Tulips Getting Close!!

The past few weeks have been busy with amending soil and getting beds ready, spring planting, starting more seeds, and getting ready for tulip season (scroll down for some farm and flower photos)!

The weather will be a big player here, but right now I’m guessing we’ll start flower subscriptions on Monday, April 27! I’ll send out another email to give you a heads up if that changes. If you know others who might be interested in learning more about our flowers and farm, you can forward this along and folks can sign up on our website.

Where can you get your flowers?

Through our online store you can sign up for tulip subscriptions, one-time deliveries or scheduled pick-ups of in-stock farm fresh flowers (they will be updated as flowers are available all summer). We also have options to sign up for summer subscriptions. Subscriptions are delivered on Mondays, and the tulip season should run for about six weeks. Always feel free to email or call me (907-435-7209) with questions!

The Alaska Food Hub will open for orders on May 1st in Homer, and May 15 for deliveries in Soldotna. We’ll be fully stocking the Food Hub with tulips, and you can get other locally grown & made goodies there as well!

Save-U-More in Homer will have blooms again in the next week or two, as soon as we’re blooming fast enough to keep them stocked. Our subscription customers always get first dibs!


Finally, Happy Earth Day everyone!
Warmly,
Rachel

I’ve pulled a few of our earliest tulips (‘Choice’) to test in the house. We’re seeing some strange bumps on the buds of a few varieties, but they are coloring up beautifully in the house and it doesn’t seem to affect their overall quality. This bloom is coloring up nicely - it is on day 3 in the house.

This is a full bunch of tight ‘Choice’ tulips in our house to bloom! This is day 2 - they’re still tightly closed, but getting bright with color.

Sadie, age 6.5, showing off the budding tulips in the ‘Lower High Tunnel’.

All our early stock is planted - tucked under row cover and snugly watered in the ‘Upper High Tunnel’. We plant two to three seedlings per six inches. The white netting will be raised up as the plants grow to keep the stems straight!

Transplants will often have a ‘shock’ period - they don’t grow much and it can be easy to lose hope. They’re just getting used to their new environment, and stretching their legs/roots into new soil!

Here’s a bunch of stock fully grown! It’s delightfully fragrant, and I can’t wait to share it with you in a few months!