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Yellow Boots Yard Care Are you feeling a bit overwhelmedby the amount of spring gardeningchores you need to get done? Treefeeding, pruning, mulching,replenishing garden beds, planting,and maybe even grafting? Or areyou planning your summer vacationand wondering who you can trust tocare for your garden while you areaway? Yellow Boots Yard Care canhelp you! While most landscape maintenanceand yard care companies are "blow-and-go" operations that just mowlawns, trim bushes and blow leaves,Yellow Boots offers morespecialized care needed byvegetable gardeners and fruitgrowers. Owner, Jennifer Layton, isan experienced gardener and is in the Landscape Horticulture Program at Mesa CommunityCollege. Jennifer is the brains behind the operation and her husband Kimball is the brawn. Together they make an awesome gardening team. The proof is in their own yard where theyhave healthy tropical fruit trees, stone fruit trees, and 8 bountiful vegetable garden beds.

Jennifer Layton, owner of Yellow Boots Yard Care

Urban Farm Pop-up Nursery OPENFri April 19, Sat April 20, 9am to 3pm- The Nursery & General Store is openfor Citrus Tree Pick-ups. This is wherewe will have CITRUS trees ready forpick up. We also have a few deciduouspotted vines, bushes and treesavailable. The pickup address for allyour trees is: 4549 N 7th Street,Phoenix, AZ 85014 (You can use 731 EMeadowbrook for your GPS) Phoenix Spring Plant Swap Hostedby Dig It Gardens on Saturday April20th at 2 PM – 3:30 PM Come join usfor our first annual Spring Plant Swap.Let’s grow our plant collections and setsome roots down in our community. Allproceeds from the event will benefitEpilepsy Foundation of Arizona andHarvesting Hope. What to bring: Pleasebring a few plants your havegrown/propagated to trade. They canbe potted or bare root. They should befree of any pests and labeled. If you arenew to the plant world and do not haveanything to trade, you are still welcometo come make some planty friends!Space is limited. $5 donation is non-refundable. If you have questionsplease send Trinity a DM on Instagram@wildbynaturedesigns or email:wildbynaturedesigns@gmail.com Dig ItGardens, 3015 N 16th St, Phoenix,Arizona 85016------------------------------------------------ Retailers of Organic Trees / PlantsStarts -

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The Layton's have 104 fruiting varieties in their yard (10 vines, 32 grafts, 62 main trees). Most of their trees are tropical - 16 mangoes, 4 avocados, and 1 lime tree with 11 grafts on it!These two avid gardeners have experience with plant and tree installation, flood irrigationmanagement, foliar feeding, cold protection of tropicals, shade structure construction, organicpest management, fruit tree pruning, and garden rehabilitation.

Hoop structure over very happy and healthy mango trees in Layton's garden, provides cold protection in winter, and shade protection in our hot summer months.

The Layton's dog Nora warns me to stay away from her mango trees!

soursop.GreenLifebyshamusoleary.com A Tropical Concept Plant Nursery -Call and check on what is in stock at(602) 315-1966. Carries a wide varietyof mangos, atemoyas, sapodillas,custard apples, guavas, grapes,bananas, starfruit, barbados, surinamcherry, black surinam, passion fruits,mamey sapotes, longan, lychees,jackfruit, tamarind, mulberry, pineapple,sugar apple, jabitocaba, june plum,miracle fruit, and coffee! Need citrus?Kumquats, limes, lemons, mandarins,tangerines, grapefruits, and cara cara. Arcadia Color Nursery - Locallygrown plants starts, and all thewonderful and different plant speciesyou could previously find at BakerNursery. Farmstand / True Garden - Needseedlings for your Tower, hydroponic orraised beds? True Garden has over5000 seedlings (100 varieties) ready toship which are grown in their state ofthe art, solar powered greenhouse. Ifyou are local to the Mesa area you canshop for them at the Farmstand facility,Wednesdays and Saturdays from8:00am to 12:00pm. Farmstand alsoships seedlings to the lower 48 states.All orders received by midnight onSunday will ship on either the followingMonday or Tuesday. 5949 E University,Mesa (University and Recker) Dig It Urban Gardens and Nursery -Check FB page or call (602) 812-7476for updates on current inventory. Richard's Garden Center (GardenCity) - Has a variety of plant starts now!Inventory changes daily! Please call623-434-6922 for Prices, confirmavailability, or 24 hr. hold. Check here for latest inventory.

Elgin Nursery and Tree Farm is aretail and wholesale tree and plantnursery that offers a wide selection ofnative, desert adapted, Mediterranean,and tropical plants. With over 35 acresof production area, Elgin's has a greatselection of locally grown quality treesin stock up to 36 inch box. 8606 W.McDowell Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85037,Phone: (623) 936-1100. Mon – Sat:7am-5pm Sunday: 9am-4pm

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In February I was dreading having to make the decisions of what to prune off of my dwarf fruittrees and grape vines, so I called in Yellow Boots Yard Care to help. I also wanted to graftmore varieties onto my fruit trees. Jennifer and Kimball did a great job, handling my youngfruit trees with the care and attention to detail that they provide their own trees. Kimball evenbrought scions for my trees and grafted them on using the Tongue and Whip method. So farall of the grafts look good!

I originally met the Layton's at a grafting workshop hosted by Don Olson at Greenlife TropicalNursery. Expert fig grower Jeannine Sander demonstrated how to graft. From there Kimballwent on to learn more grafting techniques from local expert tree grafter Jason van dem Bemd. Together they grafted over 50 varieties of apple scions onto the Layton's huge Anna's appletree!

Kimball Layton grafting Black Mission Fig scions on to my Kadota Fig tree under the supervision of my fearless garden-guard dog, Buster Brown.

My Fuji Apple (high chill hours) tree now has Anna's Apple (low chill hours) grafted on! Now I have a much better chance of getting fruit from this tree!!

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So go ahead and plan that vacation, just be sure to schedule Yellow Boots Yard Care to tendto your garden while you are away. Jennifer will even send you photos of your plants toreassure you that all is well at your homestead!

Yellow Boots Yard Care

(servicing the East Valley and Scottsdale) https://yellowbootsyardcare.com/

(480) 250-9982 E-Mail - yellowbootsyardcare@gmail.com

If you are interested in grafting and looking for scions or have scions to share, check out Jason

van den Bemd's Facebook group Arizona Fruit Tree Scion Exchange.

The Layton's 20+ year old Anna's apple tree glistens with silver scion tags.

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