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 »
Top Pro 5 Tips on Doing Your Own Landscape Project
Learn the top five professional tips on doing your own landscape from the award-winning team at The Good Earth Garden Center.
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 »
Poinsettia Care
History Here are a few interesting tidbits about poinsettias; they are named after Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Minister to Mexico. He introduced the plant to the US in 1825. Poinsettias are widely considered and most popularly sold as a Christmas plant. As legends tell it, in 16th century Mexico, a poor girl… Read more »