Wow, what a week. The weather has been windy as of late. I was replanting some of our starter seedlings into larger containers and I thought my greenhouse was going to come down. The wind was gusting from multiple directions. That said, there was one big success today. I replantedContinue Reading
We now have one hundred thirty four rose sprouts!!! That said, we have lost a number to mold. One of the biggest issues is that I have been overwatering these poor seedlings. Our greenhouse can get really hot when it is sunny and it dries up the soil quickly. Recently,Continue Reading
Spring has come faster than we thought and we are racing to get our tasks done as quickly as possible. We have kept up on keeping our greenhouse air moving and warm on the long cold nights! We are finally being rewarded for all our hard work as our sproutsContinue Reading
We have finally exhausted our seed supply! In our last post, we had planted 1,770 rose seeds in our seed trays. Well, we had three bags of rose hips left in our fridge and we had to harvest them and sanitize them to begin the planting process. We are happy toContinue Reading
In our last post, we had planted one thousand, twenty-four rose seeds in our seed trays. Our order for new seed trays was delivered and we got to planting our seeds again. We were hoping to sow one thousand, three hundred seeds this year. That would allow us to gatherContinue Reading
In our last post, we discussed how we had finalized the collection of our seeds from our various rose plants. We had sought to collect more than one-thousand seeds to increase our odd of success in the creation of new plants. We are happy to say that, as of thisContinue Reading
We are back out in the garden this week to harvest some rose seeds. This will likely be the last time that we harvest this year, but we will soon be shifting to planting our seeds and seeing what gift we get from them. Thus far, we think we haveContinue Reading
It’s that time of the year! Your rose blooms are spent and you are starting to see your rose hips begin to ripen the seeds within. This is our second year harvesting rose seeds and we are excited to see what new rose plants we get from this harvest. ManyContinue Reading