McKay Nursery Company began selling fruit trees in the southern farmlands of Waterloo, Wisconsin in 1897. We have expanded our operations into many different retail and wholesale spaces, with the most recent being our Garden Centers. We became the owner & operators of our Oregon, WI location (...
Cold season veggies Halfway through writing this post, I got word that Mother Earth Gardens and other local garden centers are reopening again, after doing a limited website ordering/curbside pickup system for several weeks. I’m sure it will not be the delightful shopping experience we once ...
He potted them up indoors so they’d be sprouted and growing before he planted them in the ground of his Wisconsin garden in early June. Most grew and bloomed normally. In fall after the first frost, he writes, “we chopped off the plants with the machete, waited a few days for ...
TheGarden Of The Godsin the Shawnee National Forest is one of those spots. You have to travel to the southern tip of the state to enjoy this view, one of the most photographed in the state, but it's worth the drive. Britton Holley/AllTrails The Garden of the Gods covers over 3,000 ...
in Illinois near St. Louis. For the next three years, to get a better lay of the land which he’d been hired to sell, he made many long horseback journeys alone through southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. While he did use his recently acquired regional knowledge in his new job,...
southern Mexico and Florida. They breed in eastern and northern North America as far west as the Central Great Plains and north into southern Canada. Their time in Minnesota is brief: I usually spot my first oriole in mid-May and see the last one in early September. In addition to Baltimo...
In years past, we have been too busy to visit other garden centers at the beginning of the spring season, so when we did observe them it was always after the first of June. We always assumed that the reason that their plants were so much of lesser quality than ours was that it was ...
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Other than those, you can also search online for even more seed swapping groups. There are lots of them and a quick Google search is all you need to get started. And, searching Google is a great way to find local seed exchanges as well. ...
For example, up in my neck of the woods in Wisconsin, we have four heat zones in the state; zones 2-5 with the cooler (lower number) heat zones in the northern part of the state and the warmer heat zones in the southern and western part of the state and in urban areas. In ...
Plant potatoes after the last spring frost date in your region, as soon as soil is workable. This can be as early as April or May in most Northern regions. In Southern regions that experience high summer temperatures, potatoes do better as a winter crop. ...