If you ever want to find out what is going on in the garden just drop by the local nursery and listen to the other customers talking about their gardens. Chances are that whatever your fellow gardeners are experiencing is also happening in your garden. Here are some hot topics I have heard the last couple of weeks.
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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Trevor Cameron
There are many things I enjoy about my job (if you can’t tell) and towards the top of the list is the official duty of local plant enabler. Nothing brings more joy to plant junkies like me than…