I help people enjoy flowers by providing a Flower CSA so ladies can enjoy farm grown flowers all summer!
Have you checked your grass recently? What this means for your flower share…
Hello Farm members,
How is your lawn doing Reader?
Ours is pretty crunchy. We don’t have the luxury of watering the grass. Maybe you do or maybe you have gotten more rain than us this summer.
Well, the crops are getting crunchy and dried out too.
There hasn’t been a big soaking rain here since early in July. Since we need about 1” of rain a week for the plants to be healthy that means that there are a lot of sad flowers.
So you may have noticed that your bouquet this week is a little smaller than it has been in other weeks. Still beautiful, but smaller.
It’s frustrating to not be able to give you the big bouquets that you deserve but the weather is one of the things that I can’t DO anything about.
Yes, I do have irrigation in the fields to water the flowers when it doesn’t rain. But the same well that supplies our home, and all the vegetable crops ALSO has to water my flowers. It just isn’t enough.
The plants that have been producing so well all summer are tired and my next planting is short and small.
I want to share all this with you because as flower share members you have a share in what I can produce. When it’s beautiful and abundant and when it is less than perfect.
That’s why I appreciate your support so much.
Because farming isn’t easy.
When things go wrong I know that I will have a lifeline of support to fall back on.
As the next few weeks progress, I’ll have a better idea of what flowers I’ll have for the rest of the fall.
I’ll keep you posted.
But in the meantime, pray for rain.
Your flower farmer,
Annika
PS: If you’ve enjoyed the flowers this summer please reply to this email and let me know. I could use some encouragement right now and would love to know how my flowers have helped you.
Flower ID
Marigolds
China Aster
Cosmos
Sunflowers
Coxcomb
Gomphrena
Celosia
Zinnias
Statice
Foliage
Sweet Annie
Mahogany Hibiscus
Snow on the Mountain
Frosted explosion grass
Willow Haven Flowers
I help people enjoy flowers by providing a Flower CSA so ladies can enjoy farm grown flowers all summer!
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