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April 2010 Volume 9 Issue 1

LEARN! SHOP! SUCCEED! Experts disagree on most things, gardening included. If you need proof try “Googling” for gardening advice. Sorting through the online clutter you can choose between “dry-as-dust” university research sta-tion websites and mail-order catalog hype, endless blogs and online chatter. It’s like a carnival midway. Cut right to the chase. Try www.goodseedfarm.com, click on our “weekly blog” and you’ll see an alphabetical list of helpful topics from “Asparagus Planting” to “Winter Reading for Gardeners”. In simple, plain language we make gardening easy. Need gardening supplies? In our dreams you’ll jump in your car and drive right out to GoodSeed Farm for an entertaining shopping trip, and we’d love to see you. If you’re too busy right now, save the gardening pilgrimage for a sunny weekend and order what you need to-day from our online store. We’ll ship it the next day. You can find our weekly gardening column “Let’s Grow” in six newspapers around southern Ohio. Some of our readers clip and save the column, but there’s no need. Each week we post it on the “weekly blog” page at www.goodseedfarm.com, and you can look up a hundred gardening topics in the

online archive. If you love gardening, why waste your time “Googling” and driving to get the solutions you need? Let us help you. If you love GoodSeed Farm, you can support us with your online purchases instead of waiting in line at the big box. We can guide you right to the products you’ll need, from fer-tilizer to Milky Spore to planter boxes. Not to mention gift cards for your friends and family. Help us help you. www.goodseedfarm.com for garden answers online.

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“Steve’s Soapbox:” GETTING SATISFACTION...

The essence of life is feeding your family and yourself. I challenge you to come up with a higher priority or purpose. It makes me wonder why so many people rush through their mealtimes without even tasting their food. An even bigger concern is the quality and nutrition of the food itself, or whether it is actually good for you. Then there’s the issue of how dependable our complex food supply system would really be in a pinch. You can get control of some of these important concerns. Let us help. It’s a well-known fact that growing and eating your own food is very soul satisfying and rewarding, a proven way to reduce the stress of everyday life. It’s elemental. As a society we’ve let the pleasure and satisfaction of growing our own delicious food slip away from us. We’re just so busy. For some of us it seems like an insurmountable challenge. For others it’s hot, dirty, hard work to be avoided. It’s time to take stock of how we spend our days. Are we really doing what we’re doing because that’s our favorite thing? Or is it just a means to an end? Getting back to what’s most important, we find it’s feeding our family and our-selves. This can be a pleasure and an adventure, something to do for fun with the whole family involved. I’ve been reading this past winter about something called “nature deficit disorder”. The flip side of this coin is the absolute pleasure to be found in being close to plants, and how beneficial it is for children growing up. There’s lots of evidence that being close to nature lowers stress and improves our ability to learn. Growing plants means participating in the miracle of life itself, and when you succeed it is deeply soul-satisfying. Here’s a gift you can give to yourself and your children and grandchildren. It’s a deep-down smile. It’s healing, soothing, relaxing, rewarding, and delicious. You can start with something as simple as starting a few tomato seeds on a sunny windowsill. One step at a time you can get the knowledge of how to grow your own food, a truly healthy form of control that you can master. We’re here to help you and make it easy for you to succeed. Check out our garden tips column in your weekly pa-per or at our website www.goodseedfarm.com. We try to explain gardening in a few really simple words and pictures, keep it simple, focus on the truly important. The next step is to come see us at GoodSeed Farm where you can touch, see and smell live plants that are healthy and happy. Adopt some and take them home as a gift for yourself and your family. The attention you give them can be some of the best moments of your day.

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Start with something simple...

At GoodSeed Farm we are focused more than ever on edible plants. We offer locally grown, earth-friendly, Ohio-hardy fruit and vegetable plants and seeds you can see and touch and smell, plus the personal experience to help you succeed. We’ve noticed that young people really like coming here, being around our plants and animals. This year, let us help you pass on your love of plants and gardening to a new generation.

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We’ve all lost plants due to late spring frost, and we’d all like to get an early start with our garden vegetables without worrying. We also want to protect our treasured flowering shrubs, grape vines, berry plants and fruit trees. Let’s start by understanding more about frost damage. Frost damage occurs when ice crystals form inside the plant. The ice draws water out of the plant and tears open cell walls, causing wilting. It isn’t cold temperature but ice forma-tion that actually injures the plants. How much damage de-pends on how fast the temperature drops before freezing, not so much on how long the freeze lasts. Young, actively growing, flowering, or dehydrated plants are most vulnerable. Because frost hurts new foliage most, the worst damage occurs in late spring, early fall, or after a warm winter period. A February or March warm spell can cause buds to swell and open, exposing them to damage from late spring freezes.

Keeping plants well watered helps. The damage will be less severe if the soil is moist and the plant is not already drought-stressed. The most drought-tolerant plants are also the most freeze-tolerant plants. This gives you a hint which plants to protect and which can make it without your help.

Covering plants helps a lot. Seasoned gardeners don’t over-protect young plants, since plants are more frost resis-tant if they are used to cold weather, but covering plants traps soil warmth around them and protects from rapid cool-ing. Covering should be done when rapid drops in temperature are expected, and then removed as soon as possible. Old bed sheets work well because they breathe, and they are lightweight.

