The Flower Farmer's Year: How to Grow Cut Flowers for Pleasure and Profit

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The Flower Farmer's Year is a light, entertaining look at how to plant, maintain, and keep evolving a productive cut-flower garden. Whether you want to devote a corner of your garden to a stand of sweet peas and some cosmos, take up flower production for gate sales, or make a livelihood from cut flowers, Georgie Newbery will take you through everything from planning your garden to budgeting and marketing. With plenty of stories about mistakes she's made along the way, this book is a practical manual that teaches how to get involved in local, sustainable flower production for the home or commercially.

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