Jul 16, 2021
As the Blueberry Bash advances towards the July 24th day (see details below), much preparation is in the works already. Fortunately, we were able to fill most of our usual entertainment venues with the usual fares even at a late date. The Fall Festival will follow in…
Jul 9, 2021
With the heat of summer, everything including weeds has made exponential growth. In a recent trip to Toledo, Ohio, winter wheat field corn and soybeans are growing nicely with adequate rainfall and the warmth of summer. On a more recent trip some of the later fields…
Jul 2, 2021
by Tom Dayton For as long as the American experiment has been going on, the American Bald Eagle has been revered as a symbol of strength and ideals of the United States with this bird of prey portrayed on the Great Seal with spread wings, a clutch of arrows in one set…
Jun 25, 2021
Now that we are past the summer solstice, July is spastically our hottest month. While the west is experiencing record drought, the eastern half of the country seems to be adequately moist. In the west one of the problems is its increase of population over the past 20…
Jun 18, 2021
To say the least, the perennial sale has been quite popular except for the fact that some of the most popular items are selling out quickly as a buy one, get one free offer is hard to resist. The problem lies therein that we are not buying items elsewhere to replenish…
Jun 11, 2021
While the hot weather has continued, adequate rainfall so far has been the norm with about one inch of rain per week which is causing gardens and lawns to grow in an early spring like manner. The new Russian bees at the Seiberling farm are busy pollinating a variety…
Jun 4, 2021
Well another load of arborvitae and Green Giant Western red cedars arrived on Tuesday and they are already selling so fast to necessitate another order to come in about 3 weeks. Unfortunately, the plants come from Oregon with hot and dry weather so that shipping will…
May 27, 2021
The botanical garden finally got a weed spraying as the catawbiense varieties of rhododendron as in their full glory such as catawbeinse ‘Alba’ and ‘Boursault’, ‘Nova Zembla’, ‘Ice Cube’ and ‘Boule de Neige’ just as the evergreen azaleas fade. Following will be the…
May 21, 2021
As it heats up in late spring, it’s necessary to spray a white shade compound on our greenhouse roof in order to cool down the internal temperature and keep our shade plants from burning from the hot sun. It’s a scary job to walk along these tall roofs to spray the…
May 15, 2021
Last Sunday (Mother’s Day) was quite a bust as the rain continued all day with a brief period of snow. Then, Thursday morning brought a severe frost in which our water pump for irrigation had to work overtime to protect the new growth and flowers on our stock. But…