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- On our small farm, we're constantly looking for ways to make a little money while we wait for our Christmas trees to grow. This year we planted 1/4 acre of sunflowers and opened as a u-pick operation. Its been a good experiment.
Wife and I love watching your vids, you guys actually inspired my wife and I to pursue our hobby farm dream.
Wow! Thanks a lot. Best of luck with your hobby farm!
Great Video. I have a large farm, where I plant about 5 acres of vegetables, and offer pick your own, and draws a lot of people, especially around Sept - Oct when the pumpkins are ready. You have inspired me to grow sunflowers, all sizes, including the American hybrid, which get over 12 ft tall. I have grown some, and always grab peoples attention.
That is awesome! This video was from a couple years ago and we're doubling down this year with a longer flower season and more flower varieties grown over a larger acreage. Thanks for watching.
Farming is something you don’t want to start figuring up your time on. Haha. You just gotta love it! Which I can tell your enjoying what you do. Glad your making some money, every little bit helps.
Thanks! We are enjoying ourselves. The little bit of money is great. This pretty much buys our next batch of christmas tree seedlings.
Those sunflowers really came along very well after looking rather bleak a few weeks ago. Well done!
Yes indeed! Its amazing what water and fertilizer can do. haha! Thanks Rob!
10 acres of weeds and trees. I’m learning from YOU ! Thanks .Marketing it shows Go Organic ! Go natural fertilizer, no expense. Like you said Farm Exposure ! Fantastic ! In any spare time view gardening videos. Permaculture !
there's always more to learn. thanks for watching
Good info Phil. We will have to look into it. We have volunteer sunflowers everywhere here n KS but I know people that have paths made n their field & charge per head to just come out. They pick flowers, walk around & take pictures while there. Thks
Yeah, we'll probably explore admission based pricing in the future.
I Love Sunflowers! Great ideas.
Thank you! 😊 we're going even bigger with flowers this year. Stay tuned over the next several months!
I love how simple you kept it, although a lot of work, not so many types of flowers. This was my first year of cut flower garden, big! I learned what I like...Zinnias are gorgeous and so many kinds that you really get a nice variety, especially paired with Sun Flowers. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thanks a lot. Check out some of our more recent vids from this season. We went even bigger this year with several kinds of sunflowers and we also added cosmos which were super easy to grow.
Man following along your series is great. You are so right about the social media aspect. I would view the sunflower picking/photo shoots as a marketing opportunity rather than a huge money maker. Ones the Christmas trees are available you can give everyone a Christmas tree magnet or something so that they remember you. Great mindset you have
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the videos. Great idea with the magnet. I'll add it to my list. have a great day
thanks for the input!
Ever thought about doing U-pick pumpkins for Halloween? That seems like it would make some money too.
Hi! Thanks for the question. Yes we tried pumpkins last year (there are videos of that here on the channel) and it was a miserable failure. I think it would be difficult for us to succeed with that not being full-time farmers. On top of that, we're going to do more fall Christmas tree planting based on success we had last year, so we need to spend time in late-Sept-Oct prepping and planting.
Thanks so much for the info!
Very interesting! Thanks for talking about the ins and outs. We're looking at the opposite of this, with flowers as our main gig, and christmas trees just to keep our acres in agricultural production. Also, the trees open up a revenue stream during a period when flower farms are usually at their slowest.
Sell some lemonade, some pies, hot dogs, food stuff and some flower calendars.
Excellent video. Definitely something we are considering doing soon.
I grew Indian corn this year with the intention of selling dried ears and cornstalks. Didn't work out, but it was a learning experience.
I hear there's actually quite a bit to know about growing corn. I haven't tried yet.
Our corn for the last 2 years developed smut...didn't even know what that was until it showed its ugly face. How about luffa squash? I looked into growing it for sale but my homework says our region wouldn't be warm enough long enough. You could even add other gourds for bird houses.
Every little bit helps plus getting your name out there will no doubt help.
I luv sunflower... I cannot use that many on my backyard...so I would like to sale to pet shop for hamster food... It's organic and healthy... it's great 👍
Awesome 👌🏿
LETS GO PHIL KELLY
smart man, build it and they will come, your the man
Thanks 👍
I put 10000 sunflowers in over 5 plantings with terrible results. First we thought bad seed. Then we thought it was to hot. ( we get 35c every day in summer. We thought maybe something to do with our soil. Then we thought mice. Finally we realised we had a group of small birds and ducks coming in and eating the first leaves off our Sunflowers from sprouting stage to 2 inches high. So can’t plant big paddocks. We now plant only 400 at a time and have a bird net over the top.
That's a really cool idea. I might have to try doing that next year, I enjoy growing sunflowers in addition to the rest of my garden.
Nice that you could make an extra thousand bucks for not a lot of extra cost. 👍
Great idea !
Learned allot I'm super excited to do flowers this year..I have the opportunity to have my flowers at a local coffee shop it's my first year doing this. I don't have Facebook or instagram I guess I gotta don't it again lol
we recently got in a bunch of seeds for this upcoming season. Excited for our biggest year yet. Best of luck to you!
Great video
Thank you, very nice video!!!
Great video and info. Thanks for sharing and I hope you crush it in 2021! Good luck!
Thanks so much!
Great video!!!
