Christmas Trees are Now Available at All Nursery Locations!

Easy Home Gardening Kit

Photos of a mature garden using our Easy Home Gardening Kit. For more info about square foot gardening, please see our previous post.

Recommendations for Summer

Summer Lawn - Now is the time to install your summer lawn—sod or Bermuda seed. For established lawns, begin watering 10-15 minutes in the morning ever day or every other day. It is important you do not water at night. Watering at night can cause fungus. Fertilize lawns once a month.

Trees and Shrubs – Watering of trees and shrubs should be a slow long deep soaking, making sure to let the ground dry between waterings. For installation of trees and shrubs, consult an A & P employee for recommendations. Some items can be touchy for summer. Fertilize palms once a month.

Bedding Plants – Switch over to summer bedding plants and flowers.

Garden – Start getting your garden ready for fall.

Square Foot Gardening

Soils – use 1/3 composted mulch, 1/3 peat moss and 1/3 vermiculite. Use any of these products available at A & P Nursery. Composted mulch should be a combo of 2-3 of these products – Harvest Supreme, Amend, Rose & Flower Planting Mix, A & P Moisture Mulch and Forest Magic Mulch.

A & P Nursery also has Grow Boxes available (pre-fabricated) 5 minute assembly, no screws needed. Constructed of 1”x8”x5’ lumber to create a 5’x5’ box with 14 ½” individual squares (16 squares total).
For all your gardening needs. Perfect sized for an herb garden, vegetable garden, flowers, etc. Perfect sized for starting an all organic garden. Raise your own vegetables in a proven productive system.

Harvest Supreme

* An excellent fortified natural soil amendment for all vegetable and flower gardens. Contains all-organic, long-lasting ingredients including chicken manure, bat guano and kelp meal. Helps break up clay soils and improves drainage.
* Formulated to provide abundant plant nutrients, improve physical soil structure and help balance pH when mixed with existing garden soil.

Available sizes:
2.0 CF

A & P Moisture Mulch

*Acts as a natural food resource for the microorganisms and serves to keep the microbial populations in soil alive and producing.

Available Sizes:
2.0 CF

Peat Moss

*Aerates plant roots by loosening heavy soil and adding body to sandy soil.
*Saves water by absorbing and holding moisture.
*Reduces leaching by releasing nutrients slowly to plants over time.

Available Sizes:
3.8 CF compressed bale
2.2 CF compressed bale

Vermiculite

*Good for retaining moisture.
*Helps with drainage.

Forest Magic Mulch

*A natural forest product.
*1/2” minus product comprised of wood
byproducts, green waste, and gypsum.

Available Sizes:
3.0 CF

Rose and Flower Planting Mix

* Specially formulated for all types of roses, promotes abundant blossoming and long life. Contains all-organic, long-lasting ingredients including alfalfa meal and worm castings.
* Natural ingredients increase moisture retention of soil and improves soil porosity and promotes drainage for healthy roots.


Available Sizes:
1.5 CF
Amend

*Ideal garden soil for flowers and vegetables.
* Rich in composted organic materials, including enriched Plant Food and Gypsum to soften clay soils.
* Bigger, Brighter Plants – Guaranteed!

Available Sizes:
1.5 CF
2.0 CF

A & P Nurseries lost a valued member of its team and the Johns family lost a much loved brother. Thank you to all who have expressed their sympathy and support.

Thank you,
Pete, Alice, Cindy and Rob

Gardening Videos

Check out these videos for tips on preparing your garden.

Container Herb Gardening


Germinating Seeds


Xeriscape Design


Winter Vegetable Gardening - Plant Spacing
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=kyw_DPFU1S0

Organic Gardening - Soil Prep
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0WGBmJVNo

For the Novice Gardner

It’s a great time to start planting your vegetable or flower garden. The important thing about starting a garden is ground preparation. You need a good mix of 50% dirt and 50% A & P Moisture Mulch/gypsum with plant starter fertilizer as directed. A list of vegetables and flowers to plant this time of year are listed below.

Kids love to start a garden. It’s very exciting for them when they can see and eat the fruits (or vegetables) of their labors. You might be surprised by the vegetables your child is willing to eat because they grew it themselves. It’s a fun idea to plant an herb garden or a salsa garden with tomatoes, peppers and cilantro. We offer a wide variety of herbs and vegetables. You can view photos of several of the herbs we offer at http://www.apnursery.com/herb.htm