We are stocking seeding heat mats, green house trays and grow lights.

This is the year of the vegetable garden. Using good seed and hydrofarm products will help you to be successful in growing strong and healthy plants that produce more flavor and greater quantity.

“Hydrofarm’s heating mats delivered the best results we’ve had with tomatoes.”- Sunset Magazine.

We look forward to seeing you and helping you with all your gardening needs.
Lisa and Diane.

Now is a great time to plant winter pansy’s, primroses and hellebores for early spots of color.
You can also get started on planting trees and shrubs.

Christmas has arrived. Our staff is busy decorating trees it’s a big job as we are having 12 theme trees this year. You will find a great array of nutcrackers, snow globes, wreaths and decorations.
LED lights are the way to go, they are a bit more expensive than the traditional lights but will more than pay for them selves with the oodles of electricity you will save. We have a variety of styles in our gift shop.
Again we are offering top quality fresh cut Christmas trees from the Hunter family tree farm in Shelton. This year we will also offer trees from Evergreen West trees also from Shelton. Diane and myself had the opportunity to visit this farm and hand select our trees they are beautiful, the Nobles we selected have more of an open look so you can hang those large ornaments. Again this year we will have a small selection of flocked trees. You can buy mixed greens, garland by the foot or in 25’ and 100’ rolls, wreaths with pinecones and holly. And don’t forget our florist quality poinsettias.

So keep an eye on us our stock changes constantly. On most of our gift store items is a one-time thing so if you like it you better buy it, it might not be their next time you stop in.

It is also a great time to get trees, shrubs and your winter color perennials planted. Plants to consider would be winter pansies, kale, hellebores (winter roses), wintergreen and grasses just to mention a few. After planting put a nice layer of mulch down to protect the roots, encourage earthworms and discourage weeds, we suggest Gardner & Bloom Soil Building Compost it is 100% natural and organic, provides essential nutrients for plant growth, it will also help loosen and improve hard compacted clay soil.

Now is not the time to forget about your vegetable garden. For those established gardens, clean out spent plants into the compost pile, add Soil Building Compost or compost from your own pile, this will encourage earthworms. When this is completely mixed in plant a cover crop such as crimson clover, then in the early spring you will simply turn your cover crop under.

Next on the to-do list is to clean up and cut back your gardens before winter sets in. Your will want to pull or hoe weeds that have recently germinated, mulch all your gardens this will protect your plants from frost, and your gardens from erosion and your soil from becoming compacted, it also adds much need organic matter to the soil.

Cut back late flowering perennials such as asters and mums to a few inches above the soil. Peonies and bleeding hearts should be cut all the way to the ground and their crowns, mulch to protect them from hard freezes. Get rid of all those summer annuals that have died back, clean up all leaves around your rose bushes, any kind of bugs or fungus on fallen leaves will show up next year so it is best to get them pick up and in the garbage not your compost pile. Trees and shrubs should be pruned to prevent winter storm breakage.

Finally lets not forget about our feathered friends. You’ve been feeding them all summer, they love your yard and are counting on you to get them through the winter so keep those feeders full, after they have finished feasting on the bounty of seeds and berries this time of year they will remember your feeder and expect them to be full. Some foods to offer would be black oil sunflower seeds, a good quality seed mix and suet. Your birds will be Happy, Happy, Happy!!!!

If you like feeding the squirrels corn cobs, and nuts should keep them happy. To prevent them from burying nut all over your yard provide them with shelled nuts. Are squirrels eating your bulbs? When planting them try covering your bulbs with a ½” to 1” size chicken wire (you can find this at your local hardware store) and cover with dirt, this will discourage those crafty squirrels and bulbs have no problem growing through the mesh.

Our other ‘baby’ – the garden center – continues to pass new milestones as we search for new plants and garden products for you. Lisa has discovered a line of hyra-grow systems allowing new and experienced gardeners new ways to grow vegetables and other plants in limited space. She has also brought in a line of work gloves just for women and some of the pretties plastic pots you’ve ever seen.

Don’t let your garden go dormant now that summer is over. Fall Magic annuals provide superior color and blooms until winter. Come in and choose from our varied selection and also take a look at Diane’s large selection of grand-baby pictures.

Just in time for fall, we have expanded our line of Root candles (simply the best candles you can buy) and have a large supply of wood pellets and fire pits and heaters for staying out late in the evening.

Cooler temperatures also bring the red, yellow and orange display that many plants put on before their leaves drop to the ground.

Blueberries have exceptional fall color as well as tasty fruit for much of the summer. We suggest planting at least three different varieties for better pollination and to prolong the months of harvest. Heathers and Enkianthus are other fabulous fall plants.