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GROWING VEGGIES.

                START READING THE OLDEST BLOG IF YOU ARE NEW AT GARDENING, LOTS OF IMPORTANT INFO STARTING THERE.

Gardening season about to start!

4/25/2019

 
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Tiny weeds about to ruin my garden. One tank of glyphosate is all I need to kill ‘em off. Yup. Roundup. Go ahead and use it in your garden with absolutely no fear. Just don’t be stupid and spray it on your skin. Don’t inhale the spray. Don’t drink it! Don’t spray it on food crops like the criminal farmers do. Read more about roundup below.

​My frost date is 5/15/19. Don’t plant before that no matter how tempted you are. Some wait till Memorial Day..

It’s veggie time!

4/23/2019

 
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Peetee, the incredible nursery dog warming in the sun this morning on a soft bed of mulch.
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Great gardens start with great seeds. Not the same-ol, same-ol stuff (we have that too)
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You gotta start some seeds inside in seed starting soil that contains no “dirt.” This company is the marijuana grower’s favorite potting soil. I figure if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for us.
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LETS GET RID OF PLASTIC WHEN POSSIBLE! These pots are made of compressed cow dung! How cool. Start the seeds in these pots then plant the entire pot in the ground. No pollution. Try em.
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These are great little seed starter thingys also. Plop the tiny seeds into the tiny well then place in a tray of good old H2O then watch em grow. Plant the entire thingy after the frost date.
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Back to marijuana growers favorite brand. For container gardening use this stuff. No gravel on the bottom. Don’t use same soil year to year because of pathogens and disease spores in last years soil- you would be asking for trouble.
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Coconut fiber cells for starting seeds- an efficient way to start seeds for a space saving way to grow exactly what you want in the quantity needed. Plant the entire cell coconut fiber pot, plant and all!
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Then refill the plastic tray (use it over and over) with the coconut pot refills. Efficient space savers!
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All this talk of starting up the garden either bores my dog Peetee or tired her out. She never tells me which.

PRETTY SOON...

4/9/2019

 
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...pretty soon you will not need to buy this chemical-laden stuff, it’ll be coming out of your garden!!!

BEST NEWS IN THE WORLD!!!

4/4/2019

 
We just ordered a bunch of veggie seeds from a very unique grower! Lots of really interesting varieties of flowers and veggies I didn’t know existed
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I was never a fan of seeds till last year when I sprinkled them into trenches for the first time. Radishes, carrots, arugula. Best arugula over ever had. I would sometimes just sit in front of the row to pick/eat/pick/eat/pick/eat. I’m pretty sure that no arugula ever actually made it into the kitchen. That experience sold me on the seeding method.... not to mention how cheap in comparison seeds are. The best thing though, is the varieties we can get now from seeds- stuff I’ve never seen before! Check out the white-tipped radishes we have- so cool.

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After Christmas until early March we are at the nursery infrequently. You can leave a message on the phone but it might be some time before we get back to you.

Note- Inclement weather changes our hours. If in doubt, call us. Inclement weather includes extreme heat and cold, extreme snow and rain.

Winter- call and leave a message. We go in every now and then, we will call you back.




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  • Home
  • Wildflower meadows as an option to toxic lawns
  • How To Grow Birches
  • How to Save The Monarch Butterfly
  • FALL HORTICULTURE
  • Planting
    • Planting
    • Feeding
    • Watering
  • Products
    • Shrubs >
      • Trees
    • Bulk Mulch >
      • Firewood
    • Topsoil
    • Perennials
  • Veggie blog
  • fall 2018
  • Frequently Asked
    • About
  • Surfing
  • Gallery
  • Summer Horticulture
  • spring horticulture