Tips for the Longest Lasting Cut-flowers from Your Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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If you’re new to flower gardening, this is the podcast episode for you! Rachel Nafis has garnered lots of tips and tricks in her time gardening 8 different cut flower plots in her neighborhood in San Diego. She shares them with Kevin here. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/46thMl3 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3rk5BYT Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/48EuWxs EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3t8ORnX Learn More: 21 Flowers For The Perfect Fall Cut Flower Garden When To Plant Dahlias: The Best Time Of Year Connect With Rachel Nafis: Rachel Nafis is an urban flower farmer based in San Diego, California. Her urban farm, established in 2019, is composed of 8 different cutting gardens in her neighborhood, where she grows for a 30-member bouquet subscription, flower shops, and event florists. Instagram Website 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 Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you are like me and you're a vegetable gardener who has gotten into flowers, there's
0:07.4	definitely a learning curve that is completely different from growing your classic vegetable.
0:11.6	I know how to harvest a tomato for proper shelf life, I know how to harvest my potatoes,
0:17.5	but in my flowers, I will confess, I've had some mishaps here where I put a lot of time
0:21.4	and effort into a flower and then all of a sudden I cut it and I'm very sad.
0:24.7	So we have Rachel Nevis back on the show, an urban flower farmer here in San Diego, California
0:30.9	So there's this concept, maybe we can just start here, Rachel, of vase life.
0:35.5	Can we just explain that real quickly?
0:37.9	Yeah, so flowers are actually alive after you cut them.
0:41.5	So you're basically, you're trying to slow down that process of dying for as long as possible,
0:47.8	so you can enjoy all of your hard work that you put into growing that flower from planting
0:54.2	the seed to transplanting and harvesting all of it.
0:59.2	So I think remembering that that flower stem is actually still alive is helpful.
1:07.6	So basically, your goal is to keep the xylom straws in the stem of the flower, sucking
1:17.4	water and carbohydrates and keep them free from debris and bacteria and that will help
1:24.1	kind of with that, prolong that slow dine of the flower.
1:28.6	So there's actually some very simple things that you can and kind of rules to follow
1:33.6	to for the optimal vase life.
1:36.8	And there is some differences, you know, depending on like vegetables, depending on what actual
1:43.5	flower it is that you're working with.
1:45.3	But in general, having clean clipper, like clippers is very important and a clean bucket
1:52.4	because you're basically would be introducing bacteria to that flower stem and clogging
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