I wonder how many of you have gotten the first ripe tomato of the season. I know I’m just about ready because my Earth Box tomatoes are growing like crazy! The scientifically designed box allows for maximum growth and production of the fruits due to its great soil mass and water reservoir below it. Its amazing how much food can be grown in a limited amount of space!
If you have not done it yet, trim back your shrub roses and spireas now to get spent flower heads out of the way of new growth to allow for more flowering a little later.
This “trick” will not work with spring flowering plants as they are “programmed” to bloom only in spring. However, removing spent flowers or a light trim will mean more new growth and thus, more blooms for next spring.
Right now, we’re taking cuttings of Azaleas, Blueberries and many different shrubs that will start to be available two years from now. It’s a long process from a cutting to a saleable plant, but one that’s rewarding and enables us to control the production process. For example, years ago I attempted to purchase small Azaleas to sell but the plants always seemed to be pot bound.
Other items that I tried to purchase were not trimmed to my liking.
Also, many new plants that we introduce are patented and are not available in a larger size from local wholesale nurseries. In this case, we buy the plant liners from licensed growers and grow them on to a saleable size.
Another advantage to our propagation and growing operations is that we learn what production techniques make the plant “happy” and then we can pass along what we’ve learned to our customers.
Later on, I’ll let you know what new things were working on!
Tom
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