Composting Thursday!
Composting Thursday! Here’s what our pile looks like. What does yours look like? #compostingtips #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #composting #compostingbrowns #compostingtips #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability #reuse
Weedy Wednesday - compost or eat it!
Weedy Wednesday - Compost or eat it!Today we are talking about mint! Mint spreads very easily, so it can be considered a weed, but many people enjoy it🌱🌱 #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #coloradoflowers #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability #weedywednesday #mint
What’s happening on the farm this week?
What is happening at the farm this week? We are working on preparing for next year! Things like prep for bulbs! 💐🌱👩🌾 #weeding #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #peonies #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability
Cover crop
Cover crops help keep our topsoil intact, preventing erosion. It also helps prevent weeds by competing with them for space and if terminated at the correct time, it can "fix" (create) nitrogen in the soil by replacing the nitrogen that was diminished by the previous season's plants. We will plant most of our cover crop in mid-September, alongside our currently growing plants. Planting in the late summer gives the cover crop seed enough time to germinate before frost. We currently have small areas where our rows are barren, so we are planting our cover crop early in those spaces so they do not become overrun with weeds or remain naked. We will talk more about cover cropping next month and welcome any questions you might have before then.🌱💐 #coloradofarming #farmweeds #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #peonies #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability
Composting tips!
Composting tips! These are two things we like to use indoors to make backyard composting a little easier 🌱🌱 #compostingtips #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #composting #compostingbrowns #compostingtips #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability #reuse
Weedy Wednesday!
Weedy Wednesday - Compost or eat it!Today we talk about common chicory. This weed has a beautiful periwinkle or white flower. With a lot of processing, the root can be used to make chicory coffee amongst other things! 🌱🌱 #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #coloradoflowers #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability #weedywednesday #chicory
Compost flowers!
What you think is a flower center is actually hundreds of little baby flowers! These are all in the aster family. They are sometimes used in cash crop fields to attract pollinators!💐💐🌻🌻 #coloradofarming #farmweeds #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #peonies #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability
What’s happening on the farm this week?
What’s happening on the farm this week? We are continuing to see a lot of dahlias this week! We are also looking forward to seeing our mums come in! 💐💐 #coloradofarming #farmweeds #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #peonies #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability
Composting tips!
Composting tips! Here are some of our favorite tools to use when dealing with compost🌱 #compostingtips #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #composting #compostingbrowns #compostingtips #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability #reuse
Weedy Wednesday - Compost it!
Weedy Wednesday!Today we talk about tall horse weed, which is a compost it! This weed can grow up to 7 feet tall! 🌱🌱 #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #coloradoflowers #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability #weedywednesday #tallhorseweed
“Dirty” flowers!
Some flowers are considered “dirty” because their stems dirty the water faster than others. Some of these flowers include zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, dahlias, yarrow, ornamental kale, snapdragons, etc. To help avoid dirty water, we add a bit of bleach to the water in our bucket! 💐🌻 #coloradofarming #farmweeds #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #peonies #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability #dirtyflowers
We use as little plastic as possible on the farm, so we use card board and mulch on our pathways and cover crop mulch on our beds. We've been having some issues with terminating the later, so our flowers have really had to struggle to compete with the cover crop. Not ideal. We have thoughts on how to remedy this for next season, but for the moment we're enjoying the satisfying feeling of looking quite buttoned up... after much weeding and whole lot of cardboard laying.If you're looking for cardboard for your yard/garden/farm projects, bike shops are your best bet. (Usually) they are free of tape and incredibly large, so fewer seams. Our mulch comes from a tree company that I randomly called up and asked if we could take their mulch. They save on the cost and time of taking the load to the landfill, the wood chips stay out of the landfil and we don't pay for another material. Winning all over the place.💐🌱 #coloradofarming #farmweeds #flowerfarm #flowers #florist #flowerfarming #peonies #crescendumflowerfarm #farming #flowergram #boquets #sustainability
