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You say "potato"...

3/17/2018

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Once the soil dries out a bit after the spring rains, it's time to plant potatoes, and we have you covered at In the Garden! ​We have quite a selection of seed potatoes to choose from, including traditional varieties like Yukon Gold to the more gourmet ones like French Red Fingerlings. Planting and growing potatoes is easy enough for beginning gardeners to try and can be fun for the whole family.

A week or two before you plant, set seed potatoes in an area where they'll be exposed to light and temperatures between 60 to 70 degrees to begin the sprouting process. When you're ready to plant, use a sharp, clean knife and cut each potato into chunks that each have an eye, or bud. 

Potatoes grow best in rows using a trenching method. Dig a trench in a raised bed or garden area that gets plenty of direct sun. The trench should be about 6 to 8 inches deep. In the trench, plant each potato chunk with the eye or sprout pointing up every 12 to 15 inches. Each row should be spaced about 2 to 3 feet apart, depending on how much space you have.

Cover each potato chunk with about 4 inches of soil to begin with, then, as the plants begin to sprout, use soil you dug from the trench to backfill around it and create mounds around each plant.

Potatoes need regular watering in the hot months of summer. You can start harvesting your potatoes a few weeks after the plants flower. When the plants turn yellow and begin to die back, stop watering.

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Did you know? We also have all the ergonomic tools you could ask for to help get the job done, including Radius trowels, weeders, and scoopers! 
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While you're in the shop, check out our full line of organic and heirloom seeds to make sure your garden is robust with produce this season! Have a question? Our staff are happy to help make recommendations or give you answers!
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Just like plants, we keep growing and growing! Inside our shop, we have shelves of everything you need to keep your garden and lawn in tip-top shape!
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Come see us soon and get the garden you've been dreaming about!

— John
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Perennial Fest 2018

3/17/2018

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Gardening friends, be sure to mark your calendar for our first Perennial Fest — it's an event you won't want to miss!
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 7, we'll be celebrating the arrival of the gardening season with a daylong festival of special deals, giveaways, guest speakers, and demonstrations!

Here's a look at the exciting line-up:

9:30 Perennial Chat with the Boss
John will share his favorites and what's new to the shop in 2018!

10:00 to 11:00
Q&A With Jacob Weber
Join the K-State Extension Agent to get your unique gardening questions answered, and receive a free gardening gift while supplies last.

11:00 to 2:00
Cooking with Herbs and Chatters
Chef Ahmad from Chatters Grill will offer tips and tricks for cooking with herbs in demonstrations that include free food at 11:45 and 1:00.

2:00 to 3:00
Pollinators Need Your Help
Hear from Glenn Salsbury, retired Kansas Entomologist, who will share simple things you can do at home to encourage pollinator diversity and abundance, and receive a free gift while supplies last.

3:00
Perennial Chat with the Boss
John will share his favorites and what's new to the shop in 2018!

3:30 to 4:00
Painting Rocks and Spreading Joy
Bring the kids and paint rocks with Michelle that can then be hidden around the community as part of #PittsburgRocks. All supplies will be provided.

We'll also be doing giveaways and door prizes all day long, including 2 outdoor pizza ovens and 9 fertilizing systems that connect directly to your gardening hose! Other special deals:
  • Buy a perennial plant and receive a free, 5-oz starter fertilizer (1 per customer while supplies last). 
  • Buy a tree and get a free fertilizer (while supplies last).
  • All pottery will be 25 percent off.
  • All mulch will be 10 percent off.
  • And, you can check out our all new lawn-care program to get your green space in tip-top shape for spring and summer!

Join us at the shop and help us welcome Spring! See you there on April 7!

— John and Michelle
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Fall into color and texture at In the Garden

10/11/2016

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Do you love autumn color and texture? You don’t have to go to the Ozarks to get it. You can have it in your own yard — just shop at In the Garden. We have trees, shrubs, native plants, and ornamental grasses that can really pack a punch this time of year.

Among our favorites:

Add color by choosing plants like bush honeysuckle, available to gardeners in two species of bush honeysuckle. They’re easy to grow that can adapt to many soil types, tolerate drought and offer a brilliant yellow/lime green foliage and a deep purplish foliage.

Or, choose ninebark — a deep burgundy native shrub with no thorns, so it’s a good replacement for barberry.

Burning bush also provides a great burst of color and are easy to care for; they will grow in just about any soil and any condition.

