June, what a month that was. Memorable in both good and bad. But that’s farming. But July is here and let’s go!
I had lots of special flower orders going out in June, buckets of flowers for a DYI wedding,
Special birthday bouquets, in remembrance arrangements,
And lots of other cool floral projects.
The summer annuals are slow right now, so it is a really good thing that I have some cool annuals in the beds that I can cut from as well as having perennials and bulbs for interesting flowers. It is a good thing I have been planting more perennials in the garden because they are great for filling the gaps.
The flowers in the tunnel are done for the season. They did really well until the big heat of last week, so I am grateful for them believe me, but I will dry it out, harvest the ranunculus and anemones to save for next year and pull everything else. If I can get my act together I will plant it up with some seedlings that I will keep going until winter, then let them go dormant until February and be able to harvest them really early. It is always the big IF.
We/I had a bit of a panic moment this past week. Around eight in the morning the bulb room alarm goes off saying that the bulb room, cooler was up to 53 degrees. I had a senior moment thinking it was the dirty room and ignored the first three alarms. Then I read my phone correctly and it was the bulb room. WTF!?! The air conditioner was no longer cooling. It was blowing air, but not cooling, and the temperature was rising, and I had lots of wedding flowers being held for pick up as well as the regular flowers. After searching online to see what we could do, nothing, I started calling repair people. Apparently window air conditioners are considered disposable and they don’t repair them. You can imagine my panic and language. So. Because it is a 18,000BTU air conditioner not many people cary them locally. Like, nobody. So I went online and ordered one. To be delivered in 4-7 days. More bad language, but what can I do. Around noon, Steve goes down and pounds on it again, and he got it to cool. Isn’t he my magnificent hero. Meanwhile, I have now purchased another. The next morning I get an email from where I ordered the new aircon from and it has been shipped, and will be delivered the next day! Yay! I now am the proud owner of a back up aircon unit in case of emergencies. We think that with all the storms raging through it did something to the controls so we also now have it on its own surge protector.
Now that July is here, I will be doing Japanase beetle patrol as well as slug patrol. Isn’t flower farming beautiful?
Anyway, I leave you with a photo if a tiny posie of the sweet peas that “I’m not growing this year”…
So until next week, have a safe and fun 4th of July.
Almost forgot, The flower shed will be closed on July 5. I will be open on July 2, but not the 5th.
Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?