Notes
Summer Pastels. Cut when umbel is 80% colored. Drought-lean. Dries.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Summer Pastels
Yarrow · Achillea millefolium
DTM
90 d
131 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
3
12 in in-row
Density
3
plants / bed-ft
Yield
5
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.40
$1.20 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Filler · 20 in stem
- Support netting
- None — self-supporting
- Pinch
- Do not pinch
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 5 d
- Stem yield
- 6 / plant · 5 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 10 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 90 d field-to-cut
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 42 d
- Germination
- 12 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
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 3
- Plants / 50 ft
- 150
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 90 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 131 d
- Multicut
- yes · 5 cuts · 5 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 5
- Avg unit wt
- 0.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.60 / $1.20
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
- 1.1 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 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
- 2026-01-21
- First harvest
- 2026-06-02
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 223 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 177 seeds · 150 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $135.00 / $270.00
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel