Is Tomato Thursday a Thing?
It is when it’s high tunnel tomato plug season! May greetings! It really isn’t gardening season until the tomatoes get transplanted. Usually, that’s around Mother’s Day based on our USDA hardiness zone here in the Philadelphia area. Tomatoes are not cold tolerant. That said, if you have a greenhouse or high tunnel you get get…
Cool Crops for the Cool Spring Weather
Spring greetings on this last day of March 2023! Last blog, we profiled some of the plug orders that we were doing for high tunnels and other growers of greenhouse greens and lettuce. This blog, we’re sticking with the greens, but in a different way… profiling two plug orders for early season transplants. The first…
Winter Greens = Greenhouse Wonderland
January greetings! It has been mild here in the Philadelphia region the past two weeks. We have had a few chilly days, but nothing especially cold. Of course working inside a greenhouse as opposed to outside is a benefit this time of year. On a sunny afternoon, it’s a spring day! Still, it is too…
Prepping for the 2023 Plug Season
Holiday greetings and warmest winter wishes! Before we close out 2022 and change our desk calendars to 2023 we wanted to provide some important updates for the spring plug season. We are NOT keeping “greenhouse hours” from now through January 8, 2023 to clean and disinfect the houses ahead of spring seed sowing and plug…
Planning for 2023
Autumn greetings! We would like to thank everyone for a busy fall season of mum and pumpkin sales. September and October 2022 were certainly two months for the record books and we could not have done this without everyone’s support and business. Before the hustle and bustle of poinsettia season, we are taking a bit…
Spring Plugs for Summer Blooms
June greetings from the farm and greenhouse! Spring plug and plant production is done and we are now focusing on our summer plants and plans, including seeding more plugs for the fall (lettuce, cole crops, and pansies), and overwintering. As we “crunch” the numbers from the past year the one customer segment of ours that…
Melon Transplants are Marvelous!
We love growing (and eating!) melons. Perhaps that explains the biased nature of this blog’s title. But, after the recent days in the mid-90s and today being the first day of June 2022 there’s nothing more appropriate than discussing a recent melon plug job we did. And… it’s #watermelonwednesday too! Back in March, one of…
How About Those Heirlooms?
In late February 2022, we received a phone call from a farmer in northern New Jersey. They were interested in having someone seed/germinate/grow to transplant size some heirloom and specialty tomato varieties. Like A LOT of variety. 35 varieties to be specific! Curious what they were? Here’s the list! Pink GirlLarge Barre BoarStriped GermanAunt Ruby’s…
Super Sized Solanaceae Plug Order
As the warm weather settles in our area, everyone’s thoughts turn to summer activities such as barbeques, trips to the beach, and vacations. Frequently, these events center around food and local grown produce which is in abundance during the summer month, can be the star of the show. If you’ve been following us on Instagram…
Lettuce is Lovely… Especially in Succession Plantings!
If there is one advantage of cooler temperatures in the spring season, it is that growers have more time to grow cool season vegetable crops – perhaps even more than one planting! Back in late February, a local farmer contacted us about doing three succession crops of swiss chard and lettuce for them. The lettuce…
Loading…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Follow My Blog
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.
Seeds 2 Plugs 