Notes
Vegmo Snowball. Cut when 50% of buttons are open. Perennial treated as hardy annual.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Vegmo Snowball
Feverfew · Tanacetum parthenium
DTM
93 d
134 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
3
9 in in-row
Density
4
plants / bed-ft
Yield
9
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$7.29
$0.90 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Filler · 18 in stem
- Support netting
- 1-layer Hortonova · 8 in mesh · 14 in
- Pinch
- 6 in · leave 3 nodes · +8 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- ½ open · every 4 d
- Stem yield
- 8 / plant · 9 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 8 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 93 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
- 93 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 134 d
- Multicut
- yes · 6 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 9
- Avg unit wt
- 0 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.45 / $0.90
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.9 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 70.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.2 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.7 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.6 / 0.2 / 0.9 lb
- Family
- Asteraceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-01-28
- First harvest
- 2026-06-05
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 206 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 236 seeds · 200 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $182.25 / $364.50
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel