Notes
Silver Dust. Foliage cuts. Keep dry-ish. Hardy silver mixer.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Silver Dust
Dusty miller · Jacobaea maritima
DTM
70 d
133 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
3
9 in in-row
Density
4
plants / bed-ft
Yield
6
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.52
$1.00 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Foliage · 14 in stem
- Support netting
- None — self-supporting
- Pinch
- 6 in · leave 3 nodes · +0 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 7 d
- Stem yield
- 6 / plant · 6 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 10 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 70 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 35 d
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 78°F (opt 70°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
- 70 d
- Holding
- 28 d
- Occupancy
- 133 d
- Multicut
- yes · 6 cuts · 7 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 6
- Avg unit wt
- 0 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.2 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.50 / $1.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.8 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 62.3
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.25 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.5 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.5 / 0.1 / 0.8 lb
- Family
- Asteraceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-01-28
- First harvest
- 2026-05-13
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 227 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 236 seeds · 200 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $138.00 / $276.00
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel