About Trees Our cut Christmas Trees are all Ohio-grown and fresh!
Another important detail of our cut trees is that when
they are 3-4 years old, they are limbed up to about 18" from the ground to
make it easier to mow the field to keep down weeds.
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About Stands
If you're looking for a new tree stand, I would have no
other than the Cinco brand. I've been putting Christmas trees in
stands and have never found a better or easier stand to use than Cinco:
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About Poinsettias Our poinsettias have been "fattened" up with lots of calcium
that makes stems sturdy and thick so that they don't drop or break.
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What's to Do?
Nov 20 - Cover tea & floribunda roses
with 1
foot of mulch for winter protection Nov 21 - Bulk greens & fresh wreaths due
to arrive Nov 22 - Spray Rhododendrons & Azaleas
with
Wilt-Pruf or Freeze-Pruf to prevent
wind burn Nov 24 - Apply Gypsum to lawn areas
susceptible
to road salt damage Nov 25 - Christmas trees & poinsettias
due to
arrive Nov 26 - Happy Thanksgiving!
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for your fridge... Nov 2009 Dec 2009 We're working on 2010!
November 20, 2009 Even though everything has just about shut down for winter, our
Azaleas, Rhododendron and Mountain Laurel “youngsters”, many of which we
propagated last summer, are doing well in a cool greenhouse as they are
developing quite a root system.
We give them a
low concentration of a liquid feed we mix up ourselves that is a “dark
weather” feed as it is high in nitrate nitrogen as opposed to the ammonium
form of which is commonly used in the warm growing season. Read more...
Green Blog -
November 2009 According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, some aspects
of the green energy industry are not so green. Most notably, it is that
windmills are killing our birds! The most notorious wind farm for bird
killing according to the article is located at Altamont Pass, California in
which estimates are as high as 10,000 birds being killed every year.
Michael Fry, of the American Bird Conservancy, estimates that wind turbines
kill between 75,000 and 275,000 birds per year. Read more...
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