On the texture side, add a kind of little bluestem called ‘Blue Paradise.” It’s a native grass that loves sun and doesn’t need water during the dry season, but can handle some wetness. Its stems are deep purple and it provides some neat texture.

Also consider adding a maiden grass called ‘Oktoberfest.’ It has great plumes, and its color ranges from deep red to purple. Other grasses we carry include switchgrass and pampas grass, both of which add color and texture.

Last, but certainly not least in a landscape, are trees. One of the most showy? Definitely ‘Autumn Blaze’ maple.


Or, if you’re looking for a maple with none of those seed pods — we called them whirligigs — that can accumulate and need to be raked, look no further than a ‘Firefall.’ It turns a brilliant red and is seedless!

Wildfire black gum trees turn a deep red but have no fruit, for those who might be planting near a sidewalk or patio and don’t want the mess.

Sugar maples offer you variety in color: they start yellow, transition to orange, then wind up the season with a pop of red. We also carry northern red oak, which adds variety to your landscape because it changes color later than others.

Consider adding a touch of yellow to your yard with a ginko.

Color change

So how does leaf color work, anyway?

Trees contain cells that create food, and those cells use chlorophyll, which gives the leaves their green color. But there also are hidden colors in the leaves, colors called carotenoids. Those are the same pigments that make carrots orange and daffodils yellow.

This time of year, shorter days and cooler nights means trees have less energy for making food, so the chlorophyll begins to break down. The green colors disappear, and the carotenoids are on full display.

Reds and purples show up when sugars — made during warm days, then trapped in the leaves during cool nights — change chemically into anthocyanins. More sunshine = more red. Cloud cover and warmer nights = less red.

Stop by In the Garden today and let us help you make the perfect choice for injecting some color and texture into your landscape!

— In the Garden

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Mum's the word

9/6/2016

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There’s a reason we have the best mums you can buy in Pittsburg, Kansas. OK, actually, there are several. 

We grow them outdoors to withstand the local weather conditions, from excessive heat and dry wind to humidity and rain. This makes them tough and able to withstand conditions at your house.

Ask any botanist and they’ll tell you that plants that are grown locally thrive locally. We also keep a close eye on our mums as they grow and ensure with our irrigation system that each plant is getting just the right amount of water.

Most mums bought at a big box store are grown with a lot of chemicals. Ours? Hardly any. Most mums grown at a box store must all be ready at the same time to insure they can ship them when they have them scheduled to ship. Our growing practices do not include tricking our mums to bloom earlier than they normally would. We like to say we grow ours with a lot of TLC instead of chemicals! We don't make them do things they normally wouldn't. And because of that, they’re better for the environment.

We start planting plugs in June using an interval approach every few weeks so we have up to four crops by the time autumn arrives and you want that look that only mums can provide. We plant several different varieties of the same color because they don’t all bloom at the same time in the fall. Depending on the variety, they are ready from now through late October. 

This year, you can choose from three sizes: 4 ½-inch, 2 gallon, and 3 gallon “monster” mums. You also can choose from six colors: white, red, purple, yellow, bronze, and orange.

We also use mums as a way to give back to our community: Each year, we provide fundraiser mums for the Pittsburg Family Y Academy of Dance, supplying over 2,100 mums this year!

Get your mums from people you know and trust, people who live in your community and who are working hard every day to make sure what you buy is the best quality for the best price. Stop by In the Garden soon and get your autumn on!

— In the Garden

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It's a Gorilla thing

8/25/2016

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Nothing says Pittsburg like a gorilla.

Take a drive around town and you’re sure to see them tucked among maiden grass and shrubs or colorfully proclaiming Pitt State pride at the edge of a parking lot. In the Garden is proud to have placed them there.

But our business has an even deeper connection to Pitt State than just the statues we sell: We dated while students on campus at Pitt State, where we earned degrees in accounting, education and early childhood.

Our entire family enjoys tailgating and attending football games.

It made sense for our business to offer the community a selection of gorillas of numerous shapes and sizes, from several models you can easily lift in one hand to be placed on a desktop, to the largest, which weighs in at 4,000 pounds and recently was installed at Cox Communications.

As the statues gained in popularity, we added more styles and sizes, and now haul them in from regional manufacturers.

What we love most about selling them is the way they help people and businesses show off their school pride. Across town, they remind residents and visitors what a great connection Pittsburg has to the university.
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Let passersby know your pride in Pitt State by ordering one today. We deliver.
— John and Michelle Harrison
#OAGAAG
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