Harvesting Storing Peonies

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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What are the basic techniques you can use to make peonies last in the vase? Bud harvesting, proper storage, and excellent vase care are a few ways to do this. It all starts with choosing the right distributors. You can learn about those here and in Karen Gesa’s guidebook! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3srMWea Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3FWiUlT Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/46gzNm8 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/47qRnol Learn More: 11 Tips For Beautiful Peony Blooms This Season Connect With Karen Gesa: Karen Gesa (pronounced Jessa) is the owner of Midsommar Farm, a part-time 1/2 acre peony farm in northern Virginia. Karen is passionate about spreading the word about this business model as she's found it to be a great income with minimal investment of time, money, space, and know-how. Or, if you're not interested in selling, how to create a private peony cutting garden and fill your home with fresh bouquets all spring. Instagram Facebook Website Karen’s Book Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you've been listening and you should have been to the podcast this week, you know that
0:18.1	you're about to start a P&E farm.
0:19.4	We have Karen Jessa back in the show, Midsummer Farm, the perfect plant, the perfect flower to grow, and let's say it's been four years, Karen.
0:28.0	Someone has implemented this advice, they want to know how to store and harvest their resulting abundant
0:34.4	crop. What do we even do here? Do we just clip and go or I don't even know how
0:41.7	flowers really are harvested and stored for you know for clients.
0:45.0	Yeah, it's fairly straightforward. We harvest in bud so the flower is still closed and we'll go through the rows and you
0:56.6	squeeze each one and you don't want to be shy about it and if it's soft like a
1:00.9	marshmallow then it's pretty much ready to go.
1:03.6	If it's hard kind of like a marble, then you want to leave it to cook a little bit more.
1:08.2	So we'll just go through each row, and we've got early, mid, and late varieties purposefully because we want the longest
1:17.3	season.
1:18.9	So we know which varieties are coming up first and which are coming up second. And so we'll just go through the rows that are coming up first and which are coming up second and so we'll just go through the rows that are coming in and
1:27.6	and we just you know squeeze them if they feel good then we cut cut them down about 18 inches for an 18 inch stem and we strip the leaves except for the top couple.
1:37.4	And they go straight into a bucket, dry, no water. And they go into our cooler. So dumb question here when you said
1:46.3	you squeezed the bud right and if it feels soft like a marshmallow it's good
1:51.2	to go, right?
1:52.7	Yeah.
1:53.7	Is that an unopened bud, then you're harvesting it before it's fully?
1:57.5	Correct.
1:58.5	Okay.
1:59.5	And you need to let it, obviously, because that gives you more time, right?
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