Dahlias: Re-Staking & Thwarting Earwigs, Blush Flowers Needed, Dynamic Pricing, and How Intention & Values Shape Growing

Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 22 July 2025 and I've had to put a jumper on this evening for the first time in months.

So much to tell you about this evening: I've been batch cooking dinners, collecting lots of rainwater, staking dahlias (properly this time), removing dahlia leaves to discourage earwigs, and deadheading cornflowers like mad (again). I've also had to deal with an unpleasant red mite infestation in the henhouse.

I've been doing a lot of thinking this week: how can I have more blush-coloured flowers next year as I don't have anywhere near enough, the power of intention, how your values impact the way you grow, and how to find customers who really want organically-grown seasonal blooms so that my hard work isn't wasted. Pricing continues to blow my mind and it's turned dynamic which adds a whole new dimension to the challenge of working out how on earth to price stems.

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