11/21/2025
If at first you don't succeed… try, try, try, and try again!
Some flowers feel easy to grow, and others are much more complicated. Have you met the ranunculus? Maybe some folks have an easy time growing them, but NOT me! I keep trying year after year, hoping to produce more stems than just enough for my CSA Spring subscriptions… but unfortunately, I never do. Maybe this is the year I have extra to sell in the Blossom Shop?
It turns out I wasn’t presprouting them correctly. I had always heard to put them in a cold, dark location—except that usually meant they didn’t sprout at all and often rotted. And trust me, they rot easily! You have to find that perfect soil moisture, which I have definitely not mastered. So. Many. Rotted. Corms.
I know I should track their profitability, but honestly… I’m scared to look.
Still, I’m not ready to give up. I truly feel the problem might be grower error. I recently learned from Jenny that ranunculus really need a high tunnel to perform their best, and that placing them under lights speeds up their growth. I moved my trays into our basement grow space over the weekend and—POOF—they exploded! Thanks, Jenny!
At the end of the day, I’m determined to keep going. Some things are worth the extra tries, the learning curves, and even the failures. So here I go again—round who knows what!
Have you ever had something you just refused to give up on? How many tries did it take before you finally saw success?
