I love that your family just jumps right in to help you with starting seeds! 💜

What a special gift from your wonderful Grandpa...getting to spend time with him enjoying doing what you love.....you are indeed a lucky girl🌿💕🌺

I’ve just shown my husband your set up and told him that this the plan for the garage! Re your grandfather’s piece at the end- I wish everyone felt like that. Every season is full of these little miracles.

I have so many seedlings itching to get into the outside world. You, and many others, have encouraged me to step outside my box. Cosmos, snaps, dara, lupine, lavender(s), etc!! This could my “National Lampoons Gardening” year, and not have an inch of grass due to all these beautiful plants.

Oh my goodness! How special are the memories you captured! Looking forward to watching these babies grow!

Your grandfather is such a gift. What a genuine passion he has for plants! Thank you for the sharing your family with us. I wish the very best life for all of you.

My favourite part of this video -your grandfather at the end. That was so precious !

That ending was such a sweet conversation. Getting busted on the double hockey sticks was funny too. The info was also great, thank you. 😊💜

Omg Nicole! That is priceless. I miss my Pipo very much so seen yours makes me happy. 😊

I sowed my first ever snaps a few days ago. No germination yet but they aren't on a heat mat...just in a warm room under lights. My Alyssum germinated in 2 days though! I'm so excited! My first year growing anything from seed.

Your grandpa is so cute! Love that he still has that child like wonder of growing things - aren't all gardeners like that.

Oh Nicole, I loved listening to your Gramps explaining the memories of the greenhouse 🥰 Thanks for sharing!

I love that you added your grandpa’s story at the end. So special! Best wishes, Dorothy

I love how close your family is! Your mom: "Hell Yea" 😆 What you're talking about with every 3 soil block sections = ing a 4 foot section, that's kind of what I did... I'm going to explain what I did because it may help someone plan theirs out! So after I figured out the space I felt I could manage to maintain all season, keep up with hand pulling weeds, etc. I planned out what flowers I wanted to grow (I have 4 40 foot beds for my annuals & they're 3 foot wide, not counting my row for just sunflowers) then i split all 4 beds evenly to fit all varieties in those beds. That gave each variety about 4' x 3' section. So them I looked @ each flowers spacing, to determine how many flowers would fit in a 4' x 3' space. Well there were some things I wanted a lot more of than that!, & some things I didn't need so many... maybe I'm not sure if I'll like it, or I have a lot of varieties of that flower, or it has 4" spacing, & that's just a lot or something... So then I just went through and tweaked each thing. If there was a variety I wanted more of, I'd find something I wanted less of, or was willing to sacrifice for more of the other flower. So for example: if I wanted 12 more queen lime zinnias- (@ 6" spacing that = a 1' x 3' section) so I'd subtract a 1' x 3' section of something else. (Preferably something that also has 6" spacing, because that's when it can get time consuming to figure out, when the other flower I'm swapping g it out with has a 4" or 9" spacing) (I did that so that in the end I knew I would still have the amount of flowers that would fit in my beds, & not have to keep redrawing or recalculating the entire bed to figure out if it would all fit! Which I did have to do a few times after one of my children distracted me & I lost track of what I was doing! 😫) & then I moved things around according to when It was going to be planted. In the beginning I just added everything in alphabetical order, but there are some things (like say red and orange zinnias and calendulas) that I'm not growing a ton of until midsummer, for fall bouquets, so it wouldn't make sense to leave room to plant them next to the zinnias im starting in spring because they'll shade them out! *YES! it took me a long time! 🤣

Great video Nicole 👍 , lovely to see your mum and grandad helping you ❤️ , gonna start my snapdragons this weekend can’t wait to see how they do , never grown them ,before my dad when we were little, as a child we used to pull the flower off and pinch so it was like a little mouth opening and closing used to amuse us , Nicole I really my granddaughters talk fondly about me when they are older about the happy memories we are making now, freya 7 has been coming to my allotment Since she was 9 months old , she’s almost 7 , and her little sister myah is now 18 months and she is now coming with me , ❤️ thank you for yet another great video 😘

OHH my goodness! From Sharing your ahhh ha! moments re: snap spacing to experiencing your family’s involvement to zanny hystericalness you bring such light to my life! Thank YOU!

Love seeing your family involved.... what memories!

How very blessed you are!! Living vicariously through you 💗

How special! Let it rip Mama, you earned it " thrip yeah"😂😂😂

And thank you for sharing your family with us 🥰 such sweet memories.

Love watching your family - gramps and mom coming together to help! I am so jealous of your land and the amount you're growing but not the work ;) I love snaps too, so so looking forward to seeing these beauties in full bloom

happy environment, happy plants! and people. love your videos..so inspiring!

