Spring is is always a welcome friend after the often cold, cloudy days of winter. It is time to meet the Spring with some rejuvinating preparations for your Herb garden. Let's look at some tips...
One of the best things you can do for your garden is to amend the soil with some compost. This will create a wonderful living sponge that will hold moisture and fertilizer to be taken up by the plant, as well as facilitate deeper root penetration. If you haven't already done this in late winter, it is time now.
As the weather gradually warms, bacteria start breaking down fertilizers to be taken up during Spring rains. Now is definitely time to make sure the new growth and new energy of your herbs is accompanied with proper nutrition. Organic fertilizers provide the steady nutrition herbs like.
Spring will bring us some showers but be prepared to get ready for the coming dry spells. Set up your drip or soaker hose irrigation now.
If you haven't already started cuttings from your perennials( remember fall tips ? ) you may have to wait until new growth gradually becomes abundant, but for annuals, sow, sow sow!
The Herb Garden is an herb nursery specializing in Culinary herbs suited for the climate of Florida. While we do carry limited medicinal herbs as well as ornamental herbs, our focus is on the culinary herbs. All our herbs are grown on premises using sustainable practices, natural fertilizers and environmentally safe, non-toxic sprays, when necessary.
Located in Melrose, The Herb Garden has been supplying herbs to 'north central' Florida since 1989. As a wholesale supplier, our herbs were found at all the major retail nurseries from Jacksonville, Ocala and Gainesville and now, with our focus on sustainable agriculture and the local food community, you can find our herbs at the Downtown Union Street Farmer's Market in Gainesville. In our support of local, sustainable agriculture The Herb Garden is a proud member of Gainesville Farm Fresh and the Farm Fresh Community Market.
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****The Herb Garden will be temporarily closed until mid-summer. New hours will be scheduled to work around my new position as Produce Manager for Citizen's Co-op in Gainesville, Florida. Sorry for any inconvenience, however you can still find my herbs at the Downtown Union Street Farmer's Market in Gainesville.****
It's not the cover of Rolling Stone, but The Herb Garden did make the cover of Florida Gardening magazine ( Feb - Mar 2011 ) with a blurb to lead you to an article about the nursery on page(s) 30-33.
This comes at a good time, as I am going to be re-opening The Herb GArden this Spring, perhaps by end of March, to the public and retail sales.
It is a nice, general article by Mary Glasser ( Thank you Mary ), however there is one major misquote in the article that I would like to correct here. She quotes me as saying " I used to be a Parrothead" as we were sitting under my tropical tiki hut looking at all the Buffett memorabilia...Mary, I will ALWAYS be a Parrothead and proud of it! Phins up! :)
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