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Flower Farmers Journal: Low Till Farming

October 13, 2019 By Nicole Leave a Comment

As many of you may know, “no till” farming is the new phrase being thrown around. If you grow root crops or dahlias that involve digging and uprooting lots of earth and many old weed seeds, no till is not an option, but lower till is.   At The Painted Tulip I am working on being […]

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Flower Farmer’s Journal: Lovely White Dahlias We Grow

August 25, 2019 By Nicole Leave a Comment

  White dahlias may not be the most exciting but they are much-needed for weddings and funerals.  I try to pick out different shape, sizes and styles of the hardest workers or the most interesting whites.  Small World This is a Pom, white to blush. She is so cute, about 1 inch. She is  great […]

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Flower Farmer’s Journal: Burgundy Dahlias We Grow

August 19, 2019 By Nicole Leave a Comment

At the Painted Tulip I am currently growing 48 varieties of dahlias. Dahlias now take up half my annual fields and we are prepping a new field for 2020 so I can grow more.  Our dahlia tuber store online has been a great success I am very grateful to all you who have purchased from […]

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Ripping It Up To Build It Better

November 4, 2017 By Nicole Leave a Comment

November is the month of gray lead sky and bare trees we call stick season in Vermont. Though still beautiful it can be a bit melancholy.  But not here this year. We started tearing down a small cold frame in order to rebuild in a different location so we can put up a new 30 […]

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Dahlia Tubers for 2018

October 23, 2017 By Nicole Leave a Comment

We will be selling dahlias tubers again this spring. There have been several inquiries about what tubers we will be offering, so here is a preview. Our store won’t be open for a bit, but we would love you to  purchase your tubers from us.   We sell in bags of 5 tubers per bag […]

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Flower Farmer Journal: Farm Structures

March 23, 2017 By Nicole Leave a Comment

  “I should have done it years ago…” How many times has a farmer said that after they invested in a piece of equipment?   Once you’ve made the commitment, you can revel in that choice. We all have reasons to make the prioritizations we do on our farms. Maybe the choices are financial, holistic, guilt […]

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What’s Growing on: Mid-April 2015

April 11, 2015 By Nicole Leave a Comment

Spring is finally on its way.  It has been a very cold winter in Vermont, with only one day above freezing in February.  But now the days are longer the sun is stronger there are lawn seed commercials on TV.  Best of all, the greenhouse heat is on and all out plants are in there. […]

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Divide & Destroy for Rejuvenation

March 21, 2015 By Nicole Leave a Comment

A friend of mine who lived in Florida told me gardening there was all about cutting it down.  Plants just get too big and choke themselves out. To keep them lush, gardeners are constantly cutting them back  or dividing the root systems. We have to do this here too just on a less frequent  basis.  Buckets  of Liliacs […]

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