Just now finished the video, and I love that you included gramps at the end!

How wonderful you're able to do this with your family great great memories.

Love seeing your family share the love of gardening! I also love snapdragons and started 17 varieties similar to your varieties. Another fun variety is the University of California mix from Select Seeds. I started mine early after the lisianthus and have most of them outside hardening off. I hope to plant them outside early April in southern Wisconsin to enjoy a long bloom season. This is the first year starting them this early so we will see. Thanks for a great video on Saturday morning!

That’s one of the best gifts - time and videos from grandparents! I have letters from my grandpa and I hold them close to my heart!!!

Feeling exceptionally stupid right now. I’ve been putting my heat mats on old towels but I see you use rigid foam insulation. Ten years. TEN years (maybe more?) and this never occurred to me?

Love your videos. I am learning so much!

Lovely video so looking forward to your seedlings video. Love your gramps you have his eyes 👀 I have a mixed tray of snaps doing well so far. I’m in zone 8b so it won’t be long now.

Hello there!!! This is my first time in your channel and I enjoy your beautiful messy style and your grandpa is adorable 🥰 Blessings

Love you as you make gardening appear real. It's great that you engage your family to create the best memories. Go girl! ♥️♥️♥️

It truly is the best feeling in the world when something just clicks. (referring to your 3 soil blocks to square garden footage) I have felt that before too. We're looking forward to watching your snapdragons grow! 😀

Love that you include your grandpa 🥰 It’s so special to get to spend that time with them while they’re here 😊💕

I ordered those seed mats and lucky for me they both came, thanks for the referral

So fun, doing this with your family! 🥰 Have you ever seen the larger soil blocker that has a small square cutout on top. The smaller blocks fits right inside. So once the seedlings started in the smaller blocks start putting on size, you can place the blocks that germinated inside the larger block, giving you more time before they need potting or planting in the ground. KZfaqr "Bloom & Grey Flower Farm" from the UK uses it. I thought it was ingenious! I asked her and she said hers came together as a kit.

I love the enthusiasm your Grandpa had talking about flowers! 😍🥰 🌸

I loved your grandfather's story - I wish everyone had that appreciation for the wonder of life.

Gramps is the best!! I love his reactions and the way he describes things! 💙

Yep. I need to convert my basement. Thanks for the inspiration!!

Your Gramps is adorable! 🥰 He was sooooo focused sewing those seeds!

Oh I just love listening to your grandpa story

Go for 200!! Your giggles are so infectious. You made my day brighter ☺️

I am planting flowers on a smaller scale than you Nicole but I am just glad to be giving it a try this year. You are my motor! Motivator! Thank you! I love seeing and hearing your grandpa, he's so sweet!

I love your Grandpa!!!!!!

Very special video with your mom and Gramps! You will be happy to have this in the years to come. Loved hearing him wax poetic about the growth process ... so sweet! “Hell yeah”, “Umm, we use thrips around here”. “Thrip yeah!” 🤣🤣🤣

I just watched this again. Where are your grandfather describes how plants grow, his wonder excitement and passion are just so captivating. absolutely beautiful to catch on video. You are a blessed girl Nicole🙏🏽

I just adore your Grandfather 🥰 His enthusiasm shines with his storytelling.

I may have said it before but you earn every penny you make with the work you put in! And you’re doing it with a smile!

I love your grandpa. 💕 I love snapdragons too. Can’t wait to see the fields of 2000!

I need one of those heat mates for my bed. 🤩

I love snapdragons they are so beautiful. I need to start growing them myself.

That is so funny. I also use the crudimetary pencil or pen. Love seeing the ove passed down. Thanks to Grandpa!!

I loved the whole video, your enthusiasm, but I really loved listening to your grandpa. So sweet!

grandpa's passion is infectious !

Thank you for showing the how to start I lost my grandson in august my neves is every. He was 19 family is lost this helps me so it’s forgot what suppose go heat which goes on light can keep you keep showing this video I live in 7b I don’t understand how to get soil mix. Help Judy

Your grandfather at the end - priceless!

Love that your family was there to help you! Great memories being made. You need to name the gladiolus bed after your Granfather… he loved them so!

You're planting soo much!!! im jealous of the amount of space you have hahaha :D Good video keep up!!

Sweet family, no wonder you are so sweet

I've had a hard time visualizing how my layout will look too! Great suggestion, great visual too.

Tip : in a pinch I have used an electric blanket with plastic cover for heat mat. Really not in a pinch, I am just cheap 🤑

My fingers are aching just thinking how may snapdragons you sowed today! You family is wonderful and your grandfather is "Perfection"...just like the game behind him (insert smiley & heart emoji here).

