Among flower growing clients and friends who achieved their goals in 2022, I’ve noticed these common trends: And incidentally, I find people with these same characteristics actually make not just good flower farmers and home gardeners but also good chess players, singers, dog trainers, writers, etc., etc…, and itâs no surprise. They have a growth […]
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This Thursday, January 12, 2023, in our online community The Garden, weâre kicking off a 14-module LIVE training event to help our members Plan for Success in their Flower Gardens. ???????????????????? Here at Triple Wren, we love to plan. Weâve gone on a journey from complete beginners who knew nothing about farming to a place
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Today, Iâm going to walk through a very specific and detailed plan that harmonizes everything taught in this Garden Planning for Success series. Our Priority Goal was to grow flowers to create 15 bouquets a week from June to September. If I had only one 100â by 4â bed, knowing what I know about current
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If you want to have bouquets that really shine, you need three key ingredients: focal flowers, filler flowers, and foliage. Obviously our favorite focal flowers are dahlias (in all their many forms!), but we have favorite filler flowers and foliage too. We’ve written about our favorite filler flowers and now we’d like to share with
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As we continue in our Garden Planning for Success series, today weâre talking about spacing between plants in a growing area. Within your flower beds, spacing for your plants varies, but keep in mind that you can usually crowd cut flowers a bit more than you’d expect. It often helps them grow taller, too, since
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In this Garden Planning for Success series, we’ve covered what to grow and now, letâs talk growing space! So how DO you create a garden plan that effectively uses your space? If you have at least 100 square feet to grow in (imagine a 4âx25â space), I recommend growing focals in about 3/4âs of it.
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In our Garden Planning for Success series Iâve mentioned the term âsuccession planting,â and today Iâd like to give a simple example or two of how this type of planting/planning can work. Remember, the Big Goal weâre working towards in this example is growing for 15 bouquets/week for 16 weeks in spring/summer. (????If youâre joining
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Welcome back to our Garden Planning for Success series. Yesterday I was talking about starting seeds, and I want to continue today with a few tips for planning to start seedlings indoors. Ask yourself these two important questions before you start planting your indoor starts: 1. How many weeks will these babies need to be in
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Are you tired of trying to remember how long each flower takes to bloom? We can help you! We’ve made a free printable of days from seed to blooms for all of the most common cut flowers. So, next time you sit down to plan your cut flower garden, you can just refer to this
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Weâre back to our Garden Planning for Success series, developing a spreadsheet Plan for âWhat to Growâ for our priority goal (????If youâre just joining now, we have links to all of the posts in this series down below.)Â The next step: think about WHEN to plant in order to have flowers each week. Here
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