Grow University - Free Online Plant Courses

College courses can be time-consuming for those who have tight schedules, as well as pricey, but Harley N. Smith, a plant expert with twenty years of experience, offers free, online courses.

All you have to do is visit www.growuniversity.net, scroll down, and click 'Grow University Upcoming Trainings,' and register for a class. Classes can fill up, so be sure that you sign up!

All you need is your name and e-mail, and reminders will be sent to your e-mail with a url that will link you directly to the class. Classes are only 45 minutes long, and you can ask questions, either through the chatbox or through a microphone. These classes are great for those who want to know more about plants without paying a dime!

Massive Spring Planting

We've been getting a lot of work done lately for our spring planting. We will have hundreds and hundreds of plants available within the next couple of months! It's going to be incredible, and maybe a tad bit of a stressful (but super fun) process. This is our very first time spring-planting, but so far, it's going quite smoothly. We'll catch up and take plenty more photos when all of our plants pop out! For now, what we are planting is going to be our little secret. We will announce later on what we're doing. Stay tuned!

This is what spring planting looks like! Rows and rows of
soon-to-be plants.

Seedlings are popping already!

Can't forget the bulb planting too! We already planted over a
hundred total! Whew, that was a lot of work.

In the process of getting our grounds ready to plant some
wildflower seeds! They look beautiful in our arrangements.

Hard work churning, breaking, and smoothing out the soil.

Don't worry about the rest of our plants; they are cozy and
warm in our little greenhouse! They will be protected
until we take them out in the spring.

Autumn Sunflowers

Thought we would share some of our special sunflowers! We had two of them bloom yesterday and another one getting ready to fully bloom by this afternoon. We love sunflowers in general, but these red beauties are absolutely perfect for decorating for autumn!

Though we didn't have too many sunflowers for our first year, we are definitely going to try to have hundreds- yes, hundreds- grown for next summer and autumn. Our first time growing the sunnies turned out to be a great experience, not to mention how our faces lit up whenever we saw that one of them bloomed.

Amazing to think that a beautiful flower started out like this!
We were excited when we saw the burgundy petals peeking
out.

If you love sunflowers, then you will love this one. Freshly bloomed!

If you look closely at this sunflower, you can see other colors other
than red. Interesting!

A close up of the petals. Now you can start to see shades of
green, brown, and a hint of yellow.

Red and yellow!

Even from far away, they are gorgeous.

Woke up this morning to see a third sunflower blooming. Boy,
we are going to have some gorgeous flowers for the next
Farmers' Market! We are very excited.