Notes
Pre-chill seed 5 d. Cut when bells are developed, flowers still small. Spike + filler.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Bells of Ireland
Bells of Ireland · Moluccella laevis
DTM
90 d
109 d occupancy · tender
Rows
3
9 in in-row
Density
4
plants / bed-ft
Yield
5
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$6.16
$1.40 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Spike · 24 in stem
- Support netting
- 1-layer Hortonova · 8 in mesh · 16 in
- Pinch
- Do not pinch
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 5 d
- Stem yield
- 3 / plant · 5 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 8 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 90 d field-to-cut
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 35 d
- Germination
- 12 d
- Germ temp
- 55°F – 75°F (opt 65°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 9 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 4
- Plants / 50 ft
- 200
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 90 d
- Holding
- 14 d
- Occupancy
- 109 d
- Multicut
- yes · 2 cuts · 5 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 5
- Avg unit wt
- 0.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.75 / $1.40
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 77.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.3 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.7 / 0.2 / 0.9 lb
- Family
- Lamiaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-12
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-11
- First harvest
- 2026-07-14
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 190 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 236 seeds · 200 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $165.00 / $308.00
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel