Celebrate Memorial Day at the Garden Center!

Check out the great selection of edibles! Tomatoes, lettuces, horseradish, berries, nasturtiums, and lots more!

We're open two days this week for your shopping pleasure! Thursday (5/24) and Saturday (5/26) from 11am - 3 pm both days!

Open Saturday April 14th 11 am to 3 pm

Edibles are ready!

• lettuce, tomatoes in 4" pots, blueberries, raspberries, fig
  trees and more
• Brugmansia in # 2 pots $16.69
• Fremontodendron californicum
• heathers in bloom
• perennials - flowering, medicinal, edibles
• ground covers, shrubs and more!

Consider Edible Perennials

In our search for ways to make life easier, gardeners should consider planting edibles that return year after year. Most of the edibles we choose to grow are annuals. They are planted in the late spring, grow and produce for us through fall, and then their life cycle ends. Edible perennials and shrubs are plants that endure year after year - some have woody stems that remain through the winter, others die back and are renewed in spring by the warmth and the rain.

Examples of edible perennials and shrubs are: Rhubarb, Asparagus, Artichokes, all of the berries (Raspberries, Strawberries, Blueberries, etc.) and most of the herbs we use to spice up our foods. There's nothing like a fresh picked tomato from the vine outside your door, but planting a blueberry or rhubarb provides years of service, adds interest to any garden bed, and only needs to be planted once.

Here are a few of the perennial edibles we are offering you:
Asparagus 'Purple Passion' and 'Jersey'
Rhubarb
Thornless Raspberry, Thornless Boysenberry, Marionberry
5 varieties of Blueberries
Herbs including: Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, and Chives, just to name a few.


Come see us. We are open on Thursday and Saturday this week. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

More Tomatoes!

We're bringing more varieties of tomatoes out of the greenhouse this week. In addition to the list from last week, here's what you will find.

• Black Cherry
• Black Krim
• Brandywine
• Cream Sausage
• Gold Nugget
• Red Alert
• Red Zebra
• San Marzano
• Sweetie

Remember that we have lots of vegetable starts in addition to tomatoes. We have greens, cucumbers, garlic and several kinds of peppers will soon be ready to come out of the greenhouse. We also have herbs and a good selection of berries.

Grow Your Own Blueberries!

Blueberries are one of the most rewarding shrubs you can add to your garden. They are beautiful landscape plants with an attractive form, eventually getting 4-5 feet tall and 3-5 feet wide, depending on variety. They produce abundant clusters of urn-shaped, white flowers in spring. A few varieties are evergreen, but most are deciduous. Their brilliant fall color will light up your landscape.

On top of all that beauty you get -- berries! It is such a treat to pick fresh blueberries from the garden in the morning for breakfast. For best results, plant more than one variety to insure good pollination. It takes a year or two for plants to get established enough to produce big crops, but your patience will be well rewarded.

Blueberries are a treat for wildlife, too. Their flowers provide nectar for native bees, butterflies and other pollinators. They are a larval food source for several butterflies. And they provide good nesting sites, cover and fruit for birds.

Here are the varieties we have in the Garden Center now:

• 'Duke' - one of the early bloomers, fruit ripens in late June. Deep blue, mild-flavored berries. Heavy producer.
• 'Bluecrop' - midseason, large berries. Excellent flavor and an attractive plant. 
• 'Blueray' - midseason, vigorous and tall. Crisp fruit. Can tolerate more sun than 'Bluecrop.'
• 'Bluejay' - vigorous grower with heavy fruit set.

We will have three more varieties available for you in May.

Come see us! We are open this week on Thursday, from 11 - 3.

What's Fresh for April...

CEDAR PLANTER BOXES ARE BACK!

Crafted right here at South by our students.

Perfect for creating edible garden beds.

24" x 24" x 12"
Custom sizes available to order.
(206-764-5323)

EDIBLES, BERRIES, HERBS and GREENS
We have everything you need to get your garden off to a good start:

• 7 different varieties of Blueberries
• 5 different varieties of Raspberries
• Thornless Boysenberries 
• Lingonberries
• Seascape Strawberries
• Sage, Parsley, Lavender, Thyme, Chives, and much more!

As spring nights warm up, greens take off! We have Arugula, Mustard Greens, Chard, Spinach, Lettuce, Kale, Endive, Escarole, Mesculin, and Pac Choi. Fresh greens have a distinctive flavor and add such a tasty touch to your salads or soups,
picked right from outside your door!

ORNAMENTALS
Viburnum x burkwoodii is blooming and very fragrant
Hebe and grasses look great and provide structure in your container gardens!

PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVES
Kinnickinnick / Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Serviceberry / Amelanchier
Lovely native ferns