Organic Solutions

We truly believe that ‘going organic’ should be everyone’s default mode when gardening. (Or anything else for that matter). There is a place for chemical controls, but they should be treated similarly to prescription medicines. Only used when absolutely necessary. Natural products, when used in conjunction with nutrition, your own body’s or your garden’s soil, will keep your plants, our insects and animals, and our planet, happy and in balance nearly all the time. That’s why, when you come to us with a disease or insect problem, we are going to ask you about the conditions the plant is growing in, so we can fix the cause of the problem first, and hopefully avoid ‘treatment’ at all. If necessary, we go to natural and organic solutions first, as they usually cause less collateral damage in use and in manufacturing. Any product should be used only when necessary and not ‘just in case’. This is especially true with lawn care. We are proud to carry organic lawn care products that will keep your lawn healthy, but we want everyone to know that biodiversity is key in the health of every ecosystem and that includes your lawn. This means, please welcome some different species than ‘grass’. We may call them weeds, but most of them are meant to be here, while ‘grass’ is meant to grow in England, where limestone is the bedrock of the country. (Are you liming your lawn every year to mimic England? We thought so.)

We will continue to educate ourselves and our community of customers on organic and natural gardening practices, while providing as many organic (certified or not) plants, and natural and organic fertilizers and controls as we think are useful. We also try to provide many options for locally grown and native plants as we can. This helps by reducing shipping and therefore uses less fossil fuels (as well as supporting local farmers), and native plants are hardier than others and will require fewer, if any, fertilizers or insect or disease controls.