I woke up this morning with the garden on my mind. I have been watching our back yard open up this season and feel its energy, ready to burst a little more with the dawn of each new day. As we enter the third year of our meadow-style home garden, I have noticed a huge increase in the birds that come to our feeders and generally treat the back yard as their banquet. A flock of Carolina wrens came through last week and hopped through the garden foraging for whatever goodies it is they like, and every morning our resident lady Cardinal swoops in and sits on the branch of the mulberry tree right outside the window, showing off, all shy and coy. It is such a show.
As the weather warms up, many of you are thinking about tomatoes. The tomato webinar I hosted last week was sold out with a huge request for more, so I am going to do it a second time this Thursday at 5:30. Here is the correct link to sign up if you are interested. And today at noon, I will do a Facebook Live video walking through our tomato, eggplant and pepper greenhouse. You can join me for a look behind the scenes and hear about all the different varieties we are growing. And you can find them here too.
French marigolds have crested, double flowers in rich oranges, reds, yellows, and bronze. A summer staple in the garden.
Here are some other plants newly up on the website:
Marigolds, Sweet Corn 6-packs, Tasty Jade cucumbers, and Cherokee Purple tomatoes are some of our summer favorites.
Flower Power Bundles - annual flower plants to make a cutting garden or mix into flower beds. We have included 9 of our favorite varieties in this bundle, and there are 2 plants or more in each pot.
Basil Bundles - a collection of Sweet Genovese Basil, along with our specialty basils like pistou, purple, thai and lemon for the herb lover and pesto maker.
Our potting soil is back in stock for filling your planters and window boxes, along with watering wands and many other helpful tools that we were sold out of earlier in the week. It is been a challenge to keep things in stock with all of the eager gardeners out there these days!
Thanks so much for all of your support this season. It has been just incredible, and our Red Wagon team has done the best job to adjust and shift. I feel very proud of all of us working together to make gardening work for our community. You generous contributions to our Grow it Forward program (you have raised over $600 so far) are being used to fill gardens at housing sites in Chittenden County and Addison County in partnership with VT Community Garden Network and Housing Vermont. We are also working with Champlain Housing Trust and Food Not Bombs to bring big, potted cherry tomatoes to people who don’t have access to gardens. All of this makes us smile, and feels incredibly rewarding. Thank you.
Enjoy the garden,
Julie and the crew