Vegetable gardening experts make their case for planting flowers in among your vegetables and herbs — or vice versa — to improve overall garden health as well as yield.
Profitable margins at the market rely on building efficiencies into the bouquet-making and operation, plus branding that emphasizes "couture" over "commodity." Here's advice from 3 professional flower farmers on how to convey the inherent value of your bouquets through method and presentation.
What sustainable farming methods are flower farmers using? Each of these 6 growers has a different story, with farm location, size, and scale and crop specialties varying widely.
Which flowers can I direct-sow? Here are our top-10 recommendations: 5 for cool-soil direct-seeding and 5 for direct-seeding, plus one that can be sown directly in either!