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I Saw $25 Flower Bouquets… So I Tried Selling My Own!

This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Homegrown Passion”. 

My flower garden has absolutely exploded this summer, and after seeing someone selling tiny dahlia bouquets for $25 each at the farmers market, I started thinking… maybe I've been overlooking another crop right here on the farm! 🌻🌸

So today I'm heading into the garden to harvest some of my favorite flowers and put together bouquets for the farmers market. I'm cutting bee balm, snapdragons, dahlias, sunflowers and more while sharing a few things I've learned about keeping these flowers producing through the rest of summer.

I'm definitely still learning when it comes to growing cut flowers, but that's half the fun. If I can sell a few little bouquets for $4 or $5 and pay for next year's seeds, I'll be pretty happy. And who knows… maybe flowers will become another Bradwood Farm crop!

But flowers aren't the only thing happening around here.

Later, I'm heading back into the greenhouse to harvest tomatoes for the farmers market—and this week's harvest definitely wasn't what I expected. I've been averaging around 150 pounds of tomatoes a week, but something happened that appears to have affected the plants and cut this week's harvest dramatically.

Thankfully, the new flower clusters are looking much healthier, so I'm hoping we're already headed back toward normal production.

There's plenty more happening around the farm too. My melons are taking off, I've got some gourds that I waited WAY too long to plant 😄, and there are a few more summer projects I need to get caught up on.

Thanks for spending another day out here on the farm with me. ❤️

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Would you buy one of my flower bouquets at the farmers market—and what would you pay for it? 🌻

— Katy
Homegrown Passion | Bradwood Farm
Ashland, Ohio

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00:00 Would You Pay $25 for Flowers?
00:13 My Farmers Market Flower Experiment
01:01 Harvesting Bee Balm
01:38 Picking Snapdragons for Bouquets
02:50 My Dahlia Patch
04:21 Cutting Giant Sunflowers
05:48 Why I Want Honeybees Here
06:20 A Few More Flowers for the Market
07:31 Is This Enough to Sell?
07:41 Come Join Me on Patreon
08:06 Something Happened to My Tomatoes
08:23 Harvesting Tomatoes at Golden Hour
08:47 Did Wildfire Smoke Hurt My Tomatoes?
09:11 My Harvest Dropped From 150 to 75 Pounds
09:43 Could Flowers Become Another Farm Crop?
10:00 What's Coming Next on the Farm
10:29 See You Next Time