When I purchased Sunnyside Nursery in the fall of 1989, there was a large fig tree (actually a bush) growing in the back yard next to the old carriage house… Little did I know that a cutting from that very same fig would find its way back to the nursery almost 25 years later…
General Gardening
It pains me to see customers spending hundreds of dollars on new plants and simultaneously refusing to spend a few more on a bag or two of compost and a box of starter fertilizer. These two items are not unnecessary “add-ons” that the retailer is just trying to add to the sale, they are critical components of a successful transplanting process - or as I like to refer to them as “plant insurance”. Unless you have phenomenal soil, you should always add compost and starter fertilizers when you are planting new plants. Here is why…
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The Golfing Gardener
Trevor Cameron
Now that spring has officially sprung to life, I find myself gazing upwards and admiring flowering trees everywhere. At the garden center, driving around town, walking around my neighborhood, traversing the local golf course… it is impossible not to be…