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JOIN US THIS SATURDAY MORNING
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GARDEN WORKSHOP
SEED SOWING
SATURDAY APRIL 13TH // 11:00AM // VINEYARD GARDENS
Do you want to learn to sow your plants from seed? Chris Wiley, owner and expert horticulturist, shares her tricks of the trade.
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GROWING EARLY
SPRING EDIBLES
SMALL FRUITS & FRUIT TREES
Spring is the best time to prune your fruit trees, grapes, raspberries and blackberries. It is also the best time to plant small fruits and fruit trees. We have a great selection of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. The early spring selection is best!
All these should be planted very soon!
Rasberry Bare Root
Blueberry Vaccinium Top Hat
Strawberry ‘Fort Laramie’
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STRAWBERRIES
TIPS FOR PLANTING STRAWBERRIES
There is a small window of time in the spring to plant strawberries. Strawberries can be grown in garden beds, containers or hanging baskets. Strawberry flowers attract honeybees and butterflies who pollinate the flowers and ensure fruiting success.
This year we are carrying 4 cultivars of strawberries
Strawberries in 3"black pots / $3.95
Honeoye is our favorite, but all of them are good. Honeoye bears heavy yields of large fruit with a rich color.
Fort Laramie
All Star
Quinalt
Growing potted Strawberries
Provide well drained soil with medium moisture. Amend beds in spring and fall with quality Coast of Maine Lobster Compost or Fafard Premium Compost (we carry both!).
Strawberries are heavy feeders- feed with organic fertilizer from spring to mid summer.
Mulch beds to retain moisture, keep down the weeds and to create a nice clean place for the strawberry fruits to lay on.
Thin beds every few years, favoring the strongest runners.
Strawberry All Star
Strawberry Honeoye
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BLUEBERRIES
We have a wonderful selection of early, mid season and late variety blueberries. Now is the time to get them in the ground. We recommend planting early bearing variety, a mid season variety and a late season variety to extend your blueberry picking season.
Blueberries must be planted in early spring!!
Blueberry Flowers
Low Bush Blueberries
Blueberry Chandler
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GRAPES & FRUIT TREES
GRAPES: Grapes should be pruned as soon as possible on cool days. If pruned much later they will “bleed” sap, much like a maple tree when its tapped for making maple syrup. Pruning for grapes and most fruit trees involves limiting the number of fruits produced as the tree or vine will try to make many more fruits than the tree has the energy to fully mature. Often excess fruits will fall off and the ones remaining may be smaller than on a tree properly pruned. This is also the best time to plant grapes!
FRUIT TREES: We carry apple, pear, peaches, cherry and sour cherry. The sour cherries make the very best pies. Spring is the great time to plant them!
Pruning apple trees: When you are done pruning an apple tree there is usually more on the ground then left on the tree.
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ASPARAGUS & POTATOES
Now available bare root asparagus and potatoes! We have Asparagus Bareroot Millenium & Asparagus Purple Passion. The Potatoes we carry are Amarosa, French Fingerling, Russet Burbank, Russian Banana and Red Norland.
Asparagus Bundles of 5 / $12,95, Bundles of 10 / $19.95 & Bundles of 25 / $31.95
Asparagus Millenium bundles of 5
Asparagus Purple Passion Bundles of 10
Asparagus Purple Passion Bundles of 25
Potato amarosa
Potato Russian banana
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GREENS & COOL
WEATHER VEGGIES
Grow your own Greens
Salad material, lettuce, spinach, endive, mignonette
The lettuces and the cilantro, in particular, can be done by direct seeding in Mid April.
Start the other herbs and cool weather veggies inside first and then plant out as seedlings.
WE GROW ALL THESE IN PACKS FROM SEED . WE HAVE A WONDERFUL SELECTION OF SEEDS & WILL HAVE A GREAT VARIETY OF PACK SELECTIONS!
COOL WEATHER VEGGIES
Brassicas (like broccoli), Cauliflower, Cabbage, Kale, Swiss Chard, Mustards, Collards
Red Leaf Salad
Mesculin Mix Asian Salad Greens
Mustard Greens
