Get Set to Grow

Spring is getting underway. My greenhouse is overflowing and we're now adding more cold frames. With our crazy weather, going from hot to freezing, it's still to early to plant here. Ground and night temperatures won't be warm enough for a few weeks yet. I know its tempting to see all the pretty flowers available at your local greenhouses, but planting them in cold soil will only stunt them. My herbs and vegetables will be ready closer to the end of the month. I won't start selling at the Croswell market until then. The greenhouse will be open on weekends and by appointment after May 15th, weather permitting. I'm already taking orders for tomatoes.

Herb List for 2008

• Anise Hyssop
• Basils: Sweet, Cinnamon, Genovese, Holy, Large Leaf, Lemon, Rubin, Serata, Spicy Glob, Thai Magic
• Borage
• Burnet
• Catnip
• Chamomile, German & Roman
• Chervil
• Chives: Fine leaf & Garlic
• Calendula: Deja Vous
• Coriander/Cilantro
• Dill: Bouquet, Dukat, Fernleaf
• Fennel, Bronze
• Feverfew
• Horehound
• Hyssop
• Lavender: Hidcote, Lady, Munstead, Rosea
• Lemon Balm
• Lemon Verbena
• Marjorams: Sweet, Variegated, Zatar
  
• Marigold, Sweet Mexican/Spanish Tarragon
• Mint: Peppermint, Kentucky Colonel Spearmint, Orange, Mountain - will have Apple, Chocolate & others a little latter.
  
• Nasturiums
  
• Oreganos: Compact, Ditany of Crete, Golden, Greek, Hot N Spicy
  
• Parsley: Curly & Plain Italian
• Pennyroyal
• Rosemaries: Arp, Goriza, Huntington's Carpet, Salem, Spice Island, Prostrate, White
• Sages: Bergaten, Common, Golden, Pineapple, Purple, Tricolor, White
• Savory: Dwarf winter, Summer
• Scented Geraniums: Apricot, Atomic Snowflake, Citronella, Ginger, Lady Plymouth, Rober's Lemon Rose, Rose, Snowflake Rose & more.
  
• Sorrel
• Stevia
• Tarragon, French
• Thymes: English, Lemon Variegated, Miniature, Mother of, Oregano, Silver

Tomato List for 2008
Heirlooms:

• Brandywine
• Cherokee Purple
• Giant White
• Oregon Spring
• Red Oxheart
• Rutgers
• Striped German

Small/Cherry Tomatoes:

• Tumblin Tom
• Supersweet 100
• Sweet Olive (grape)
• Yellow Pear

Other Tomatoes:

• Beefsteak
• Better Boy
  
• Early Girl
• Giant Delicious
• Celebrity
• La Rossa

I'm also growing a large variety of peppers this year. So start getting your gardens ready. It's time to clean them out, amend the soil and plan on a great harvest this year. Peas should be in, mine are already up. Potatoes can go in now too. Spinach and lettuce are also great early crops. We're expanding our vegetable gardening area and will also have produce available in season.

We're looking forward to a great gardening year!