Discuss your tips, tricks and experiences growing and selling vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants and herbs.
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#31 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: North Carolina
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ColeRobbie, that bouquet is just beautiful! Looks like you are off to a great start.....please post more pics as you go along
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: ohio
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Thanks, Jillian.
And yeah, the flower collections are neat. They must be popular, as most of them are sold out. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Southeast Kansas
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Not saying the Floret is bad in anyway just that most of flowers are available on other sites at lower prices. Even with shipping this place has a lot more to offer cheaper with more seeds per packet. https://www.seedaholic.com/flowers/t...ng-garden.html
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Metro Denver
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Floret also has a mission to call attention to and bring back heirloom flower varieties, which I like. Erin, the owner, is focusing quite a bit on sweet peas currently. I don't grow those but I still find it all interesting, so I follow her blog. I don't think many growers or seed companies (in the US at least) have this focus. Given all that, I am happy to pay her prices to support her efforts, much as many of us are happy to pay for seeds from our favorite tomato breeders who are furthering tomato varietal development.
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#38 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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I had a grandma who called me "sweet pea" when I was a tiny little kid. I never really understood that was a flower. I've never grown it. Does it start well from seed?
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#39 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Metro Denver
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According to Floret it does!
![]() I remember my grandmother loving them too and that they have a really great smell. I think there are two kinds of sweet peas-some that you trellis with longer stems to use for cut flowers and some you just let grow upwards on a trellis free form that you can't use for bouquets. |
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#40 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Johnny's has a nice selection of sweet pea:
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/flowers/sweet-peas/ There is also a warning about it being poisonous. |
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#41 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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I can't stop! (Actually, I can now, because I'm out of money)
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#42 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
Posts: 4,832
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Sweet Peas grow well from seed and many of the older varieties have a great fragrance and can scent a room nicely when cut. They don't like high heat though, so I grow them early on.
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#43 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: NC
Posts: 511
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Choose wisely on the Sweet Pea. Some are serious climbers and viners. We have about 15 or so growing right now. So yeah, they grow from seed very easily.
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#44 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Posts: 3,099
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The lady at my market sells in a vase and gives a discount on the next flower arrangement if they bring it back. She typically just uses what is in season and flowering. Sells a lot. She knows all the tricks of how to keep everything looking fresh for a long time so typically her arrangements look good about a week, which ofc is ideal for her to sell more every week. Most of her customers come back weekly. Oh and for what its worth hers are 10 dollars.
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#45 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 2,052
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My son's property is overrun with sweet peas. He's fighting them back. They have beautiful blooms, but they grow like a weed here, and the variety (unknown) tolerates high heat. I even posted a picture here inquiring if anyone knew what it was.
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