Our Mulch Madness sale begins next week.  Get a jump start on your spring clean up and save some money, too.  Order a load of mulch (3 yard minimum for this offer) and take delivery by April 10th, and we’ll deliver withing 25 miles of the Garden Center for FREE!  Hurry! Offer ends April 5th.  Call for details (740-546-4467.)

We have seed potatoes and onion sets in stock now, for those of you who have raised beds or soil that is well-drained enough to be workable this early.  (Years ago the tradition was to plant seed potatoes on St Patrick’s Day, March 17th.  I have a raised bed that is ready, so I’m going to start them that day and see if the old farmers are right.)

The cabbage-family plants are being hardened off outdoors, too and will be ready for you this week.

We’ve started to plant up our beautiful combination baskets that you love so well!  The flowering plants are arriving as plugs, and we’re transplanting them into the baskets.  By Mother’s Day they will be beautiful, full baskets dripping with color!  We keep careful notes from year to year about what combinations looked good, held up over the growing season, and were the most popular, and we eliminate the not-so-good ones, and grow more of the good ones.  By tweaking the selection, we make sure we have the ones you like when you are ready for them.  They grow like thunder once the sun comes out to heat up the greenhouses.

We know you are as anxious for Spring as we are.  You (or your neighbors) came out in force on Saturday, the first day we were open, to buy pansies, to order fruit trees and to just get a shot of spring from the earthy smell of the greenhouses. 

Rain is predicted for later in the week, and that’ll set back our gardening efforts.  But it’s coming! I can feel it!

We send you an Irish blessing on this St Patrick’s Day evening:

May the rains sweep gentle across your fields,
May the sun warm the land,
May every good seed you have planted bear fruit,
And late summer find you standing in fields of plenty.

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill on St Patrick’s Day evening.