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How to Grow Exceptional Produce
Summer flowers at Fern Verrow
with JANE SCOTTER — Leading biodynamic grower of fruit and vegetables. Supplier to Michelin star restaurant Spring.
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Fresh or dry, flowers bring beauty to the home and garden. In this video you’ll learn how to harvest fresh flowers and which species are best for drying.
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Summer Flowers at Fern Verrow
Harvesting Flowers
We grow a lot of zinnias at Fern Verrow and they're very generous plants. Generally, you can get at least ten flower stems off each plant, but if you want to encourage long stems, you need to be mindful of how you cut the plant.
To encourage stronger growth, you need to cut the flower stem much lower than you probably think you should. Although you may sacrifice some buds as a result, in the long run you will end up with more blooms.
This process is similar to deadheading and will help the plant to produce more blooms.
Dried Flowers
Dried flowers are becoming very popular nowadays, particularly in winter when there are no English blooms available. By using dried flowers, we can be more sustainable and avoid importing blooms from abroad.
At Fern Verrow, we dry things like strawflowers, marigolds and calendula.
How to dry flowers:
- Harvest on a warm, dry and breezy day.
- Tie together in a small bunch.
- Hang upside down in a dark and dry place with good air flow.
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Jane Scotter
Leading biodynamic grower of fruit and vegetables. Supplier to Michelin star restaurant Spring.
Jane Scotter has been farming at Fern Verrow - her certified biodynamic farm at the foothills of the Black Mountains in Herefordshire - since 1996, where she cultivates a wide range of truly seasonal vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers. Jane believes that vegetables and fruit grown in good soil, at the right time of year and open to the elements have a greatly enhanced character and flavour, and that size and shape are unimportant when compared to taste and true quality. Since 2015 she has had a farm-to-table collaboration with Michelin starred chef Skye Gyngell and her London restaurant, Spring, and also grows flowers for acclaimed London florists, JamJar Flowers.
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