We don’t mean to be depressing but…
The first photo is May 3, 2023
The second photo is May 9, 2024
Just like we teach the kids on the field trips to our farm, here are three very important things that our crops need to grow:
1. Soil 👩🏻🌾
2. Water 💧
3. Sun ☀️
This spring, we got SO MUCH rain but hardly any sun. The clay soil sat soaking wet for weeks as it continually rained and stayed cloudy. The flower seeds struggled and most of them rotted. We took a chance and invested again mid-April and replanted our big field only to have even more heavy rainfall and no sunshine. ☁️
If we would’ve had lots of sunny days and 85+ degree weather in between the rains, our field would look completely different right about now. We’d actually have a beautiful field of flowers! 🌻
We don’t mean to be depressing and we would LOVE to be advertising photos of last year’s fields… but the reason we share our hardships with you is for two very important reasons:
- We want to spread the word of the current flower field status because all we have to advertise our flowers is the BEAUTIFUL photos from last year’s near perfect field. We don’t want y’all disappointed when you come and the flower fields aren’t quite what they were in 2023.😔
- We want you to understand that while you might have enjoyed the cooler, cloudy spring, it has really affected the crops here at the farm. When you visit here soon, it will be hard to remember our terrible growing season with the sunny and warm days that will have set in (opening weekend’s weather looks great!) … the nice weather was just a little too late for our flowers.
At this point, if we did a third replanting, we wouldn’t have flowers until mid-July. We thought about it… but walking around the farm in July is well… HOT 🥵
Thankfully we do have overflowing tanks of water from all these rains, so hopefully it will be enough to get our fall crops through the summer and come fall, we will have better luck! 🎃🌻
The past few days of warm, sunny weather and no rainfall has been good for the flowers that we do have. It appears that the smaller field is growing and getting ready to bloom. (And they are pretty!) We might actually have some blooming flowers for opening weekend!
The large field of flowers sadly got this sunshine and break from rain a little too late. Once again, we lost a good bit of the flowers to rot. What did make it, seems to have doubled in size in the past week. We are anticipating this field early/mid- June but it will NOT be a full field. It is going to be spotty due to the seeds that rotted.😢
We appreciate your support of our farm, and we hope you will still visit this May & June. We are going to have a bunch of fun on the farm with y’all this spring regardless! We will have flowers, however, the flower fields just won’t be the best they’ve ever been… that was last year’s crop ☺️ On the plus side, maybe our pumpkin patch will be GREAT for 2024! We are keeping the faith that God’s got us and it will all work out! ❤️
Here is the most recent photo of the only Sunflower field we have that is doing well do to good drainage (it was 80% cow manure and not clay soil). It was originally intended to be the field we allowed you to “cut” your own flowers from. These sunflowers are doing well and projected to bloom May 18-28th