There are products available to protect plants from frost damage. We are excited about a new spray “anti-freeze” for plants called FreezePruf, which is bio-degradable and non-toxic. Spraying this on plants can improve frost toler-ance up to almost ten degrees Fahrenheit, and last up to six weeks. Actively growing plants should be sprayed more often, since new foliage won’t be pro-tected.

This is a breakthrough for tomato plants and other vegeta-bles once they’re too big for the traditional upside-down Mason jar. Other uses include early-blooming fruit trees, hanging bas-kets, and our treasured weeping Japanese maples. We’re also go-ing to try it on our mums, planter pots and window boxes this fall, to extend the bloom season past the first frost.

Get FreezePruf at GoodSeed Farm or order it from us online at www.goodseedfarm.com

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Protecting Your Plants from

FROST DAMAGE

Late frosts can be fatal for tomato

seedlings and other garden plants.

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Perennial PickPerennial PickPerennial PickPerennial Pick

“Ruby Mist” Coral Bells (Heuchera)

An improvement on the traditional coral bells, with striking red trumpet-shaped blooms on tall thin stalks above a mound of silver-trimmed green foliage. Coral bells are easy to grow in most soils, tolerate drought, and thrive in sun or part shade. They have a compact mounding shape that works well along the bor-der, and can also be used as a groundcover when planted in groups or masses. The flower stalks are wonderful in arrangements.

We love to host small groups (from a dozen to a bus-load) and we’ll make it worth your trip if you give us a little notice. We can arrange a buffet lunch or dinner, a tour or presentation, door prize raffle, and a group portrait in front of the quilt barn mural. You can meet rain or shine in our café patio, sur-rounded by flowers. If you like you can hold your regular business meeting. Then we’ll give you a personally guided tour and make sure everyone leaves with a door prize. Meals are catered by the White Star Restaurant. They do a nice job, including sandwiches, salads, beverages and desserts for only $10 per person (minimum $100). Clubs pay White Star directly, based on the number of reserva-tions agreed upon the day before you visit. Because it’s a buffet format and there’s plenty of food we can easily ac-commodate a few more or less on the actual day. Sound like fun? Call or e-mail us and we’ll put your group on the schedule!

Waverly Garden Club in front of the

quilt barn mural ~ Spring 2008

Calling Your Garden Club!

Help Wanted!

We are looking for a few good part-time associates who can work with customers in our garden center on week-ends and holidays during the busy gardening season. The pay is modest and the work is taxing, so only the deter-mined need apply. Our ideal candidate brings a lifetime of experience dealing with all kinds of people, grace under pressure, pa-tience, resourcefulness, and most of all a quick smile no matter how trying the situation. If you think you qualify and are willing to give us at least one weekend day every week, call us at 937-587-7021.

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Learn Low Maintenance

LANDSCAPING We’re offering a night-school “crash course” in landscape design, in-stallation and maintenance this April at Southern States Community Col-lege (South Campus in Fincastle, Ohio) in the Appalachian Gateway Cen-ter. In a few evenings we can share with you a lifetime of practical experi-ence. Learn how to expand your living space, install like a professional and maintain your landscape the easy way, by “teaming up with nature”. The course instructor will be Steve Boehme, Owner of GoodSeed Farm Country Garden Center and writer of “Let’s Grow!”, a weekly column on gardening and landscaping. The course begins with a one-night overview “short course”, followed by three detailed sessions. Tuition for the course is $39. To enroll you can contact Russ Brewer at 937-695-9002 (rbrewer@sscc.edu) or John Joy at 800.628.7722 X 4555 (jjoy@sscc.edu)

“Short Course” Introductory Overview ................................................. Wednesday, April 7 7-9pm Session 2 ~ Landscape Design Basics for the Home Owner.................. Wednesday, April 14 7-9pm Session 3 ~ Selecting the Right Perennials, Shrubs And Trees.............. Wednesday, April 21 7-9pm Session 4 ~ Planting and Caring For Low Maintenance Landscapes ..... Wednesday, April 28 7-9pm

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Pictured above is the proof for the very first quilt barn mural in the country to be reproduced as a “Cat’s Meow MY WORLD” collectible. This is a model of the LeMoyne Star quilt barn at GoodSeed Farm, on the coun-try’s first quilt barn mural trail, the Adams County “Clothesline of Quilts”. You can own one for $24.99. Pick one up the next time you’re at GoodSeed Farm, or on our website at www.goodseedfarm.com.

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A limited number of GoodSeed Farm quilt barn models are available autographed by Donna Sue Groves, originator of the “Clothesline of Quilts”. Her creation has become a national craze, inspiring almost 100 dedicated trails so far. Recently, health problems have taken Donna Sue out of circulation as she battles cancer and other challenges. Please support Donna Sue with your purchase of an autographed, limited edition numbered collectible. Cost is $49.99. Half the pro-ceeds will benefit Donna Sue directly. To order yours call GoodSeed Farm, or order online at www.goodseedfarm.com.

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March 1, 2010March 1, 2010March 1, 2010March 1, 2010 Open for the 2010 Season: Open for the 2010 Season: Open for the 2010 Season: Open for the 2010 Season: Seeds, Easter flowers and early season color as we kick off a new gardening year! Hours: Monday-Friday 8AM-6PM, Sunday Noon-5PM

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