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Field & Garden Blog
My Flower Farming “Insurance Policy” – Floral Support Netting
Whether you’re a home gardener or a cut flower farmer, you’ll need some form of support to grow beautiful cut flowers with straight stems. You’ve made it this far with your flowers - starting from seed, growing your seedlings into healthy transplants, and preparing...
The Magic and Beauty of Farm Tours
This summer, Lisa is hosting an open garden and warehouse day on Saturday, June 24, 2023. If you have the opportunity to visit, it will be one of the best decisions you will ever make for yourself as both a gardener and a flower farmer. It’s magical and beautiful to...
SEED STARTING: What Seeds Need
“Why didn’t my seeds germinate?” When Lisa answers this question, she uses three words repeatedly. They are: Heat. Light. Moisture. For me, learning how to put heat, light, and moisture together to grow healthy plants from seed was frustrating and filled with lots...
Video: Lisa’s Seed Germination Tips & Tricks
Seed Starting Moments #3: Germination Tips & Tricks Germination Tips & Tricks: • Air temperature should be 65-70F for cool-season plants, 70-80F for warm-season plants • Use a seedling heat mat – place warm-season plant trays directly on the mat, but...
Seed Starting Moments with Lisa Mason Ziegler
This Seed Starting Moments series is the “whys and some of the hows” of my seed starting story. View all of our Seed Starting Equipment Seed Starting Moments #1: Why We Soil Block and Which Size to Use My #1 tip: Keep it Simple and Stay out of Rabbit Holes created by...
How I Made Use of No-Till Micro-Scale Farming Techniques on My Traditional Flower Farm
If you’re excited to be planning your new flower farm this year or planning a new year for your existing flower farm, take a look at the TGW on-demand workshop, The No-Till Micro-Scale Flower Farm, created by Jonathan and Megan Leiss of Spring Forth Farm. This...
Hi, I’m Lisa
Hi friends, if we haven’t met, my name is Lisa Mason Ziegler. I am the flower farmer, harvester, hustler, weeder, mouthpiece, CEO, and head bottle washer here at TheGardenersWorkshop.com What began as an adventure back in 1998 of a novice gardener running with her...
The Most Important Farming Tool: Your Mind
At the end of each season on our farm, I realize that the most important tool isn’t my latest gadget or the new deer fence we installed this summer. Nor is it our new tiller attachment. It’s not even our tractor or bed maker, which I’m still learning to master three...
Flower Farming Basics
Learning never ends. As I write this post, we just experienced early low temperatures of 34-36 degrees at the end of September. This weather toasted our last flowers and brought our 2022 season to an abrupt end. Three years of weather notes show that this is a...
I write about organic gardening, flower farming, and business. What started out as a family garden back in 1996 has grown into so much more! I never imagined that it would lead to an urban commercial farm, an online garden shop, becoming an author, traveling the country teaching, and now online courses!
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