Showing posts with label Healthy soil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthy soil. Show all posts

Monday, February 29, 2016

OPEN 10-4 Saturdays

Here you will find a different atmosphere than most nurseries.
Step into a more relaxed environment. Listen to the birds and take note of the diversity of important pollinator plants growing here. What you might think is a weed, is most likely an edible plant or serves some benefit here (though I do have some pesky plants that get ahead of me, FOR CERTAIN!)
We are trained to think things we don't "plant" are weeds. Wrong. Some of them are extremely important for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and more.
P1050022Ask me...I'll do my best to describe my years of observations.
Permaculture is a broad term. I've practiced it here in my own way for 14 years now and I am quite pleased with what has evolved here. I live here, so expect to see my projects and works in progress. Check calendar for hours.
IMG_2372I welcome volunteers. I can take volunteers on most Saturdays 10-4, (and Sunday's in April/May/June)  I'll do my best to share information with you in trade for help either cleaning up an area, harvesting a wild salad or potting up plants. I might even send you home with a plant or two.
I've used tons and tons woodchips to remediate the soils, because the woodchips sprout fungi and pull out the toxins, restoring the soil fertility and the underground food web network. I let plants decay on the ground as it enriches and benefits the soils mycology. No one cleans up the forests, and they are thriving when man is not harvesting aggressively.
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I grow many plants here, from divisions or cuttings and I only buy from responsible conscious growers, locally.
I look forward to your visit.
Call ahead for EGGS, honey, Wild harvest salad mix or consulting.  Consulting with you about your gardens during my open business hours will have a $35 hr fee. Coming to your site will incur a different rate and I can give you that rate sheet via email.
Check calendar to be certain we are open or call/text 206-819-8544 to schedule a visit.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Wildlife Friendly Gardening for Natural Pest Control

Saturday, April 11th from 11 am to 1 pm 
Village Green Perennial Nursery
10223 26th Ave. SW
Seattle, WA 98146
 Join the Garden Hotline and Village Green Perennial Nursery for a workshop on Wildlife Friendly Gardening for Natural Pest Control!  $20 person
The beauty of songbirds, butterflies, and beneficial insects is ample reason to create a wildlife-friendly garden, but there’s so much more to the picture!  When you provide good habitat for birds and beneficial insects, they will in turn provide you with natural pest and weed control, increasing your garden’s health while decreasing your maintenance time. This workshop will teach you about the plants and design techniques that attract these delightful creatures to visit and live in your garden. We will also cover problematic wildlife and how to manage them in the garden. A Village Green Perennial Nursery garden tour and a chance to pick up some great wildlife friendly plants to take home for your own garden is included. Informational brochures will be available.

The Garden Hotline is managed by Seattle Tilth and sponsored by Seattle Public Utilities, the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, the Saving Water Partnership and Cascade Water Alliance and the RainWise program of Seattle and King County.




Sunday, June 29, 2014

Antique rose simple syrup

Antique rose simple syrup

Made from ancient (historical old roses) rose petals grown organically here on the property.

Can be used in many different ways…


*Sparkling waters flavored to taste (talking rain)
For non alcohol spritzers…
2 tbsp syrup in a 12-14 oz glass
ice
10 oz sparkling water
dash of fresh lemon or lime juice
stir, taste, adjust
add a fresh leaf of herb of choice-flower petals add a nice touch

 
Enjoy!

*Proseco and syrup to taste

*Herbal tea sweetener

*Sweetener for herbal tea popsicles

*Sorbet

*Ice cream

*Flavored ice cubes


For more information on how to make this syrup, please see my website instructional video:
http://villagegreenpn.com/2012/09/17/lemon-verbena-simple-syrup/

Research some old roses: What makes an old rose an old rose?


http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo3618985.html

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/105962in.html

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Organic fertilizers and soil mycorrhizae

Organic Fertilizers
Ciscoe LOVES it!
Why use anything less than the best for your garden?

I have been gardening for years. For many years I mixed all my own fertilizers...I'd buy 50lb bags of fertilizer ingredients, lug them around and custom blend them-a tiring and dirty dusty job!

I was also mail ordering mycorrhizae to add to my soil blends to stimulate healthy root-soil development.
I was blending and bagging the fertilizer to sell to my customers...
TIME consuming!
BUT, this was the most important component to healthy plants...HEALTHY SOIL

Seriously, there must be a better way!

I started exploring the fertilizer options and came across Hendrikus organics
StartRight is a balanced combination of endo-ecto mycorrhizae in a bio-stimulant nutrient base to assist new plants and transplants in their development of root systems and new hair roots. The name "Mycorrhizae" is Greek for fungus roots and it describes the mutually beneficial symbioses between these soil fungi and plant roots. A teaspoon of healthy soil can contain several miles of mycorrhizal filaments that play a fundamental role in establishing and extending root systems, improving plant nutrient and water uptake, disease resistance and plant growth, while reducing transplant shock and drought stress. StartRight re-establishes these essential soil fungi for healthy plant development.
(Reprinted from Hendrikus website) 

I now USE and sell EXCLUSIVELY the Hendrikus line.

For me-there has never been a better product, complete with clear instructions and nice packaging.


Friday, September 21, 2012

Perennials Sale

 As the summer comes to a close, and we begin the return to cooler temps, shorter days and and colorful changes that fall brings, we realize some plants are more sleepy than others...so...

           We're having a 'Sleeping beauty' sale. 
Spring bloomers, trees and shrubs will be so much more vigorous and floriferous in the spring if you plant in the Fall. 
  Why you ask?
 They are dormant.  Strong root development can take place over the winter, resulting in less spring maintenance/watering, and stronger healthier plants.

           The same things apply to Fall planting...
    The success of healthy, well developed plants is 
                              IN THE SOIL. 
                          


Sleeping Beauties SALE 
50%off sleeping/resting plants
Sept 22nd-30th 

Perennials on sale 
Daylilies 
Dahlia's 
Foxtail lilies 
Hardy Geraniums 
Columbine 
Geum 
Hellebores 
Lady's mantle 
Iris 
Hosta's-going to sleep soon (excludes Guacamole) 
Taro 
Lilies 
Shasta daisies  
Carnation 
Monarda 
Daffodils 
Tulips 
Uvularia 
Filipendula 
Yarrow 
Alliums 
Veronica 
Eryngium 
Penstemon  
Bowles golden grass 
Scented geraniuims-houseplant or outside in summer 
Devil's club- a NW native
and more...

Shrubs on sale 
Indian Plum 
Ninebarks 
Barberry 
mystery azalea's 
Gooseberry 

Vines on sale 
(excludes hops and honeysuckle) 
All clematis 
Climbing hydrangeas  
and more... 

Select Roses on sale... 
York and lancaster (overstock sale) 
Complicata (os sale) 
Sissinghurst castle (os sale) 
Evangeline  
Everest Fragrance 
Cardinal Richelieu 
Margarets Rambler 
Golden Showers  
and more...
The only West Seattle source for Hendrikus Organic Fertilizer
and soil mycorhhyzza. Give your plants the right start.

Family owned and operated. 35 years in business.
Community supported.

Sincerely,
Vera Johnson
Village Green Perennial Nursery