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TRANSPLANT SALE DETAILS!
02/24/17 — Heydon Hatcher
Photo by Scott David Gordon.
We have nothing but transplants on the mind these days. The 2017 JBG Transplant Sale is bigger than ever, and we can't wait to see your home gardens flourish. This year's selection is more varied and extensive than ever... we have 110 different fruit, herb, and veggie offerings including varieties from Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. Crazy, right? We have really begun to focus on diversifying our crop offerings over the past couple of years, with fruits on the forefront of this vast endeavor. We started pear, pomegranate, and fig orchards last year with expansion plans currently in the works, along with our table grapes (which will be readily available at markets this summer!). This year we are also planting a muscadine and persimmon orchard. We’ve spent a lot of time researching and scrutinizing what fruits will thrive in your backyard garden through colleagues’ fruit-ventures, our own experiments, plus poring over the subject with Texas A&M experts.
Photo by Scott David Gordon.
Photo by Scott David Gordon.
Through trial and error, we seriously believe that the crops that we have carefully selected are the best adapted varieties for your Central Texas backyard. We stand behind what we are offering the community 100 percent. The vegetable and herb transplants are all certified organic, while the fruit trees are GMO free (next year, we hope to grow all the fruit transplants and guarantee that they are certified organic).
Photo by Scott David Gordon.
Photo by Scott David Gordon.
We have also spent a lot of time ensuring that our website is an effective and valuable resource for our community, especially with regard to the transplant sale this year. Just pop onto our site and peruse the massive menu of fruits, herbs, and veggies… we even have pecan trees for sale this year (the best two varieties, too!). We can deliver your transplant order straight to one of our farmers’ markets, or if you’re a CSA member - we can even deliver them to your house or to your regular CSA pickup location (just login to your account before ordering). If you end up coming to one of the March weekend transplant sales out at the Garfield Farm, you will be pleased to know that we will also be offering special organic soil mixtures, compost, potting mixes, plus tomato stakes and cages, too!
Photo by Scott David Gordon.
We know that starting or augmenting your backyard garden can be a daunting prospect, but we are here to help! Not only do we have some of the best backyard gardeners on staff, but our Greenhouse Manager, Brandon, will be leading a gardening workshop on March 11. This workshop is designed to equip Central Texas gardeners with the tools they need to plan and execute a successful spring vegetable garden, and is designed for novice and experienced gardeners, alike. We wrote a post last year prior to the 2016 transplant sale with invaluable tips about prepping your backyard garden for our transplants, check it out here. We also thought that this might be a good chance to inspire you with backyard gardens (and delicious harvests from said gardens) that we like to ogle from local edible gardeners and friends. Check ‘em out below!
Garden Inspiration:
The original Johnson's Backyard Garden.
Michelle Treichel's garden.
Gardens by Blake Chalfant.
Gardens by Blake Chalfant.
Today's tomatoes, plucked just before the squirrels descended. #saucysolstice
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