Tweeting at the Farm

We wanted to let everyone know that we are pushing forward with Gardening 2.0 - having a laptop on the go and in the dirt doesn't work(trust us). But Twitter allows us to provide updates to our friends and gardening buddies when we are on the go, which is quite a bit during the busy season.

Knowing that many of you are like my parents and haven't a clue what Twitter is, let me explain:

Twitter is a free service that allows users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).

We will still be posting to the blog but this provides just another avenue to find out what we got going on in the dirt.

If you don't have an account, check it out. If you are a veteran tweeter, please add us, we are excited to see what you have going on too!

Tweet with you later,
Jeremy

Gardening Goes Wild - Gorilla Gardening

Gardening has become militant, undercover and may perhaps be coming to a weed-filled public dirt patch near you.

Gorilla Gardening is sweeping the nation, heck maybe even the whole world. A revolution that began in the UK is now hitting the US and growing faster than a plant with an overdose of Miracle Grow.

Gorilla Gardening is the illicit cultivation of blooming plants in an effort to beautify unsightly public places.

The idea is pretty simple:

1) find an ugly overgrown area
2) get cheap plants
3) recruit a group of plant-friendly friends
4) wait until nosey neighbors go to bed
5) hit the dirt with an arsenal of shovels
6) plant that plot before the police interrupt the garden party

The official tips are here.

The website includes ideas like how to make seed bombs, which are essentially grenades for gardeners. The beneft is that seed bombs can be thrown to areas that are too difficult to reach otherwise.

This gardening is not for the weak of heart. Gorilla Gardening is the equivalent to Fight Club for gardeners. There is even a Gorilla Gardening community, which helps eager illicit gardeners find each other to start new gorilla chapters.

Who knows maybe we will soon be planting iris by the light of moon in a desolate parking lot before you know it?

See You at Dave's

I passed along http://www.davesgarden.com/ as a tool for you to winnow down which garden catalogs are most likely to keep you a happy gardener as you place your orders for spring planting. When I told our son, Garrett, about that he decided to add us to the site since we aim to provide locally the unusual and hard to find iris, peony, and daylily plants one would normally find only in catalogs. You can check us out here. Along with quality we strive to educate through friendly, reputable service to our customers, which we hope will be enhanced by becoming a part of Dave's community.

Yesterday I received a phone call from someone who heard about us from a friend of ours who owns a local garden center. Lee, of Kingwood Gardens in Frenchtown, NJ told the woman about our iris and the gal was anxious to come visit. I obviously had to put her off until spring since it was 11 degrees this morning and we still have snow on the ground! But in turn I would like to put in a good word for Kingwood Gardens (which you also would want to visit in the spring!). There you will find quality annuals, planters, and hanging baskets, etc. along with friendly, knowledgeable service.

So let us all in the gardening world try to keep high standards, educate, and support each other. And take heart--the first day of spring is just 3 weeks away!

Cinema Botanica (the Cinematic Trailer)