Wacky Wednesday October 2, 2024

Two Great Ways to Save!8″ mum in self-watering deco pot3 for $10Add Fall Color to your Landscape The Autumn Sunset™ mum is an ideal choice for adding vibrant color to fall window boxes and containers, making it effortless to revive your late-season landscape. Since they are planted in a self-watering container, care becomes even simpler! This striking bicolor mum blooms like a cluster of mini sunflowers, with vivid orange and yellow centers surrounded by red-orange petals. Mums also provides a …

Grow Better Plants with Espoma Bio-tone Fertilizer

Using Espoma Bio-tone when planting offers a range of in-depth benefits that promote healthy, thriving plants: Enhanced Root Development: Bio-tone contains a unique blend of mycorrhizae and beneficial microbes that encourage robust root systems. These microorganisms form symbiotic relationships with plant roots, improving their ability to absorb water and nutrients, resulting in stronger and more resilient plants. Improved Nutrient Uptake: The organic ingredients in Bio-tone improve the soil’s structure and fertility, making essential nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium more …

Unveiling the Underground Wonders: The Incredible Benefits of Earthworms in Your Garden

Welcome to the hidden world beneath our feet, where tiny heroes don’t wear capes but play a crucial role in the health and vitality of our gardens. Enter the Earthworm – nature’s diligent gardeners that bring a plethora of benefits to your green haven. Let’s dig into the captivating story of how these wriggly wonders transform the soil into a thriving ecosystem. Aeration Maestros: Picture your garden soil as a bustling metropolis, and earthworms as expert urban planners. Their burrowing …

Kalamazoo, Michigan | Main Streets

Television host John McGivern travels the Upper Midwest to celebrate the people who live there and the unique attractions, history and businesses of each community in a show called Main Streets. Last year, John made a stop in Kalamazoo. Have you seen this episode about our great city? Wenke president, Lisa Wenke Ambrosio, has the opportunity to talk about the greenhouse industry and how her family started as celery farmers here in Kalamazoo. Check it out!

Wine and Roses Weigela

Add Season Long Color to Your Gardens Wine and Roses Weigela is one of those “boy I wish I would have planted this sooner” shrubs. Its striking dark burgundy leaves provide a fantastic enhancement or background to your garden or entry way. The leaf color continues to intensify as summer progresses. Its rosy-pink trumpet shaped flowers bloom in spring and then again throughout the summer. Hummingbirds love the flowers. A cut branch of Wine and Roses Weigela in a flower …

Container Gardening Guideline

Container Gardens are extremely popular for their instant beauty, ease of growing and versatility. Planting in the ground can sometimes feel like work.  But planting container gardens is just plain fun.  Container gardens are relatively easy – just a few basic things to remember.  1.  Selecting a container – A good rule is that larger is better. A larger container will hold more soil so it won’t dry out as fast. A heavy container may be necessary to keep it …

Ride the Wave

Wave® Petunias are perfect for your summer gardens. The abundant blooms will flower continuously all summer long in full sun. Wave® Petunias create a ground-hugging carpet of color and are perfect for flower beds, hanging baskets, containers and window boxes. Plant the Wave® Petunias 12in. apart in planting beds and watch them spread up to 4 ft! These easy-to-maintain plants are ‘self-cleaning’ meaning there is no need for you to cut back or ‘dead-head’ the spent blooms. They will simply drop old blooms …

Grafted vs. Own-Root Roses, So What’s the Big Deal?

Most roses grown for sale to homeowners are produced by grafting the desired rose variety onto a rooted understock of a different rose variety, often Dr. Huey or Multiflora for northern climates, or fortuniana in southern or western climates. There are several reasons this is done: Growers are able to obtain many more propagation materials by taking bud eyes to graft versus cuttings to root, which can be especially important when there is high demand for a new variety. It …