Now is the time to prepare your beds for planting annual flowers, perennials or that vegetable garden you have been planning. The key component to success in gardening is to make sure that the soil is rich and dark and that you plant the "right plant in the right place".
For a vegetable garden make sure that you create and plant vegetable plants in full sun...they need full sun in order to produce. Equally important is the quality of the loam. Make sure that it is crumbly, dark and rich, and if nature did not provide this kind of soil condition, enrich it with topsoil containing compost. Tomatoes, the number one vegetable planted, feeds heavily and can use additional "top-dressings" of compost -- especially aged manure -- throughout the growing season.

Annual flowers, flowering all season from Spring to frost, will always have blooms and color for the front of your landscape beds, containers and window boxes. Be sure to give them the soil they need as well. There are several products available that contain a timed-release fertilizer and water crystals that will feed and keep soil moist all season long. Perennials are garden plants that return year after year and typically have one period of time in which they are in full bloom. If you are in doubt about where or how to plant, drop by or call with all your gardening questions -- we are always happy to assist you with all your gardening needs!