Starting our Happy Valley Grower Peony farm
We started the Peony section at our Happy Valley Grower Peony farm this year and have made a lot of progress as you can see from the photo.
We have now virtually completed our peony planting.. There we were (my husband, my garden helpers and myself) in the intermittent rain and sun digging holes, moving soil, mixing compost, laying out the rows for the peonies, dividing tubers, and then planting a total of more than 150 peony root tubers.
There are 2 sites at the Peony Farm - one for the plants we are growing for propagation and the other for the peony plants for sale.
It is so exciting , looking so beautiful, and the flowers aren’t even in bloom yet. As a matter of fact, there is nothing showing yet other than my signs,. a few tubers barely breaking ground and the muddy footprints.
Dirty as we were, we are excitedly looking forward to Spring. Just imagine the mass of vibrant, colorful, and amazingly huge Peony flowers in bloom come May. What a sight that will be!
Tomorrow is reserved for my own garden where I will tend to my plants and do the fall chores of cutting back plants and preparing to put to bed the plants for fall.
This is how a healthy bare root peony looks like.
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