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Growing Beautiful Blooms in Alaska
I started with Dahlias, a row of sweetpeas, and some sunflowers, each one in remembrance of someone I love. At the time they were the only varieties I was going to farm. I thought how special to have a symbolic but simple business model. Well we all know how that worked out for me. I ended up diving deep into packing my brian as full as I could with all things flowers. Continuing my education by touring other farms, attending workshops and conferences. I hungered to try my hand at more. Oh boy, all that new beauty took my breath away. Hands on teaching by far is my preferred method of learning. So…
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Tips for growing sweetpea flowers in Alaska
Not Sweet Peas you eat, but Sweetpea flowers is what we’re talking about here. Do you have a someone Sweetpea flowers remind you of? You probally do if you know of these frilly fragrant beauties. I fell in love with them further when I started growing them for market. Now on any given year we grow 8-10 varities. I have my go to’s but pick a few different ones to try each season just for fun. There are a few tricks to getting quality bushy plants with long stems I’ve learned over the years and now want to share them with you. Click on button for all the tips.
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Tips on how to grow dahlias in Alaska
One of the questions I hear over and over from dahlia growers up here is how come my dahlias take forever to bloom?
