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"Tonya,wtf." documents the pursuit of my goal of one day owning my own cut flower farm. Along the way, you'll see random projects, cooking, and of course - growing stuff. I'm not an expert, and would never claim to be. There's always more to learn - this is my journey. The purpose of my blog, and other social media accounts (including YouTube) is to share ideas. I do my best to offer information that is useful, but reliance on that information is strictly at your own risk and NOT a substitute for professional advice of any kind. I do not create sponsored content or use affiliate links unless they have been explicitly stated above.
Hello everyone, welcome to the garden. This is going to be a super quick one, been way behind,
uh, needed to get this video out though. First thing we're gonna look at is this row of
sunflowers. Wow, look how much those have grown! That's incredible and ridiculous at the same time.
I'm super glad that none of the deer or anything have gotten into these, but there are bees
everywhere, which I love. Uh, I need to cut these. Some of these are looking a little weathered and
rough simply because we've had some thunderstorms and some hard rain, but I need to get in here and
cut these for donations. These are the Pro Cut White Night and also the Pro Cut Bicolor, which
are coming into bloom now very uniformly, I might add. Lots of different varieties following up
these with a little bit of, uh, time between them just because the maturity is a little bit
longer, so we should have a nice succession of blooms to pick and donate for cut flowers.
That is looking super good. Moving on to other things out here in the garden or the yard, I don't
really even know what to call this. Uh, there are a lot of zinnias starting to bloom now. I did a total
of three rows of zinnias this year. These rows are 20 feet long, so not too many, but again, I mean,
not too little either, I guess. These are the Dawn Creek mix. This is the breeding mix for hybrids.
Um, this is a lovely pastel shade of pink also with some golden salmon tones in there of the
florid golden hour, which I know a lot of y'all are really harassing me, like, give me your golden
hours. I don't have any. I don't have any seeds to give you. I'm so sorry. Uh, please don't message me
about it. I just, I don't have any. Anyway, uh, these are looking really good. They're a little bit short
simply because I messed up in terms of getting them planted. Seriously, I allowed these to get way
too big in the trays. If you remember the transplant video from the beginning of the season, uh, that
was totally my fault, but they're catching up. Everything's starting to look, uh, normal again.
Over in the vegetable side, I want to show you these tomatoes real quick. You can see these
are kind of grown in a square foot type intensive, French intensive style. Um, holding up with trellis
netting. I know that's not traditional. It works for me. I've been doing it for years. Uh, I think it's
awesome, uh, getting some of the first tomatoes. Also wanting to point out some of the oriental
lilies have started to open. I just did a very small bout of oriental lilies this year. I love
oriental lilies, not so much for the flower form or the sticky pollen. It's kind of annoying, but
for the fragrance, the scent of these is absolutely enchanting. If you've ever stuck
your nose in some passing by, you, you know what's up, you know what I'm talking about.
Uh, this kind of white with pink blush, this one is called Marco Polo. Also have some Casablanca
lilies in here too that have not bloomed yet. Not really using these for cut flowers, just enjoying
the show. Um, also in the garden, I wanted to show some of the vines, which are ridiculous. Um, when I
planted, I thought I'll allow for plenty of room for vines. Um, there is a pumpkin on the left and
there is of course the watermelon on the right. Uh, there are five hills of these all together
and they have completely taken over the growing space. I allowed for about 10 feet between each.
So each vine has about 20 feet of crawling space to give you some kind of a, you know, standard
here, but it's outrageous. That's really about it for this video. I hope that it was helpful. I'm not
quite sure if it was, but Hey, you know, I just wanted to give you an update on what's going on.
I hope you're having a super great day. You totally deserve it. And I will talk to y'all later. Bye.
