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Tag: Seedlings

  • Through May 1 – Pre-order Organic Seedlings from Wright-Locke Farm

    Each year Wright-Locke Farm sells organic seedlings during the spring season to help you start your gardens off on the right foot. We are selling seedlings until May 1st on a PRE-SALE basis using our Farm to Go™ online order system. Login to your account (or make one if you don’t have one yet!), select “Seedling Presales” as your shopping period and start adding to your cart:

    • Greens
    • Flowers & Herbs
    • Cherry tomatoes
    • Heirloom & Slicing Tomatoes
    • Cucumbers
    • Beans
    • Summer Squash
    • Eggplant
    • Melons & MORE!

    Once you confirm your order, we’ll send you followup information about scheduling a pickup time in May for your seedlings. Happy Growing!
    Questions about the seedlings? Email farmer@wlfarm.orgQuestions about your account/ordering seedlings? Email farmstand@wlfarm.org

  • Saturday, April 18, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Tips and Techniques for Healthy Seedling Starts – ONLINE

    Healthy plants and gardens begin with healthy seedlings. Come online on April 18 from 10 – 1 and learn some basic yet critical propagation techniques for successful seedling starts. We begin with a brief overview of propagation terminology and science and continue in the greenhouse with hands-on demonstrations and experience. Plan to get your virtual hands dirty! Alexis Doshas will instruct this Native Plant Trust workshop, and the cost is $45 for NPT members, $54 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/tips-and-techniques-healthy-seedling-starts/

  • Wednesday, May 2, 7:00 pm – Sexual Secrets: Tales of Species, Seedlings, and Sports

    The world of plant propagation is cloaked in mystery. What really is a cultivar, a hybrid, or a straight species plant? How are nursery crops typically grown and new plants introduced to the market? Come to the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, on Wednesday, May 2 at 7 pm to hear an expert nurseryman’s point of view, how plants are selected and bred for new characteristics, and what it really takes to successfully propagate both native and non-native trees, shrubs, and plants for the consumer market. Author Wayne Mezitt is Chairman of Weston Nurseries, and has over 50 years experience in his family’s business.  Free admission.

  • Tuesday, April 19, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Spring Seeds and Seedlings

    Spend an afternoon from 2 – 4 on Tuesday, April 19 side-by-side with Historic New England’s Casey Farm’s experienced and knowledgeable vegetable farmers to learn the tricks of the trade while helping the greenhouse team prepare for the popular Mother’s Day plant sale. As you plant, you’ll discuss the proper ways to start seedlings and get answers to your garden questions. Space is limited to 15. Free, but open only to Historic New England members. Casey Farm is located at 2325 Boston Neck Road, Saunderstown, Rhode Island. Registration is required. Please call 401-295-1030 for more information.

  • Saturday, October 17, 10:00 am – Eden’s Gems: A Walk in the Village Orchard

    Garden Thyme programs are held on the third Saturday of each month and are FREE for members of Old Sturbridge Village. Led by Village horticultural and agricultural staff, these programs and workshops are held at various sites and deal with a variety of plant-related themes and topics. Participants gather at the Visitor Center at 10 a.m. each month and are led to the appropriate site or setting.  On October 17, enjoy Eden’s Gems: A Walk in the Village Orchard, with Christie Higginbottom. Did you ever wonder why 1800s cooks and cider makers had over 800 apple varieties to choose from and we only have a dozen or so? Meet the Village’s historic fruits — the Mothers, the Spitzenburgs, the Russets, the Baldwins and the Sheepsnose apples. Learn about seedlings, scions and rootstocks. Find out how the art and skill of propagating these trees keeps our apple heritage alive.  For more information, and directions, log on to www.osv.org.

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  • Saturday, September 12 – “Native Plants” at The Mall at Chestnut Hill

    The final installment of The Mall at Chestnut Hill’s 2009 Organic Garden Series will take place Saturday, September 12 with “Native Plants.”  Hear a presentation on winterizing gardens, and best of all, there will be a tomato tasting and a lecture on how to preserve food (canning, freezing, fermenting) with results from June’s seedlings.  Also, there will be an opportunity to purchase from a vegetable and fruit stand.  For more information, log on to www.simon.com and click @Your Mall Now!, or call 617-965-3037.

  • Saturday, September 5, 10:00 a.m. – Up To Our Ears! A Hands On Corn Harvest

    Help us harvest! Plimoth Plantation’s colonial interpretation staff has planted a corn crop in mud and rotten fish, scared crows and woodchucks away from the seedlings, hilled the stalks in summer heat and driving rain, battled earworms, squirrels and turkeys, then pulled and hoed more weeds than could ever be counted… Now, the corn is finally ready to harvest!  Roll up your sleeves and please join the English colonists in the English Village to assist bringing in the 2009 crop of corn!  This fully-immersive, hands-on program and is suitable for anyone aged 5 and up. Harvest the crops and take home a bushel of agricultural knowledge!  For more information, log on to www.plimoth.org.

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