Hello. It's Friday 7 November 2025. Welcome to tonight's episode.

Tonight it's all about mistakes I've made in 2025 because I've been thinking like a gardener rather than a cut flower grower. I have therefore compiled a list of the Top 10 mistakes I've made and I thought I'd share them with you in the hope that you won't make them!

There are many benefits to having a background in gardening if you're thinking of establishing a cut flower grower (although I'd argue that a knowledge of marketing would probably be more helpful at times). The benefits include knowing how to grow and look after plants, experience of sowing seeds and propagating, pruning, composting and mulching, when plants flower, the list goes on and on. 

But there are some gardening habits that are ingrained in me that have caused me some problems when I have been growing cut flowers this year, including issues with spacing, staking, cutting, getting rid of non-productive plants, disbudding (properly), giving plants too many chances to improve, underestimating wear and tear on paths and high-traffic areas, not writing things down and not breaking the year down into a schedule of tasks to be done at the right time (and not getting distracted).

So I hope that you find this episode helpful! And I hope that you will come back and join me for the next episode when I'll have more news. I really hope that you will join me.

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