Summer 1995
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Save those 1-gallon plastic milk jugs! They're invaluable for watering plants. After planting annuals, perennials or small nursery stock (use several jugs for shrubs and small trees), simply put 3-5 pin-holes in the bottom of the jug, remove the plastic cap and sit the jug right next to the plant. In five or six hours, all the water will slowly drip into the ground and can be uptaken by the newly-installed plant.
Adding a transplant fertilizer (5-10-5, 15-30-15 or something similar with a high phosphorous middle number) is a good idea to help the root system repair itself and grow rapidly.
And to keep the jug from blowing away after it's water is exhausted, simply tie a piece of string through the jog's handle and to a bamboo stake driven into the ground near the plant; never tie the jug to the plant.
Besides now having a wonderfully easy drip system at your disposal, you've helped to recycle plastic from the landfills and dumps, since these jugs last for a year or two if not exposed to direct sunlight. Remember to keep the cap to each jug, so that when you fill it and take it to a new plant for irrigation, you can turn it upside down with the cap in place (so it doesn't leak the liquid!) until you sit it next to the plant or shrub to be watered and fertilized.
Special Heirloom-Quality Gardening Tools
Hardly a day goes by without someone purchasing one of our special stainless steel English, Swiss or American Gardening Tools. They're most certainly not the average breakable junk that you'd find at the mass merchandisers or hardware stores locally. These manufacturers and their outlet stores count on you breaking their tools so that they can sell you more of the same type; that's how they stay in business. Think about it.
These Ultra-Quality tools that we carry are made of the finest materials, assembled in a way as to prohibit breakage, and will last beyond your and my lifetimes.
Guaranteed.
It's nice to have to purchase a tool only once, instead of every spring or summer, because the last one bent or broke. And to be able to pass it down to your children as a family heirloom - as in the case of the stainless tools - is a special reason unto itself.
Why not invest in quality? Exactly why we carry only those brands such as Latshaw's Estate and Chelsea Collections, Sheffield Pride, Felco, Yankee Craftsman and Garden Tools of Maine. Ask to see this line-up when you visit. After all, buying something once that lasts a lifetime is a sign of Yankee wisdom and practicality, not self- indulgence.
Newly-Re-Designed Rare & Unusual Plant Nursery
Among the many changes you'll notice this coming Spring will be a newly-re-designed and constructed Rare & Unusual Collector's Plant Nursery, adjacent to Production Greenhouse #4. It features very special plant material quite apart from the common specimens that reside in the rest of our Nursery Display Area.
The area is built-up with Versa-Lok Blocks, which are concrete retaining wall blocks that lock together as a nice alternative to dry-stacked stone or brick walls. We sell them in several sizes, configurations and colors, for various commercial and residential applications.
But the plants will be the main attraction, and rather than try to describe them in a few words, you'll just have to see it all for yourself in the Spring. Plan to visit and view some of these most rare, unusual and hard-to-find offerings.
Other Nurseries have tried to copy this special area or ours for Connoisseurs & Collectors, but I've visited their and seen their meager offerings; what a shame!
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Composting - The Easy Way
Spring - Summer - Fall Hours:
Water Gardening: Our Easy Way
Page2:Landscape It Yourself, With Our Help
New Format For Saturday Landscape Design Workshops
Page3:Mulches: Part 1 - The Myths.
Mulch Ain't Just Mulch
Our Guarantee vs All Others
Page4:Garden Center Is Available For Meetings & Tours
Page5:Alpine Trough Gardens - The New Way To Garden: Replacing Water Gardening Quickly
Page6:New Perennials, Annuals & Nursery Stock for 1995
Seed Starting Materials
Featuring Upscale Shepard's Seeds
Roses - Summer Care and Enjoyment
Getting It All Ready For Spring. Again.
Windowsill Container Herb Gardens
Become Spring & Summer Outdoor Herb Gardens.
Wildflower Gardens & Meadows Begin This Spring or Fall!
Coming Next Issue
1995 Pumpkin Decorating Contest
Page9:1995 Workshops & Seminars Schedule
Page10:Water & Fertilize It When You Plant It - Milk Jug Irrigation
Special Heirloom-Quality Gardening Tools
Newly-Re-Designed Rare & Unusual Plant Nursery