Tis The Season To Plant Seedlings
While everyone is running around finishing holiday shopping, we’re busier than Santa’s elves in our greenhouse. Introducing a few new techniques and tricks of the trade, we’ve been hard at work planting and preparing our herbs and flowers for their debut this spring. Take a look…
Shorter Days Mean A Need For More Light
As the sun began setting here in Zone 7 yesterday, I looked at my watch and couldn’t believe that it was only four o’clock! While the darkness descended around our farm, I thought to myself how depressing the winter months can be for gardeners. What is an avid gardener to do? Bring your herb garden indoors and make your own light!
Herb Gardening: A Label of Love!
Give green with great stocking stuffers for the gardeners on your list this year! A great way to add personality to your garden (and help you recall what you planted!) is to label your plants with plant markers.
A Cosmos of Color
When gas prices began to spike a few years ago, we began to look around the farm for ways to decrease our gas consumption. Most of our tasks are essential to farm operations so our attention quickly focused on all the grass we had to mow.
An Old Favorite
Of all the plants in one’s garden, there are always a few that become our favorite. Salvia Coral Nymph is one of those plants for me.
Never Say Never
Those that know me from my pre-internet days, will remember me as a Neo-Luddite in my aversion to incorporating technology into the daily operations of The Growers Exchange. My long stand against the fax machine was most certainly my most stubbornly counter productive vendetta.
A Legacy of Bulbs
Our farm is home to I don’t know how many daffodils, they were first planted in the 1940’s when my mother-in-law bought the remaining inventory of a down on his luck bulb merchant, who is rumored to have also been a relative.
Unwelcomed Visitor
At The Grower’s Exchange, we like to peacefully share our space with the critters that live around us. We pride ourselves on using natural methods of growing that also encourage the growth of allies in the fight against pests: tree frogs, toads, skinks, black snakes and lizards. We use methods that don’t bother these guys…
Eat Your Greens
Gardening is a never-ending series of cycles. We garden by season, and change our practices of sowing, tending and harvesting to match nature’s time clock. Gardening gets complicated as we expand the list of plants we wish to grow; annuals, perennials, herbs and veggies all have seasonal lifecycles the gardener tries to satisfy…