Volume Volume 1414 Issue Issue 11
April April2016 2016
Growing With Us
“Skimming the Cream”
We learned many years ago that we shouldn’t be nursery growers, and it’s been many years since we tried it. Confused? Let’s make it perfectly clear what we do all day, and it’s not growing plants ourselves. It’s skimming the cream. That means finding the absolute best growers and suppliers, cherrypicking from what they offer, and doing our best to bring the best plants and gardening supplies to GoodSeed Nursery for our customers. For example, our annual tree-buying pilgrimage to “Tree City USA”, McMinnville Tennessee. It’s a father-son ritual we look forward to each winter. We travel to our favorite tree nursery, a family-owned small business like ours that we know and trust. We spend a day walking their tree rows, picking out the healthiest, strongest, shapeliest trees they have, and flagging our choices with colorful ribbons. Our trees are dug during February and March and shipped to us in April, and we know exactly what we’re getting because we picked them ourselves. We found early on that we could never grow perfect trees as efficiently perfect as a large-scale nursery. We look at thousands of trees, in wintertime when we can really see their structure and shape, and buy the absolute best of each variety. The rest go to some other garden center or big box store, and Steve flagging trees at out favorite tree nursery. We their customers have to pick through trying to figure out which one is the personally select every single tree we sell. healthiest. We’ve already done that for you. Over the years we’ve experimented with many growers and found the ones we can depend on for quality, and only accept the best of what they grow. Marjorie does our perennial buying, focusing on the tried-and-tested favorites and scooping up interesting new introductions. We have some terrific Ohio growers (with acres of spotless, state-of-the-art greenhouses we could never afford) for annual flowers and bedding plants that are pure perfection. Our vegetable plants come from a local Amish family, grown without chemicals. Our sweet onion and sweet potato plants also come from specialists. Even our garden remedies, mulches and fertilizers are carefully focused. Why show you multiple brands of the same type of product? Our job is to pick the most effective, best quality gardening solutions to recommend. Plant foods from Espoma Organics. Bonide garden remedies and organic alternatives. Virgin hardwood mulches. Mushroom compost and natural pine bark. The cream of the crop. Why confuse you with anything less?
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