How to Make Neil’s Flower Frames for supporting and protecting cut flowers
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Neil’s our own ‘invention’ to tackle the problem the time taken to stake cut flowers for poker straight stems with the option to add rain covers to stop blooms being damaged in our British Summers.
If you would like to make the optional lids, you can find a separate video below.
These double as Cold Frames and extend our season here allowing earlier planting.
Essentially portable greenhouses, Dahlia Tubers can be over wintered in situ, Lids/covers are raised as plants grow and weather improves…
In a small garden Neil’s new quarter sized frame will extend the season in your garden, the things you can grow, be the cold frame you thought you didn’t have room for AND sort out all the staking and supporting.
If you are going into flower farming then your flowers have to be of a high enough standard to compete!
Part two – Lids
I use these lids for so many things, a cold frame, a cloche, a roof for your plants!
The original reason for them was to protect Wedding Flowers being grown to order from weather damage (e.g. rain and hail).
However now the uses are endless For Dahlia’s they are useful year round allowing us to ‘over winter’ tubers in the ground by keeping the ground dry. It’s the freezing water that does the damage.
As well as keeping the ground dry, adding lids to an empty bed will enable you to get a head start on Spring planting in the ground by warming it up and drying it out after winter.
In the Spring placed low as a cloche they protect tender plants from cold shock, hardening them off and protecting from frosts.
Then in Summer they help protect flowers from burning in intense heatwaves, the polythene is slightly opaque and diffuses the light.
Unlike a greenhouse or polytunnel the sides are open to the breeze keeping plants healthy and cool.
Flower Frames
Our own ‘invention’ these double Plant Staking with Cold Frames and extend our season here in the Chiltern Hills right on the Buckinghamshire / Bedfordshire border…
Essentially portable greenhouses
Tubers can be over wintered in situ
Lids/covers are raised as plants grow and weather improves…
Eventually all plastic and lids are removed to prevent any overheating as we head into summer.
As Autumn approaches the lids return…
Blue Print Building Plan
We’ll be here to cover the whole flower growing year. Thank you for following your support really does means so much x
Love
Zoe and Neil xxx
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