The nursery is now closed for the season - we'll be re-opening again in mid-April 2009. I want to thank all of our customers this year for supporting us, and for "showing us the love" towards our new native line-up. Thanks to a demonstrated demand, we are going to be able to go 100% native as of 2009!
This is an exciting development, and I will be spending the winter researching the initial line-up of native trees and shrubs to add to our existing perennial inventory. If you have some favorites you'd like to be sure to see, please email me. What I'll be going for are native plants that have a high value in the landscape and that also have a high value to wildlife. Lucky for me, I already did some of this research last winter, and published the results on the Sugarbush site with a neat list compiled from two different sources. Be sure to check this out if you haven't already.
Some garden tips for the season:
Don't let your fall leaves go to waste! Raking them up and bagging them for the curb is like giving away money and nutrients. You can shred those leaves and add them to your compost pile, or shred them and spread them directly on your garden now as a mulch. Either use will provide numerous benefits for your garden. The shredding is an important step to expose more surface areas of the leaves - otherwise they take a long time to break down. You can buy a shredder (I have a Flowtron), run over a pile of leaves with your lawnmower, or suck them up in a leaf vaccum that will shred them for you.
Apply corn gluten meal now on your lawn to take care of the annual weeds that germinate about now. The next application time is spring, when the forsythia is blooming.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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