Foxglove bears tall, dramatic spikes of tubular flowers with speckled throats. Foxglove blooms in midsummer and adds elegance to a perennial border, woodland area, or shade garden.
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Here at Bob’s we stock a wide selection of containerized trees. Choosing the right tree for your landscape can be a tough choice. Are you looking for a fruit tree, shade tree, or beautiful blooms? However, once you get your tree home, planting it takes some elbow grease, but the process is quite simple.
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Picture the countryside in a Victorian drama, an orchard in the 1700s, or … the Shire. Who wouldn’t want to take off their shoes and relax like a hobbit?
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Over the next few weeks we’re going to talk about foods you can grow inside during the winter. One of the absolute easiest vegetables to grow on the kitchen windowsill is microgreens — the perfect topping for any quick salad.
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Pressing flowers is a fun way to keep your favorite plants around throughout the whole year. There are four main ways that you can press flowers. In this post, contributed by FTD, you’ll learn the techniques to create beautiful pressed flower displays.
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Testing your garden's soil is important. If you live in West Virginia, you can get your soil tested for free through WVU's soil testing lab. John Morgan recently got his soil tested and documented the process in the video inside.
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Fall is just around the corner. Pretty soon you’ll start to see fall displays of pumpkins, mums, and corn shocks. Today corn shocks are used as a decoration, but a little over a century ago they still served a very real purpose.
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To harvest potatoes, you’ll need a shovel or a spading fork. If you’re harvesting for supper, drive your fork into the soil at the outside edges of the plant. Carefully lift the plant and remove the potatoes you need. Set the plant back in place and water thoroughly.
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Unless you live in an area where summers are really short, you're better off sowing some types of vegetables directly in a garden.
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2016. Where do I begin? … It’s been an … interesting year. On the bright side, here at Bob’s we continued to grow thanks to amazing customers like you! Just this month we broke ground on a totally new facility at our Belpre, OH market. Get ready for some big changes in 2017!
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The Florida Weave. Is it the latest dance craze sweeping Miami? Umm no. It is a surprisingly simple way to tie up tomatoes.
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During my 40 minute drive to Bob’s HQ each morning, I like to listen to podcasts. Among my favorite podcasts is Freakonomics Radio. Last week host Stephen Dubner explored the complexity of making something as simple as a pencil. The episode featured a famous economics essay, “I, Pencil: My Family Tree” by Leonard E. Read. When you visit one of our markets, you are only seeing a small part of a huge supply chain. Let’s take a look at how a plant grown from seed gets to one of our markets. Since spring is just around the corner, let’s take a look at growing pansies.
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