Mr. Burger says it’s time to get the garden planted with your summer time favorite vegetables. Cole crop plants like Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Collards, Kale, Kohlrabi and Swiss Chard, can be planted in early to middle April; but some crops need warmer air and soil temperatures. Plants like Cantaloupe, Watermelon, Peppers, Tomatoes, […]
Squash (the) Vine Borer
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cabbage worms, and squash vine borers. No, that’s not how the old nursery rhyme goes, but it’s how some of our gardens are. It’s no wonder that while we are excited to reap the benefits of growing food at home, and we […]
Cold Crop Plants are Here!
All your favorite “cold tolerate” vegetable plants are here. Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussel Spouts, Cabbage and more are now available. We also have some early herb plants and a great early selection of berry plants – blue berry, raspberry, black berry and strawberry. Rhubarb plants are just starting to poke their heads up out of the […]
Protect your plants from freezing night time temperatures
Protect your plants from freezing night time temperatures It doesn’t seem fair that Mother Nature blesses us with a few 70 degree, sunny days that wake up our “sleeping beauty” flowering trees and shrubs and then sends us nighttime temperatures below freezing for two nights in a row. These freezing temperatures can be very detrimental […]
Get your garden started now!
While the days are cold and dreary and maybe even a little snow on the ground; now is actually the time to start thinking about starting your own garden vegetable plants indoors from seed. Many vegetables have suggested indoor seed starting dates in the date range mid February to mid March. What a great way […]
Lawn Care Simplified
SPRING LAWN CARE SIMPLIFIED – OUR GUIDE TO ACHIEVING A SPECTACULAR LAWN We hear it all the time, “I just want a pretty lawn, but I’ve got some weeds and some bare spots. What do I do first?” The truth is that there is not one correct answer because so much depends on the current […]
Fall Garden Planting
For the last few weeks, you’ve been (hopefully) enjoying some wonderful harvests from your summer vegetable, flower and herb gardens. You’ve been watching your tomatoes grow to the perfect size and the perfect shade of red or yellow, you’re about to have more cucumbers than even the most prolific pickle fanatic could shake a stick […]
Late to the party- our favorite “late” bloomers
In most cases, mid July isn’t considered late summer- technically it’s still the first month, but a gardener’s calendar and mind can look at time a little differently. Even though there’s a full two months until the first official day of Autumn, we’re now in what can be considered the throes of summer, and you […]
From (A)pples to (Z)ucchini
Some of you may be lucky enough to be harvesting some crops from your home gardens by now. Namely, summer squash like straightneck yellow squash & zucchini. Zucchini & yellow squash have a shorter growing season than a lot of other crops, so even with the Mother’s Day Freeze of 2020, if you were careful, […]
Here Comes the Sun: Summer Solstice & the garden pest of the week
It may have felt a little more like summer this week, and hopefully your lawn & garden are hitting their summer stride as well- because ready or not, it’s officially here! The June or summer solstice, marking the first day of the season is Saturday, June 20, 2020. In the southern hemisphere, the June solstice […]
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