've used a lot of frost cloth when Spring temps do what they do in Ohio. #dip We've saved a lot of plants that way.

[@melanie5894]

That inflammation though 😂

[@rootdesigncompany]

😂 I know.

[@Bentonendflowerfarm]

Are you guys going to be ok???? After the worst chemical train wreck, so worried about you, they are saying DO NOT sign nda or take money if offered, lawyers are ready for the fight, so serious, I’m so concerned for all who are within the 1000 mile radius for the fall out. And why are journalists getting arrested trying to report??? And why such a big media black out??? And where are the environmental activists??? It’s so sad. 😢 praying for everyone, their farms and their animals ❤

[@rootdesigncompany]

Yes, we are ok!

[@lizzymonahan1893]

“Inflammation” 😂

[@rootdesigncompany]

😂

[@adaliblthe9653]

I’ve been meaning to comment. Love the new video logo and ahh all the little clips from your past gardens. 😌 🤍🤍🤍 I recently rewatched a bunch of your videos. Do y’all have more footage of the DA roses? You have a video of the plants in spring when you pruned but I only saw one or two more clips of them. Would love to see the what the whole plant looks sometime if it fits in a video sometime. Thanks so much for sharing your process. It’s a dream of mine to get my garden to the size to be able to share it here on KZbin too. 😅

[@rootdesigncompany]

We probably do have more footage somewhere. There's lots that never got posted because we ran out of time! And hey, start sharing your garden now. ;) you never know who would be inspired by it!

[@adaliblthe9653]

@@rootdesigncompany I am taking videos… just not sure if I’m ready to attempt KZbin 😅 I have to research and make sure I fully understand something before I try and right now gardening is my main hobby. Trying to turn a border into an English cottage garden in my parents front yard.