I get alot of questions about what system I was using so I figured I would talk a bit about that in detail here. Please note that this is not a paid post by Govee- we just happened to love the Govee suite of products and continued buying into their "ecosystem".

When I first started growing vegetables on my small patio in my townhouse, I wanted to be able to use my food scrapes to “feed my soil”. But with limited space, I couldn’t compost the traditional way. That’s how I learned about the Bokashi Method!

Lilies are fast becoming one of my favorite flowers, not only for their simple elegance and range of varieties, but for the flexibility they give me depending on when I harvest. This post goes into detail about the various stages of harvest.

When I first started flower farming, I knew automatically I wanted to focus on the shoulder seasons, especially early Spring, to sell my flowers. As someone with a relatively demanding full time job, who wants to farm in the hot, humid weather of NJ? There’s a ton of pest pressure and a lot of others growing flowers at the same time. Add on top the fact I knew I was expecting, overwintering became a no brainer.

To sum up my 2023 ranunculus season, it was pretty much a failure. For the amount of corms I started and the time, investment in frost + shade cloth, I had a pitiful amount of blooms to show for the effort. Not early enough to sell at my florist co-op market, stems not long enough to use alongside my other flowers (ie foxglove), and too short of a bloom time window to truly use them.