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Farm Updates

Weekly updates on crop stage and progress, weather conditions, and any current challenges or successes we're experiencing.

May 25, 2020 By Jennifer Elliott

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!

https://tinyheartsfarm.com/2020/05/25/3998/

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May 7, 2020 By Jennifer Elliott

What a beautiful weekend! The sunshine and warmth had a huge effect on the flowers – it forced so many of the long-awaited tulip varieties open, and we were swimming in anemones and ranunculus in the greenhouse (in short sleeves!) Never mind that those two lovely spring days were sandwiched between cold and colder weather. Actually, we do mind…with every night in the 10-day forecast in the 30’s (and a few below freezing), this isn’t the welcome to May we were hoping for, especially after such a cold, wet April. Flowers do not like to sit under cold, cloudy skies for this long – we’ll be scouting closely for signs of disease until the weather lets up and we’re looking at more seasonable nights in the 50’s. We’d usually be trying to get a jump on our dahlia planting by now, too, but no chance with this forecast. In the meantime, it’s Mother’s Day week and we’ll be slammed in the barn putting together orders and arrangements with all the beautiful flowers the warm days gave us!

https://tinyheartsfarm.com/2020/05/07/3673/

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April 27, 2020 By luke


Ranunculus and anemone are coming in from the greenhouses. Our greenhouse tulips are finished for the season and because of the long stretch of intolerably cold, wet weather, we’re still waiting for our field tulips to bloom. We’ve listed availability for curbside retail flowers on the website…this is the ONLY way we’re able to sell flowers this week. We’ll be updating availability as we harvest and are not able to predict availability for the coming weeks due to the unstable weather. We aren’t currently taking pre-orders for next week or Mother’s Day and are unable to offer anything for wholesale this week.

Thank you for understanding…we’re currently inundated with personal requests for both wholesale and retail flowers and cannot respond to individual inquiries outside of our online channels. We’re currently working without staff and are spending our time managing the farm and harvesting!

https://tinyheartsfarm.com/2020/04/27/cold-wet-weather-slowing-growth-limited-greenhouse-flowers-available/

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Sowing the seeds of scenes like this...started a r Sowing the seeds of scenes like this...started a round of lisianthus in the greenhouse today. We’ve always bought plugs in the past, so this is our first time starting from seed. Any advice, growers??! 

Swipe to see my little helper loading trays into the germination chamber 💘
Starting the second round of anemones in the green Starting the second round of anemones in the greenhouse right now...finally some sun, making it so pleasant in here.
Our first seeding of the season was scheduled for Our first seeding of the season was scheduled for this week and it’s been tough finding the time and motivation to get out to the greenhouse, dust off the vacuum seeder, and pull out the stored trays. So here it is Friday afternoon, and the sweet peas and snapdragons are in the germination chamber. Talk about procrastination, talk about small victories 🙌
Little greenies representing a new year, new seaso Little greenies representing a new year, new season, and a fresh start! Happy New Year, everybody 😘
Introducing Bric-a-Brax, the newest member of the Introducing Bric-a-Brax, the newest member of the Tiny Hearts family! George named her, only after having lost the battle to name her George. Valiant effort, though.
Tromped out yesterday morning and was glad to see Tromped out yesterday morning and was glad to see these girls shedding snow so well...then bolted back inside to the fireplace 🥶

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