Moringa Trees available here...April 26, 2014

Moringa trees have several nicknames such as drumstick tree and horseradish tree, but "miracle tree" seems to be the most popular nickname these days. Described as easy to grow and wonderful to eat, moringa has a long history of culinary and medicinal uses. If you decide to give this tree a try in your yard, have a pruning plan, as it is reported to grow fast and tall, making harvest of its nutritious leaves and pods difficult!

Spring Art in the Garden Saturday, May 3, 2014 9am-4pm This annual event is a wonderful time to visit the nursery, with new blooms and fresh green popping up everywhere! Tables will be set up among the shrubs and trees with local craftspeople displaying and selling the products of their talent. This is a free event with free, offsite shuttle parking available.

Interested in being an Art in the Garden vendor? Read our vendor FAQ page with all the details on how to register.

Available in the nursery this weekend:

• Grow your own Stevia! 4" pots, $3.19 each (located in the herbs)
• white sage - 4" pots for $3.19
• tree collards, tree kales, walking stick kale, perennial broccoli - 1 gallon pots for $9.99 each
• tomatoes and peppers in Dig 'em Ups
• big selection of assorted veggies in 4" pots
• variety packs - assortment of 6 plants per pack
• A fresh shipment of herbs came in this week.

  

Coming soon! New play-ground buildings are almost complete. Thank you for your patience!

About those potatoes and tomatoes...January 28, 2014

Getting ready to plant your spring tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers?We have received lots of phone calls from our gardening community wanting to know when these plants will be available. The tomatoes and peppers we have seeded will be ready for sale the first of March! Seed potatoes will be arriving in a couple of weeks. We'll keep you posted.

Until then...prepare!

How is your soil? Bring a sample to the nursery for a test. We sell soil, amendments, and mulch to help your plants grow healthy and reduce their water consumption. We offer soil and mulch in bags or bulk.

We have a few stock tanks left that can serve as long-lasting raised beds.

Think olla for your summer vegetables! An olla is a clay pot used for irrigation. It is buried in the ground to supply water to surrounding plants at their roots which will grow towards and around the pot. This is an ancient and effective way to irrigate with less water.

Do ollas work?

Well, this writer bought one right away last fall when they arrived at the nursery. Around it I planted a purple cabbage, one collard, and two kales. As an experiment, I planted another collard about two feet away. As we all know, there has been no rain to interfere with my informal experiment.

This picture was taken last November. The olla has a little dinosaur standing on it, and above it is the collard. It was already starting to outdistance the other collard at the far right. Today it is much bigger. If I took a picture now, the olla could not be seen under all the kale and collard leaves. The collard to the right away from the olla is about half its size. I now have four ollas and look forward to having a few summer vegetables. Ordinarily my summer vegetables don't fare so well due to the fact that I am way too stingy with the water.

Available now and ready for planting:

• vegetables in 4" pots and dig 'em ups
• 6-packs of assorted lettuce
• vegetable variety packs
• a large variety of succulents

More house plants on the way!

For any of these items, we encourage you to call for availability.

 

Thistles in the yard...December 20, 2013

When are thistles in your yard a good thing? When you plant artichokes, you are adding edible, beautiful thistles to your garden!

What we eat is the flower bud and stem.

Once an artichoke blooms, it is inedible, but it becomes a unique dried garden sculpture that lasts for months.

We have 5-gallon artichokes for sale: $11.89 each

(Put some pretty paper around the pot with a bow and you have a one-of-a-kind gift!)

Also available are 5-gallon containers of rhubarb for sale: $9.89 each

We have plenty of vegetables and herbs. Yes! You can still start or add to a winter garden!

Please remember that we are closing at 2:00 pm Tuesday, December 24. We will reopen Thursday, January 2. Plan a January visit to see all that our Clean-Sweep Week will accomplish!