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May 25, 2020 By Jenny

Happy Memorial Day! We hope you’re enjoying this kick-off to summer! What a different year – last year we were able to give our crew the holiday off because we were so on top of our plantings, this year we’re scrambling without a crew, in a pandemic, to keep up with the harvesting while we try to set out plants and manage tractor cultivations with two toddlers in tow. 

This is probably the last week for ranunculus and anemone – they stop flowering once soil temperatures start to rise – and we’ll be sorry to see this gorgeous, productive crop go. We’ll also say goodbye to the tulips until next season, and will gather up all of the optimism we can for next year’s crop… we had a really tough season with the tulips. A strong and promising start quickly turned to anxiety as the plants started to show signs of disease during an unseasonably cold, wet April. Disease spread quickly, destroying most of our varieties. After many emails and photo swaps with a plant pathologist, it looks like we’re dealing with a couple weather-related and/or bulb-borne diseases, but plant samples are at the lab now and we’ll have confirmation soon. Luke calls growing tulips the ‘tulip gambit’ because the investment and risk are so high (and the rewards can be, too!) and we took a pretty hard hit this year. 

But, that’s farming! Nothing to do but focus on what’s ahead – sweet peas, poppies, larkspur, and more from the greenhouses, and a big field of peonies showing perfect buds!

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Pack out when school’s out ☀️☀️☀️ Pack out when school’s out ☀️☀️☀️
An early start this morning! Yesterday it was too An early start this morning! Yesterday it was too hot to be in the greenhouses by 8 am, but the heat makes the flowers bloom and we need to get them out of here. Flowers and farmers are grateful for our big walk-in cooler today 😳
This has been/continues to be a great campanula ha This has been/continues to be a great campanula harvest 😍 I love these flowers, especially when they grow as huge and fluffy as this. They’re now cut and at @tinyheartsflowershop !
It’s poppy season! These ephemeral beauties are It’s poppy season! These ephemeral beauties are like tissue paper flowers 😍 I just brought a lot of them up to @tinyheartsflowershop for the weekend! Open Thursday through Saturday, 10 - 4.
Golden tulips might be the only sunshine we see th Golden tulips might be the only sunshine we see this Memorial Dah weekend! @tinyheartsflowershop is open til 4 today to help brighten up any cold  weekend blues!
They’re late, but they’re good 🤩 They’re late, but they’re good 🤩

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