Grower’s Board
Updated : June 22, 2011
The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Bibs On!
This is how you enter the contest. You have to mail me a postcard, a letter, or like I said before, the flap from the top of the Cherrios box. Some people want me to register them via Email, but that’s not going to happen. I am not going to sit at my computer and… Click here to read more…
This is going to sound really crazy, but a few years back I was actually suffering from outhouse envy! Never heard of it? Probably not, but I declare it to be a real affliction. Perry, Ohio is a fairly rural community. Two traffic lights and not a single fast-food restaurant. That rural enough for you? … Click here to read more…
Purple Flowering Sandcherry is an easy plant to grow, always a great seller because of its purple leaves and delicate pink flowers. Always in demand. How is this plant sold? Let me count the ways. Unrooted hardwood cuttings. An unrooted cutting is pretty much nothing but a stick. But because of the popularity of Purple… Click here to read more…
People often get really confused when you start talking about grafted plants or budded plants. They also get confused when they have plants in their landscape that start acting crazy and they don’t know why. In this video, I explain how and why plants produce suckers and why those suckers should be removed. If they… Click here to read more…
What Does Heeling In Plants Mean? In the nursery business we often toss around terminology that some people get confused by. I often suggest to people that when they buy plants late in the fall to just “heel them in” until spring. And they often have no idea what I mean by that. Sometimes we… Click here to read more…