2024 Year in Review Part 1
Crates of dahlia tubers finished being divided.
January brought us a new start to the season like most years. We divided Thousands of dahlia tubers. Cared for our heirloom mum mother plants and even started taking cuttings.
Heirloom Chrysanthemum mother plants.
It was cold and snowy, but we spent most of our time working in the greenhouse or barn. Anemones and ranunculus were planted in the high tunnel, and we couldn’t wait for them to bloom.
Anemones being transplanted in our unheated high tunnel.
Ranunculus and anemones planted in our unheated high tunnel.
February, we put up a new high tunnel. So exciting to expand our indoor growing space. We added more benches in our greenhouse to accommodate the thousands of mum cuttings we were taking.
The start of our new high tunnel being built.
Simple temporary bunches for additional space to put our trays of seedlings.
As fast as we put up the benches we filled them. A lots of seed starting and transplanting took place, too. We finished up dividing the dahlia tubers a whole month earlier than the year before. Woohoo!!
Our new benches full of seed trays.
March was filled with plants, plants, and more plants with a few flowers sprinkled in. We opened our farm stand The Flower Shack for the year for a very early Easter. The anemones and ranunculus started blooming just in time.
The greenhouse seedlings growing nicely and a couple of anemones flowers.
The Flower Shack ready for Easter and our farm cat Taco Tom ready to welcome all the customers.
Anemone bunches ready at The Flower Shack.
We work on our new high tunnel to get it ready for 20,000 lisianthus seedlings. We added new team members to help with the increase for farm and office work. Things were starting to get really bust!
Lisianthus seedlings waiting to be planted.
April was a whirl wind!! W shipped thousands of rooted mum cuttings and dahlia tubers all over the country. It was AMAZING!
The team and I packing dahlia tuber orders to be shipped off to our amazing customers.
A rooted heirloom chrysanthemum ready to be shipped.
We were harvesting, seeding, and transplanting more each day. It also rained a lot. The fields were almost not workable with our tactor, so much mud. However, we were able to make our raised beds in the fields and continued to prepare for the season.
Ranunculus ready to be harvested.
Tecolote Ranunculus. This is a new favorite spring flower and is great mixed in our grocery store bouquets.
Getting our fields ready with beds for our spring seedlings. Sable our farm dog keeping an eye on the crew.
An anemone and ranunculus harvest. These beautiful flowers went in mixed grocery store bouquets.
