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How Many Flowers Do I Need To Grow? (as a Flower Farmer)

There are two big questions I get from a lot of flower farmers

What do I plant to ensure it all goes together?
How much of each do I need?

These are great questions to ask, and really get to the heart of the flower farmer’s business. It’s important to ensure that you have enough volume of material in order to supply your sales and income streams, but it’s also important to know that information (And actually, the majority of flower farming’s stresses can be attributed to these two questions!)

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How to Retroplan Your Flower Farm

When talking with new flower farmers and growers, a big question is how do you decide what flowers to grow?

There are many species of flowers to grow, with hundreds of varieties and cultivars to try out. Each flower variety has its own merits and negatives, and it can honestly be quite a bit confusing trying to determine which flowers you may want to grow. It’s kind of like falling down the rabbit hole - your head starts practically spinning so fast with the possibilities that it can make you dizzy.

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Why I Don’t Use Charts or Spreadsheets as a Flower Farmer

Okay, so when I first started out flower farming, I made a lot of charts. Charts for seeds to be purchased, charts for seeds to be sown, charts for planting dates and succession dates and sales and clients. This was OK the first year, but it quickly got larger and larger and what started off as a fun and exciting business project suddenly started requiring spreadsheets, lists, charts and diagrams