Flower Farmers Journal: Starting Anemones & Ranunculus
The Painted Tulip
by Nicole
4y ago
It’s middle of January in cold snowy Vermont. Most people are reveling in skiing,  snow boarding, sledding, snowball fights, ice skating and snowmen, not us. Here at  The  Painted Tulip it’s time to start our season. We always start with anenomes and ranunculus.   Though it’s freezing now by end of February, it’s warm enough ..read more
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Flower Farmers Journal: Free Calendar Pages.
The Painted Tulip
by Nicole
4y ago
A few years ago, demands for dahlia flowers became overwhelming. Me and my team developed a simple delivery chart to make sure every customer could be supplied with what they need.  This morphed into a super  helpful calender that I print for my self every year.  Each week has 2 pages a delivery page and ..read more
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Flower Farmers Journal: A New Season 2020
The Painted Tulip
by Nicole
4y ago
photo credit: Jennifer Langille It’s that time of year everyone’s starting fresh. It’s exciting as a farmer because it means the beginning of trying out new plans that have been rolling around in the head for the past year. Every season we grow, learning from what we did right and wrong.   It often takes ..read more
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Dahlia Tuber Online Store is Open for 2020
The Painted Tulip
by Nicole
4y ago
Over the past few weeks I have been digging, curing and packing up Dahlia Tubers for winter storage. Once I see how many tubers we have, I start making edits to the store as to what will be available. This year we are excited to bring to you new varieties we haven’t had in the ..read more
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Flower Farmers Journal: Dahlias, Digging, Curing and Storing
The Painted Tulip
by Nicole
4y ago
This fall we created 3 videos about how we dig, cure and store dahlia tubers (you will find below). Every person has there own little tips and trends, here are a few of ours. Everyones storage facility is different and you need to figure out what works for you.  Trial & error is unfortunately the ..read more
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Flower Farmers Journal: Low Till Farming
The Painted Tulip
by Nicole
4y ago
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 ..read more
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Flower Farmer’s Journal: Lovely White Dahlias We Grow
The Painted Tulip
by Nicole
4y ago
  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 ..read more
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Flower Farmer’s Journal: Burgundy Dahlias We Grow
The Painted Tulip
by Nicole
5y ago
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 ..read more
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