Our greenhouses are loaded with pots and flats of colorful flowers, as well as hanging baskets, vegetables and herbs. The outdoor lot has blooming trees and shade trees, and flowering shrubs and perennials. Come in now for a treat for your eyes and your soul! May we suggest a colorful pot of gerbera daisies? Lots of color with a small outlay of time and money.
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Loaded with Color
We’re Ready for the Spring Season
We’re ready for the spring season. Are you? Perennials, trees, shrubs, tropical plants and early season vegetables are in stock now, as well as seeds, onion sets and plants, seed potatoes, and all the soils you need to get them all started. Come and see us!
It’s Almost Grave Blanket Time
Custom Decorated Blanket with Silks and Velvet Ribbons
The weather doesn’t agree, but it’s almost time to order your grave blankets, pillows, wreaths and sprays. Our price lists get mailed out next week to all of our customers who have ordered from us in the past few years.
We can’t begin to place them until mid-November (because of cemetery rules) but we’ve actually begun production– making the wood and straw bases that we make them on. I think we’re the only source still making them this way.
The benefit of our base is that it gathers rain (and melting snow) to help keep the greens fresher longer. (Have you ever tried to get Styrofoam to take up water? It’s not gonna happen.) It also adds weight that helps to keep the blankets and pillows from flipping and blowing off in windy areas. (If we place them, we also fasten them down with a sturdy wire.)
If you haven’t ordered from us before, but would like a price list/order sheet, please call 740-546-4467 or toll free 800-844-5944, or email us at bob@ferdas.com and we’ll get one right out to you.
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Spring 2012 Production Has Begun!
Bob fired up the first of the greenhouses over the weekend, and we’re transplanting today. The pace is still slow, but it’ll pick up soon. Pretty soon we’ll have little growing plants coming out our ears! (Not literally, of course, but you get the idea…)
The seed racks are filled and waiting, and product has started to arrive. Hang on, the ride has begun!
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Tagged Ferda's Garden Center, greenhouse, greenhouses, spring
Cute Statuary Has Begun to Arrive!
We got i
n a shipment of cute statuary today. We haven’t unpacked it yet, since it is so cold out in the greenhouses, but we’re so excited for you to see it all. It’ll all be on display when we reopen in March. Here is a piece, just couldn’t wait to start showing it to you!
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Tagged bunny, Ferda's Garden Center, gift shop, greenhouse, greenhouses, statuary, statues
Hot Pepper “Fresno Chile”
Fresno Chile image courtesy of Ivy Garth Seeds
Do you like jalapenos? Then you’ll like Fresno Chiles, too. They are just about as hot (maybe a bit hotter) and have the thick waxy feel of a jalapeno. You could use them interchangeably in recipes. They are good fresh, added to salsas, roasted (and stuffed as an appetizer if you like that heat), or canned.
They begin green and ripen to red, at which point they are a little sweeter. The plants are vigorous and bear well.
New Tomato for 2012
We have some great new vegetable varieties in the pipeline for you this year. Let’s talk about a few, just to whet your appetite for spring.
I don’t know about you, but the reason I like to eat fruits and vegetables I’ve grown myself is that I know they are fresher and healthier than those I can buy in the grocery store that have been picked and shipped across country, or even across countries.
photo courtesy of Ivy Garth Seeds
With that in mind, we are growing a tomato variety this year called Caro Rich. The name derives from the fact that it is higher in beta-carotene (up to 10 times as much as in other tomatoes!) Beta-carotene is an antioxidant that gives orange and yellow fruits and vegetables their color and is converted by the body into a safe form of vitamin A. (This is believed to promote eye health and help with vision—there’s a reason your mother told you to eat your carrots.)
It is an 8-10 oz beefsteak-style tomato in a deep orange color. (That’s about the size of your average Better Boy– a nice size for a slice on a burger.) They are low acid and sweet. They are large plants, probably a better choice for in-ground growing, rather than in a pot. Oh, and did I mention, they’re more healthy?
Global Warming?
Finally a result of “global warming” that we can like. This month has been quite nice so far, and quite different than the January we expected. We like the fact that we’ve had very little snow and some really mild days.
We’ve finished the inventory and have begun to change the store over to its spring look, even though we aren’t open this month or next. Bob is working on tree and shrub orders, and Anita and Patty are planning the seeds we’ll sow down in February and March to have ready for you in April and May in our colorful greenhouses.
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Tagged Ferda's Garden Center, greenhouse, greenhouses, growing vegetables, spring
Happy New Year!
Well, we’re three days into the new year and I am already remembering to write 2012 on my checks. I think that says that I was ready for 2011 to say, “bye-bye.” We’re finished with our end-of-the-year inventory, and are painting parts of the walls in E
aster egg colors in anticipation of the spring to come.
Bob, Patty and Anita have been poring over catalogs to choose the neatest new plants to include in our mix this year. It will be interesting to see what they come up with!
We’re officially closed for the winter, but we’re in and out all winter doing what needs to be done, so if you need something (and you don’t mind shopping in a disrupted environment) stop in when you see signs of activity, or call ahead to make sure someone will be there to help you.
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Grave Blankets
It’s not too lat
e to order a grave blanket, pillow or spray. We can deliver it to the local cemeteries, or you can place it yourself if you like. We make the standard colors (red plastic flowers and a weatherproof bow) or we can make it more to your style with silks and velvets or a more colorful bow. We have some available for cash and carry this weekend– beat the nasty weather and buy now.
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