I just cannot love your grandpa enough! Cherish every moment with him. I miss my grandpa! What a gift you have in him. Love sent from your zone 8b flower friend from the sunny and rainy Willamette Valley Oregon! 🌸🥰

I love your garden math!

Great video, but your grandfather’s passion and description of the grower and his plants touched my soul. 🥰 God bless him and your family.

I have put my seeds on a metal table with a small plug in heater underneath, instead of heat mats. Just an idea if you didn't want to wait for the heat mat. Love your videos!

Regarding your math revelation: I would have never ever been able to think of something like that, now matter how “obvious” it was. Game changer!

Gramps is precious. Simply precious. Save this last clip of him talking about the “birth of flowers” forever and ever. And when people come to your farm, you play it for them! And it should be your intro to your vids and your motto and you should be able to quote it like it was the half time speech of the Super Bowl! Ok, ok too far. But man, was that something special! Special, indeed!! 😍💕

You’re so funny! The heat mat probe to the forehead! 🤣🤣🤣

We need more Gramps! Love him!

You handled the heat mat issue really well👏👏 I would've been really peeved if I were you

Love your Grandpa ❤️🙂🌼

Omg mom dukes and gramps are adorable!!!

I started my snaps under lights without heat mats! They came up super fast. You could try it while your waiting ☺️☺️

I saw you on with Sabrina, about flower fillers. One that I use a lot for my flowers is asparagus foliage, after I'm done harvesting the asparagus in the spring.

Snapdragon talk ended up reminding me of Bubba and Forest talking about shrimp (Forest Gump movie) and the endless ways to cook shrimp. The endless possibilities of snapdragons, varieties, how to grow (not overwinter in the “north country”).

You’re grandpa is so cute!!

I love your papa! 💕

I know a lot of people order from Amazon...But if you need a heat mat..Or what ever.....Try Hoss Tools....they ship within hours of ordering...Fastest order fills you have ever seen...They are awesome....So are you Nicole....Love your channel....

You just saved me of hours of countless prep decisions .🏆

I love your KODAK moments that you are having with your FAMILIA!

4” spacing? Just snaps or all your cut flowers?? Thanks for sharing your family with us! Love the clips of your granddaddy! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

I never seen that little tool to make soil blocks. Cool. I just dump soil in a container lol and spread seeds. Lol

The dwarf varieties look soooooo good in planters ✅

Your grandfather is the best ever!!

Nicole, could you share please who will be your main market this year? Bouquet bar? CSA? Weddings? I feel like you have TONS of flowers and am wondering where they will all go.

U are so ambitious... love it!! I think you need help in your garden cuz your planting in such mass quantities! Haha! If I lived near you, which I don't bc I'm on Vancouver Island, I'd so help you out for free!

Love your channel! What is the benefit of using the soil block? Space saving?

I love your grandpa

I love snapdragons. I have a plant that I saved from last year and it's just about to bloom. I guess here in zone nine it's a perennial.

I’m intrigued by the idea of recording every delivered box opening now! You know.....so I can have video proof if something comes damaged or dare I say...MISSING!!! You can never be too careful when it comes to spending hard earned monies. Grandpa has always been the best...and I’m just so appreciative that all you kids recognize it and savor your time with him.

Your gramps is the best ☺️

Hi! I'm in zone 5b pa. I cut my snap dragons down in the fall and they do over winter here and grow back early spring!!!

HI, can you do a video specifically on how to grow and care for snapdragons? I'm growing them for the first time this year and I'm worried about staking them, bugs, etc. I'm a home gardener. Also, how do you plant them? The seeds are soo tiny! I must have planted half of my first package of 250 seeds accidentally. :(

Oh my heart! Grandpa’s passion just broke my heart with joy. 🌻🌻🌻🌻

Oh question I have some apple blossom snaps starting in my winter sowing jug and growing so slow. Can I just sprinkle them direct since we are having warm weather or will I have better luck starting inside?

I’m so sorry about your mat. I got an a empty bag from Amazon last week, someone sealed an empty bag and put my address label on it 🤦‍♀️ At least mine was only a Easter decoration.

Gramps is the CUTEST!!

Omg I would of died if you had a hicky on your forehead from that soil thermometer. Omg on amazon what the heck! I mean what the thrip! I truly can’t wait to see your flowers this year. I’m filming all day and then going outside to plant some Seeds direct in my shade garden some poppies and bunny ear violas and lupine. Then I need to start my cucumbers. So I am watching for inspiration because I’m feeling lazy. It’s 75 degrees today! Oh and excitement my potatoes have started!!!

I ordered those exact heat mats about a month ago from Amazon. I did get them and everything was there but the box was completely open and anything could have fallen out.