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Seasonal Tips

Japanese Beetle Control

Learn tips on Japanese beetle control from the experts at The Good Earth Garden Center.

All About Butterfly Bush

A Pollinators Dream Plant If you’re looking to attract beautiful butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden with a consistent blooming plant then look no further than the butterfly bush! The lovely butterfly bush is a genus of woody flowering perennial that grow appealing fragrant flower spikes that are known to attract pollinators from late spring… Read more »

Cool Season Veggies

When to Plant Timing is tricky; Trey gives some tips on timing under each heading.  You can start seeds indoors this month (February) and plant seedling too, if you are willing to protect them as needed. As a rule of thumb, the plants resulting from directly sowing seeds will be more acclimated and be able… Read more »

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When and What to Prune

If you haven’t read our last blog post, the aptly named Reasons to Prune , we suggest doing so before reading this one. A large part of good pruning includes understanding the reason you are pruning. Coming back to the reason throughout the pruning process will help you keep on track.  When you lose sight… Read more »

Good Earth Gift Cards

  The answer is yes, we do offer gift cards, in any amount!  We aren’t set up for online purchases BUT it’s still an easy process.   If you are local, just stop by the garden center!   If you aren’t local or won’t have the chance to visit us, give us a call at… Read more »

Reasons to Prune

Why do we prune? What is pruning? What are the types of pruning? Some plants need to be pruned, thinned or trimmed back while others do just fine with no shaping, and can even look worse after pruning efforts.  In this post, we want to share more about the reasons to prune and in our… Read more »

Our Staff’s Favorite Gifts

We did this in the fall and wanted to do it again this winter; it’s fun to find out which items are on our team’s must have list!  Each week during this holiday season, we will highlight a team member’s favorite gift or decor item from our Gift Shop.  This is merely a sampling of… Read more »