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!

Two openings this week!

The garden center will be open tomorrow (May 10) AND Saturday (May 12), just in time for Mother's Day!! Come check our wonderful selection of student propagated tomatoes, basil (only ready for a very protected, warm spot if going outside), other edibles, and lots more. We're open 11am til 3pm both days!

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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!

Saturday Plant Sale!

We're open again today from 11am - 3pm. And the tomatoes will be making their debut, with more than 30 varieties to choose from! From Early Cherries to Oregon Spring and Gold Nugget, you can have tomatoes in variety of colors!

We also have a great variety of succulents and ground covers available...

SALE 30% Off All Plants!

The Garden Center will only be open two more days this Spring Quarter -- this Thursday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. We have lots of plants that need good homes and you get to take another 30% off our already low prices!


We will have some limited openings during summer. We will be open on Sunday, July 18th, in conjunction with the West Seattle Garden Tour. We will announce additional dates here on our blog as information is available.

2010 Summer of Love - Garden like it's 1967!

In the garden, every summer is a summer of love. Just take a look at how many plants we have here at the Garden Center that have some "Love Connection."

There are plants said to have aphrodisiac properties or that boost fertility, including:
• Tomatoes, which the French call "pomme d'amour" or love apples
• Basil - boosts fertility and general sense of well being
• Catnip (Nepeta sp.) - well the cats do love it
• Passionflower (Passiflora sp.) - the fruit is sinfully good
• Savory (Saturja sp.)
• Southernwood (Artemesia abrotanum)

And there are plants that have names related to love:
• Loveage (Lavisticum officianale)
• Love in a Mist (Nigella)
• Love Lies Bleeding (Amaranth)
• Bleeding Heart (Dicentra sp.)
• Love in a Puff Vine (Cardiospermum halicacbum)
• Bachelor's Buttons (Centaurea cyanus)

We have a table set up in the lath house with plants that fit the "love" theme. Look for the red hearts on the description signs. Take a few of these home and create your own Summer of Love.

This week, we have special pricing on peppers and tomatoes. Large containers are now $2.69, were $4.69. Small containers are now only 99 cents! At these prices, you can afford to try several varieties.  Please remember to bring boxes or bags to carry your plants home in. 

Also, the West Seattle Tool Library will be open here on Saturday, June 12, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Peppers - We Have a Global Collection for You!

We have the first round of peppers out. This season we have grown many different kinds of peppers. We also have unusual varieties again, ranging from sweet to hot, HOT, HOT! A friend of Puget Ridge has been donating pepper seeds that he has collected all over the world, so we truly have a "global" collection for you. Thank you, Don!

Some of our favorite varieties are: 'Hungarian Black,' 'Bishop's Cap,' ' Sweet Banana,' 'Tequilla Sunrise,' and 'Healthy.'
5 1/2" containers are $4.69 each.
Peppers, like tomatoes, love the heat. Place in full sun with reflected heat off concrete, fences or the side of your house. Peppers enjoy well drained soil and plenty of water. You can plant them deep down, as they make more roots along their stems. Peppers are loved by aphids, so keep an eye out for those little green bugs. They are easily washed off with peppermint soap and water.

Tomato varieties available this week:
Besides all the varieties listed in previous posts, this week we brought out 'Black Krim,' 'Carbon,' 'Mirabelle,' and 'Yellow Pear.'

Another note...
A customer was in on Saturday and asked if we use any chemicals when growing our plants. We have not needed to use anything except the peppermint soap and water solution, as mentioned above, to wash off aphids. We don't use herbicides. Our potting mix does contain some fertilizer, but other than that, we give our plants good soil, as much sunshine as we get, water and lots of love and attention. They are thriving! She reminded me that our customers would want to know this information.

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.

It's Time for Tomatoes!

We had good intentions this year. We were going to start FEWER varieties of tomatoes. Well, you know what they say about good intentions... A few of the 35+ varieties are available for you this week. Here you can see part of the collection in our greenhouse.

• Tomatoes can be planted out when night time temperatures are in the high 40s and we are there most of the time now. However, the daytime temperatures are still cool for these heat lovers. So you can plant them outside, but they will sit until it starts to warm up into the high 60s during the day.
• When planting, drop tomatoes down deep into the soil. Unlike most plants, the fine hairs on the stems will turn into new roots. (They truly are weeds.)
• Our tomatoes already have flowers set and are in 5-1/2" square containers. They are $4.69 each.
• We have selected varieties that do well in our cool climate.

Varieties available this week: 'Sungold,' 'Silver Fir Tree,' 'Siberian,' 'Japanese Black Trifele,' 'San Marzano,' 'Shady Lady,' 'Oregon Spring,' 'Legend,' 'Fox,' and 'Stupice.' If there is a particular variety you are looking for, ask us, we might have it.

Sale Plants of the Week
All indoor plants are 30% off. We have a smart collection of easy care plants for indoors. This includes many succulents that require only a sunny window and infrequent watering.