Oh gosh, they were so silly that day! I can’t wait for our kidding season to start (March). There will be so much cuteness on this channel!

Oh I completely agree with your thinking with the value added component, that is very important and can even be done with less fancy types of tulips. We do sell a lot of straight tulip bunches so we are mindful of offering something different in that regard also, from different specialty varieties to colour blends to presentation. Overall there has been a good demand for our tulips and I’m sure that is also due to our marketing and finding our customers who want what we produce 🙂

It’s so challenging. I find I have to let the first one from each new variety ripen first so I can see what the proper stage is to harvest, they are all different!

That’s a great idea to try a few different methods to figure out what works best for you!

Mr V says, “Go do your homework”! Haha, just kidding. Thanks so much for watching! 😘

Thanks for watching! What was something you found interesting? (besides the noisy goats 🤣)

@@floristsonfarms The goats were funny. I'm working on becoming a flower farmer, last year i tried a lot of flowers to see what grows here and to learn as much as possible about every flower and filler. Coming year i'm doing 2x the space and going to try to sell some. So for me it's interesting to see how bigger farmers do stuff. I'm from Holland,(tulips are extremely cheap here), and i know how they plant the fields mechanically, so it was nice to see how you do it in crates to make it possible on a smaller scale.

Ooh I love Holland! I actually trained for floral design for a few months in the Netherlands years ago, with various relatives who are all in cut flowers in different aspects. My grandparents were born in Rijnsburg and Den Haag! The crates is a nice way to do tulips. Some do raised beds for planting tulips. There are more than one good way, just depends on what fits you best :)

@@floristsonfarms Oh wow! Did your grandparent move to the USA? I was born in Den Haag and both my parents are from there (Rijswijk and Loosduinen)!! We moved to the north of Holland, to the countryside. Love it! Now i remember you mentioning working in Holland in one of your video's. How cool!

Yes all four of my grandparents immigrated to Canada actually, after the war! I was able to tour northern holland with one of my cousins who is in the tulip business, saw all the big tulip farms up there. Such a beautiful area! My husband’s father was also born in den Haag but my husband has never visited. - I hope to take him and my kids some day!

Thank you so much for your advice! Humidity is definitely a continual challenge for us here in our climate with this growing method 😐

So glad you found your way here! I’m just getting started on KZfaq and I’m so excited to be able to share and teach this way - it’s been a really good fit! For bulb crates, if you have an account with Van Noort, they do sell them to their customers. Other wholesalers will have them as well. We’ve actually gotten quite a few just through marketplace from other farmers. Garden centres sometimes have them too if you call around and ask. You’ll probably find the earlies, mids, and lates will overlap. The entire blooming period for tulips is only about 6 weeks max unless you are forcing earlier ones. It’s a little trial and error because, I don’t know if you’ve noticed this yourself; but sometimes they’ll go against the category they were sold as. Storage with the bulb on is really dependent on your use for them, at what stage of ripeness you are pulling them out of the ground, and your storage temperatures. You can dry store for up to 4-6 weeks. For retail, they need to go out sooner than for events. The longer you delay the bloom by storing, the quicker it will blow open when you take it out of storage. If you pull earlier you’ll have a longer time frame. I actually prefer to store only a couple of weeks in my cooler. Maybe I should do a video of this in the spring! Southernmost tip of Canada….you must be in Ontario? I’m about as far south west as you can get on the mainland before you land in the ocean 😉

@@floristsonfarms Yes Ma'am Ontario :) Near Point Pelee. I do not have an account with Van Noort but I should get on it. For now I will keep looking for used ones... where there is a will there is a way....right. Thank you for the reply! I appreciate it! xo

Sometimes it’s just taking advantage of the opportunity when it arises! Keep a look out; I’m sure you’ll be able to find some!

Ooh yah, you know we have a lot of support from our wholesaler; but thanks so much for the recommendation! I think next year will be our year 😁. Do you also grow cut flowers??

@@floristsonfarms Well, yes, in my little Burnaby garden...

That is all you need! I follow a few great growers on Instagram who grow in very limited spaces! Are you doing tulips too for cut flowers?

@@floristsonfarms do you have a wholesaler you recommend?

Oh that’s a great question! In our rainy climate, we don’t need to water until sometimes in the spring. I use a sprinkler system if it’s needed :)

I would double check with your supplier on that :)