The Farmer Bailey Blog

Order Now for Fall Shipping

Your favorite cool season flower plugs are now restocked at farmerbailey.com. 

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Bailey's Bookshelf: Post Harvest Handling of Cut Flowers and Greens

This practical, essential guide teaches you how to get the most out of your cut flowers with proper postharvest handling.

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WATCH: Fall Planting for Spring Flowers

Farmer Bailey Hale teaches how to grow the most popular fall-planted cut flower crops from plugs in this one-hour talk.

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Fall Planting for Spring Blooms

Wondering when to plant your Snapdragons, Campanula, Digitalis, Poppies, and Delphinium in the fall? Tune in on Wednesday! 

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WATCH: Growing Scoop Scabiosa, Veronica, Gypsophila & More

Scoop Scabiosa, Focal Scoop and Bon Bon Scoop have revolutionized the use of Scabiosa as a cut flower.

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Growing Scoop Scabiosa, Live

Scoop Scabiosa, Focal Scoop and BonBon Scoop are fluffy, lush, dramatically larger than their predecessors, and almost too productive to keep up with harvesting!

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WATCH: Post Harvest Science and Secrets

This one-hour video recording is a crash course on getting the most out of your cut flower crops.

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From Buds to Flowers with Muckland Hops

Colleen and Orca Bates grow Lisianthus and Delphinium alongside cannabis and hops at Muckland Farm.

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WATCH: Flower Quality on Instagram Live

Learn how to up-level your flower quality and how to price your stems in this one-hour video created for specialty cut flower growers and farmers.

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April 12 Instagram Live: Flower Quality

Increasing your price per stem has an instant, powerful impact on your profit margin and topline revenue. But how do you command a premium price? By improving your flower quality.

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Growing Mustard as a Biofumigant for Fusarium

Mustard is a well understood biofumigant effective against fusarium and other soil pests. 

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WATCH: How to Care For and Transplant Plugs

Farmer Bailey talked everything plugs in this March 22 Instagram Live session, with an emphasis on caring for and transplanting the perennial plugs many of you are currently receiving. 

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How to Transplant Plugs talk and Q&A

That long anticipated moment has arrived. Your plugs have been delivered! Now what?

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Vernalized Perennial Plugs are Shipping... Like This

Don’t panic! Our "Big Burly" perennials arrive in a dormant state. 

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How to Transplant Plugs, on Instagram Live

Join Farmer Bailey on Wednesday, March 22 for an Instagram Live session with Q&A.

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Bonny 'Bells of Ireland'

Moluccella laevis can be tricky to germinate, so it's worth it to leave it to the experts.

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WATCH: How to Grow Cool Season Annuals

Learn techniques to grow the best possible Snapdragons, Campanula, Stock and Poppies in this one-hour video.

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Cool Season Annuals on Instagram Live

This week's topic is Cool Season Annuals, and Bailey will be discussing Campanula, Stock, Snap-dragons and Poppies.

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WATCH Lisianthus Live

Lisianthus expert and flower farmer Bailey Hale teaches you how to grow premium Lisianthus stems in this one-hour video with Q&A. 

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Lisianthus Live on February 22

“It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere with Farmer Bailey” returns with a one-hour growing lesson on our favorite cut flower crop.

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Watch the Video: Late Spring Planting

Wondering what to plant out into warm soil this spring? Farmer Bailey has you covered.

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Crushing on Caryopteris

As a cut flower and foliage, Caryopteris Pagoda adds volume, scent and whimsy to fall bouquets.

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Instagram Live: Late Spring Planting

This week's Instagram Live with Q&A covers heat-loving crops that want to be planted into warm soil.  Join us on Wednesday at Noon ET.

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New Gypsophila Growing Guide

Whether standing alone in cloudlike forms or supporting focal flowers, these superior Gypsophila strains will leave you starry-eyed.

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