Onion Sets: Yellow, Red and White onions – $1.60 / pound, Sweet onions – $4.00 / pound. Garlic – $4.60 / pound Elephant Garlic – $9.70 / pound Shallots – $5.60 / pound All available now for fall planting. Cooler weather ahead. Shorter days, cool mornings. FALL PLANTING SEASON IS HERE. Winter vegetables are now in as well.
August is a good time to start planning for the fall planting and if it is not too warm you can get a jump on the fall planting season. Remember that fall is the best time for planting trees and shrubs. Especially trees. I know the ground is hard after the summer but if you start a hole and soak it and then dig a little more and soak it, pretty soon the hole you need for the tree or shrub is done and it is a fairly painless way to dig a hole. Continue to water deeply for the balance of the summer and into fall and be sure that if mulch you added at the beginning of the summer is getting thin, add more to keep the moisture you are applying in the ground. Bare Root Fruit Tree List I now have the Bare Root Fruit Tree list for bare root 2017 completed and available. The list is of all that will be in January of 2017. Click on the link following and you can look at it and hopefully print it if you like. Plan out your orchard. If you want to reserve trees for the bare …
July started off nice and cool after a petty warm June. There have been a few temperature spikes but overall it’s pretty nice. Get out and do planting and landscaping early and it’s nice and cool. Many of our customers find they have the most time in the summer to do their planting. And planting in the summer is fine. Plant early in the day or in the evening if possible so it is easier on you. Plants will handle the transplant just fine but do make sure you give additional water for the first week or so after planting to make sure it is kept well hydrated. Water the new planting well and then water in with Superthrive mixed in water. This will eliminate any transplant shock that may occur. Then keep the plant moist but not soggy while it is getting it’s root system established. If you are using a timed drip system that runs for very short periods, you will need to supplement with a hose periodically. A slow trickle for an hour or two works well about once or twice a week along with the drip system. Also mulch well around your trees and shrubs to …
June started off pretty warm but is now seasonally where the temperatures normally are for this time of year. And looking at the long range forecast on my weather app, it looks like it will be nice for the next couple of weeks at least. WATERING After the hot spell I thought I would write about the best watering practices for trees. When watering trees, be sure to give them a deep soak once or twice a week depending on temperatures. Do not give short daily waterings. Give good deep soaks. A good rule to use is to give 10 gallons of water per week for every inch of trunk diameter and be sure to soak to a depth of at least 12 inches. On larger trees you’ll want to soak to a depth of 2 to 3 feet. Use slow drip and let it run long enough to soak deep. Add 3″ of mulch around your trees and shrubs to hold the moisture in the ground not allow it to evaporate. Mulching garden beds and vegetable gardens should also be done. Deep soaking and mulching encourages a deep healthy root system so that trees and shrubs and new plantings …
May 2016 marks 31 years in business for us. My parents, Richard and Cecilia Rice started the business in 1985. Richard Rice (Dad) passed away in 2005. Mrs. Rice (Mom) is still here almost every day. She is now moving out of the customer service capacity at the nursery. She has had some health issues this past fall which have caused some eyesight issues for her so she will no longer be writing up customer orders. She will be in a capacity of doing some of the maintenance chores around here she enjoys and also enjoys talking to folks. But myself and those who work here will be the ones waiting on customers. I hope all our customers understand and can appreciate mom’s new capacity here at the nursery that she and dad started. May is turning out to be another beautiful spring month. Not hot except for a couple of warm days and a little rain and long range forecats indicate a little more to come. It’s a great time to do some gardening and planting. Check your watering systems and make sure all drippers and sprinklers are working. Don’t want to find out a dripper is not working …
Fruit Trees that were potted in January are now ready for sale. We have an assortment of apples, apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums rooted and ready for sale. All are in 5 gallon size containers. We are selling on a first come first serve basis only. Sorry no reservations. Come in early for best selection. We have another batch of fruit trees that were potted at the end of bare root season that should be ready in a couple of weeks. I will send out an email letting everyone know when they are ready. I will also post it on the Facebook page.
Many things are needing to be done in the landscape during April. Rhododendrons should have the flower trusses that are spent snapped off at the base as soon as they fade. Don’t wait until all the flowers have finished blooming to remove them because the plant will expend energy making seeds that would be better used to add new foliage when it has completed the bloom cycle. Fertilize them right after flowering with a rhododendron azalea camellia fertilizer now and then again in 30 days and a final time 30 days after that. The same treatment applies to azaleas when they are done blooming. All those daffodils that were so beautiful earlier are no longer beautiful. Don’t cut off the leaves while they are still green. While the leaves are green, fertilize them with a high phosphorous fertilizer or one labeled “bulb foodâ€. They bloomed early this year but here at the nursery the leaves are still green and the fertilizing can still be done. Hopefully it is the same with yours. The old leaves can be pulled up when they have turned yellow or brown. Keep on top of the aphid problems and the fungus problems which might be …
March Gardening Tips Fertilizing It’s time to start fertilizing. Almost everything should be fertilized soon. As soon as deciduous plants have their full set of leaves fertilizing should be done I’ve actually done it in timing with the rain and had the rain water it in for me. If the rains time themselves right, it makes it easy. Hopefully we get more rains in the next several weeks to help with that. For most plants you should use a balanced fertilizer or an all purpose fertilizer. The three numbers will be the same such as 16-16-16 or 5-5-5 for organics. When fertilizing trees and shrubs apply the fertilizer at the drip line and work it into the soil. Make sure the plant is watered well before applying the fertilizer and water the fertilizer in after application. We carry 16-16-16 in 20 pound bags priced @ $19.99. We have organic balanced fertilizer from DR. Earth in 12 pound and 50 pound bags as well as 4 pound boxes. We also carry a full line of organic fertilizer for all other fertilizing needs. Vegetable Gardens Prepare the soil with good ammendments. Also incorporate into the soil a vegetable fertilizer and bone meal …
Dwarf Citrus Trees $32.95 each Cara Cara Navel Orange Washington Navel Orange Trovita Orange Improved Meyer Lemon Buddhas Hand Semi Dwarf Citrus Tree $34.50 each Tarocco Blood Orange Oro Blanco Grapefruit Star Ruby Grapefruit Eureka Lemon Meyer Lemon Vaelncia Orange Washington Navel Orange Owari Satsuma Mandarine Clementine Mandarin Dancy Tangerine Bearrs Lime Mexican Lime Nagami Kumquat Avocados $33.95 each Bacon Avocado Mexicola Avocado Zutano Avocado
Bare Root Season Continues Through February 28th. Fruit Tree Pruning Classes February 6th & 7th at 10 am both days Potato Planting Class February 6th at Noon. FREE COFFEE AND HOT CHOCOLATE DURING BARE ROOT SEASON FRUIT TREES Standard Fruit Trees $19.00 with a few exceptions. Semi Dwarf Fruit Trees $21.00 with a few exceptions. The selection is still good. At the end of the month we pot up what is left. Once they are potted they will not be available until late spring or fall and the price is higher. ROSES Bush and climber roses $15.95. Bare Root. In container $19.95 24″ Patio Tree Roses $27.50 36″ Tree Roses $38.00 We also have bare root lilacs and shade trees and berries available as well. Remember, bare root season ends February 28th. After that bare root trees are no longer available. We begin potting them at that time. CITRUS TREES We will be getting citrus trees the first or second week of March. Weather depending. We will not bring them in if we are still having hard freezes. Seed Potatoes are now in. Plant them now and harvest potatoes later in the spring. We eill be having a potato planting …
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