Well the silly groundhog saw his shadow this morning so we have six more weeks of winter. Duh. I could have told you that. Spring doesn’t happen by the calendar until March 22, six weeks away! Here at Lottarock, spring is here. Very NEARLY.
I have been busy harvesting the first of the narcissus, The first crate is almost completely harvested and the stems are in the cooler. The first crates of tulips are soooo close.
As much as I would LOVE to say, I will have flowers this Friday, I think not. I will however have flowers for Valentine’s Day, and what can be better than local, farm fresh flowers for valentines day? Or any day for that matter.
It will be interesting what imported flowers there will be this year for Valentine’s Day with all the new tariffs. This time of year almost all of the flowers come from South America, especially those long stemmed red roses. Tulips are imported from Prince Edward Island so they will also be affected by the Canadian tariffs. Looks like local might be the way to go! Go Local Flowers!
The dirty room sure is getting full. Right now there are 14 crates of bulbs, and another 5 or 6 come in tomorrow. I hope harvesting picks up soon because I will be out of space after tomorrow’s crate pull! Tomorrow the first set of seedlings get transplanted, so there goes a shelf on the grow rack, and the cool flowers get seeded tomorrow as well. I love a tetris challenge, which is good, because ’tis the season.
I will be sending out the newsletter soon for flower shed times and all that fun stuff.
Until next week, Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?
Sure do love your posts!
Can’t wait for Flowers in February!!!!
Cheers, Ann