May Garden Solutions
As summer arrives with warmer temperatures, our garden gurus are answering questions about how to care for plants during this transition. For the month of May, we're providing advice about watering, tree trunk care, and pests.
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Twining & Climbing Vines
A vining, twining plant could be the perfect fit for an area in your garden. Vines add beauty, provide shade, invite pollinators, hide fences and walls—they can basically do it all! Read on for six vine recommendations; four of the vines are self-directed about how they grow, and the remaining varieties will need support to keep them in place and growing in the right direction.
Success with Fruit Trees
There is something very satisfying about planting a tree and nurturing it to produce delicious, fresh fruit. We all want fruit trees that thrive and provide enough fruit to share with family, friends, and the entire neighborhood—and the way in which we water, fertilize, prune, and thin will influence how much the tree produces each year. Read on for tips.
Edible Gardening
If you’re looking to grow fruit that can be enjoyed by the whole family, consider planting blueberries. The taste, health benefits, and beauty of the plants themselves, make blueberries a very popular addition for many gardens. Read on for advice on how to choose, plant, and care for these easy-care edibles.
April Garden Solutions
April brings higher temperatures with just the right amount of humidity, and earwigs, mosquitoes and aphids start showing up in the garden. Our garden gurus have been getting a lot of questions about these pesky visitors, and we have answers about the best way to take care of them.
Wild Boar Farms
We're happy to partner with Wild Boar Farms this year to provide interesting tomato varieties that have colorful characteristics alongside unforgettable flavor.
Below is a list of the Wild Boar varieties we're offering at our nurseries this season, including a few favorites from last season—like Brad's Atomic Grape and Pineapple Pig. Other varieties are new and ready for a taste test... Atomic Fusion, anyone?
Below is a list of the Wild Boar varieties we're offering at our nurseries this season, including a few favorites from last season—like Brad's Atomic Grape and Pineapple Pig. Other varieties are new and ready for a taste test... Atomic Fusion, anyone?
Selecting Soils
The soils at our nurseries are created to completely support plants in pots and raised beds. All of our soils are locally sourced, and none contain bio-solids or construction waste. We are proud to say that all of our E.B. Stone™ Organics and G&B soil options are organically certified.
Edible Gardening
The taste of home-grown, fresh tomatoes is one of the joys of our long, hot summers. Get the most our of your tomato harvest with these tips about soil, fertilizer, irrigation, tomato cages, and tips to prevent common diseases and insects that like tomatoes as much as we do!
March Garden Solutions
Our garden gurus have been getting questions about insect pests this month,
and we’d like to share with you the best practices for taking care of some
unwanted visitors. Snails and slugs, aphids, mosquitoes, spittlebugs and more,
top the "to-do" list this month.
and we’d like to share with you the best practices for taking care of some
unwanted visitors. Snails and slugs, aphids, mosquitoes, spittlebugs and more,
top the "to-do" list this month.
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