THanks. There are a bunch of videos from this season too that you might find useful. We added cosmos and several varieties of sunflowers for 2021 and things went really well. Here's my flower growing playlist: ruclips.net/video/v7ijgH1eLsc/видео.html
Look into Autum Beauty Sunflowers. The grow more like a tall bush, multiple branches per plant and can have dozens of small blooms. Color can be anywhere from yellow, orange and crimson.
Wanting to start in the U pick flower farm, I’d love to know more about the marketing and webpage side of the business. Thank you for the video. Very nice. Curious about the tree too.
I think that is a good sales number so far- and as you said, your season isn't over yet. We have been thinking about doing this for a few years, and think we will try it next year. Do you know roughly how many seeds you planted?
We purchased a 1lb package of mammoth sunflowers, estimated 4700 seeds, and planted about half of that. We also planted 1000 seeds of a Vibrant sunflower mix. Since we used the corn planter, seeds were dropped in about every 8 inches, which is pretty tight for sunflowers, so that in combination in inadequate fertilization they grew relatively small. Mammoths can grow over 10 ft. Most of ours are around 5-6'.
hey Phil. I was wondering the price you put on per sun flower or pound or however you decided to sell them at. Might do this next year to help buy some more seedlings. Were doing a pumpkin patch this year last year was a bust but they seem to be coming along really well this year. Our first year is always a learning year and then its what can we do differently what should have we done before and lets try something new this year. You might want to try pumpkins again take what you learned last year and apply that to the next time. Although water is key we are finding out.
We did $2/stem (some stems have multiple blooms) for the sunflowers, and Zinnias were 2 for $1.
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I'm in the Sustainable Ag program at J. Sarg and I'm working on a hypothetical business plan and I decided to go with a U-Pick Sunflower Farm. I was wondering what do you give customers to cut the flowers with and how many do you have? I found shears for $4.99 on Amazon but I'm having trouble deciding how many to buy as a start up. Thank you!
None. We told people to bring their own
How much did you sell each flower for from sc
We started at $1 a few years ago and do $1.5 now. We also charge admission for everyone 4yo and older.
How often did you water?
Hey, great video. Maybe I missed it but how do you charge? By the stem or per person? I'm thinking about getting started in agrotourism and have watched several videos about upick farms.
I've done a couple videos on the topic since this one came out. There's a flowers playlist on my channel if you want to catch up on some of the others. We charge admission (doesn't include any flowers), and also charge for a container, starting with a 20 oz paper cup for $12. Visitors can cut as much as fits in the container they've paid for. So far its working well for me. I understand some farms don't like that approach, especially if they're growing a larger variety of flowers, including some more exotic or costly flowers. We just do zinnias, cosmos and sunflowers.
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what kind of sunflowers did you plant maybe supplier too thanks
I've done several kinds. Peredovik seed came from our local seed store. Procuts from Johnny's Seed online. I got some Mammoths from Amazon, too.
How much did you charge per flower?
We did $2/ea for sunflowers and zinnias were 2/$1. This year we might charge admission plus cost of flowers.
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What type of sunflowers do you plant?
The bigger patches are black oil type such as peredovik and then we do smaller blocks of specialty types like procuts, dwarfs, branching, etc
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Thank you for sharing! Can I ask about the pricing structure of the you pick? Is there an admission price? Price per stem or per bucket?
in 2020 when this video was filmed we only charged by stem, but in 2021 we did admission, and charged per bucket and per stem for larger flowers. I did a full update with everything we learned and shared details on pricing in this video ruclips.net/video/N5nzrrcUvJQ/видео.html
Any thoughts on reducing liability on your end in case of injury?
We're in Virginia which has agritourism code on the books which states liability is limited for u-pick businesses. I also carry liability insurance which has an endorsement for u-pick activities.
how many pounds of seed per half acre? and where do you purchase your seeds?
What did you charge?
I think when this video was published, it was just $1/stem. We've moved to charging admission plus a cost for flowers. Details are in this newer video: ruclips.net/video/N5nzrrcUvJQ/видео.html
Thank u so much I have one question how much for a person to cut sunflower and how many what’s the cost and u did amazing job I also have a RUclips channel I’m in Indiana
We did $2/stem for sunflowers and 2/$1 for zinnias. This year were going to price different, but not sure exactly how yet. Probably admission+flowers since we offer games and other activities for the whole family
Where did you buy the seed?
My local co-op has or can order black oil seed
What state are you in?
What state are you in?
What state are you in?
What state are you in?
What kind of fertilizer do you use? I am a photographer and hand planted my own small field last year and did a lot of photo sessions and want to enlarge my field this year! You can check out my photos too on my Facebook page facebook.com/picsbytammykc or my IG. @picsbytammerskc. I would love any tips!
Hi there! I suggest you get a soil test done. Look up your county extension office. They probably have a test code for ornamentals or flowers and they'll tell you exactly what you need to add based on your soil properties. The cost could be free (or very minimal). Then you can just buy what you need. We knew our soil was deficient, but didn't follow the recommendations because we had marginal success the previous year. Our blooms weren't what we had hoped, so we added liquid 10-10-10 at the last minute and that kind of turned things around, but the whole crop still wasn't as good as it should have been. Good luck!
How much do you charge for the flowers?
sunflowers $2 per stem, zinnias 2 for $1