Our annual mum sale has begun, lasting from Aug. 1-21, 2010. Choose from an almost limitless assortment of variety and color. We grow thousands and thousands of healthy plants, so there is plenty for all. And the price — only $3.00 per mum during the sale — is fantastic.
As always, we have a large selection of additional annuals and perennials for sale. And through November — fresh produce!! In addition to buying beautiful mums at bargain prices, you can also bring home fresh corn, tomatoes, musk melon — too much to name.
Each week this summer, we offer a selected perennial for sale. Most of our perennials cost $8.98 — already a reasonable price for a healthy plant — and on sale they are only $4.98 each! Our sale items have included dianthus, delphinium, blanket flower, shasta daisy, and a whole lot more. We usually display them at the front gate, so you can’t miss them when you walk in. Stop by and let us help your garden grow — year after year.
Each week this spring, we will feature a perennial flower for sale. This week’s sale item are Columbine Flowers, one of the prettiest flowers available for partly shady settings. On sale for only $4.98 each — this a fantastic price for a healthy perennial!
If you haven’t done so already, stop in for a wide variety of healthy vegetable plants and herbs for your garden. We have many varieties of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, basil — a long list of healthy, inexpensive garden options. We have been selling these since April and are working hard to keep up with your demands. Don’t wait too long — it is now time for planting.
It is that time of year in New England when you can begin to feel safe about planting your tomatoes outside. No promises, but it looks as though there won’t be a frost anytime soon…
We have some of the best tomatoes in the region, grown from seed and then transplanted to six packs, all on our own premise, and almost all of it done by hand. There is no disease on our tomatoes - blight in particular - because we are careful about growing, and all of our seed is new.
Choose from lots of tomato varieties: large beef masters, several smaller hybrids, sweet cherries, grapes that produce A LOT of tomato, all kinds of heirlooms, yellow tomatoes with less acid, tasty orange, and many more. We also have single tomato plants, and porch tomatoes in larger pots. We will likely have them through June, but the busy season for tomatoes and other vegetables begins now…
If you need or want to grow in planters, we can tell you what varieties work best. A quick tip for tomatoes in pots — add a bit of lime to the soil; this will help prevent blossom end rot, those destructive black blotches that appear on the bottom of the tomato.
We also have all kinds of peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, okra, tons of basil — the vegetable and herb list goes on. Stop in and let us help you plan a fall harvest.
Want to learn more about the late blight that damaged the crops last year? Read here, from UMass Amherst: Late Blight Alert
Spring has fully arrived here at Griggs Farm. We have been working hard all winter growing beautiful flowers for your yards and gardens. With the weather getting warmer, we can look forward to planting our 50+acres for all that local, fresh summer and fall produce.
Right now — come see our greenhouses bursting with pansies, geraniums, gerbera daisies, petunias, and many other annual flowers. Outside, you will find our perennial section loaded with plants that will create lasting beauty for your yard, year after year.
For those who can’t wait to get their vegetable gardens growing, we have many plants to choose from, including the cooler spring choices and some of the later summer produce. Early spring options include lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, onion, leeks, swiss chard, strawberries, and more. Soon, it will be safe for outdoor planting of our wide selection of tomatoes, including cherry, grape, heirloom, and various huge, juicy slicing tomatoes. Beginning this week, we will display our usual full collection of vegetable plants, such as peppers, eggplants, squash, cucumbers — you name it. And, just because it is for sale at at various shops doesn’t mean it is ready to be planted outdoors in our unpredictable New England spring; ask and we can help you with what to plant, when. Don’t forget to check out our full herb section where you can find, basil, parsley, rosemary, mints, sage, and lots more to add to your culinary creations.
Thanks for supporting your local farm. See you soon!
As you may or may not know, the northeast was devastated last year by Late Blight on tomatoes. Late blight is an air borne water mold. The good news is that it needs green tissue to survive. So we should not have a problem again unless plants are brought in from southern United States.
The bad news is that it also lives on potatoes. This means if someone tries to save potatoes and replant them, the infected potato tubers could cause a re-infestation. So please plant only certified seed potatoes. Potatoes that freeze or are fully composted will not carry late blight. Be careful of renegade potatoes that are left in the garden or compost pile. Your tomato cages, stakes, etc. will not carry the mold over winter.
Click either image below for helpful information from the UMass Amherst Vegetable Program.
It is time to remember our mothers, god mothers, step mothers, aunts… We offer beautiful, colorful, healthy hanging baskets, potted plants, perennials, herbs, vegetable plants — hundreds of choices for those special women. If you don’t know what to get, just ask any staff member and we will help you choose a perfect gift.
Griggs Farm opened on April 1, offering a world of spring color. Stop in for pansies, tulips, daffodils, and other spring bulbs or cold weather annuals. We also have hundreds of perennials for those who want to get an early start.
Good perennials for April: Flox, in several colors; Bleeding Hearts, in white or pink.
While we at Griggs’ Farm are cleaning and getting ready for spring, we would like to thank you for your patronage this past year. Believe it or not, Easter flowers have already been planted and the pansies have sprouted. Can spring be that far away? We plan on having plenty of vegetables plants for your needs and flowers for your enjoyment. Hopefully the weather will cooperate this year and not be too cold, too wet, or too dry. So get out those seed catalogs, journals, magazines, ect. and collect your ideas and plans for your garden this spring. We will help you implement them. We hope to see you in the spring, and we open April 1st.
It will be on Saturday June 27th from 10-3 at Griggs Farm. We have done this event now for 3 years and it is always a great time. We will be having Judy Forty from Alpine Angels goat farm bringing some goats and showing how she makes goat soap out of the goats milk. And our beekeeper Rick Reault from Bee-cause Apiaries with his bees in a glass hive showing us how bees make honey. We also will be having tractor rides and tours of the farm, face painting and plant a plant. Its all free for you and your family. Hope you can make it!!
you haven’t done so already, stop in for a wide variety of healthy vegetable plants and herbs for your garden. We have many varieties of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, basil — a long list of healthy, inexpensive garden options. We have been selling these since April and are working hard to keep up with your demands. Don’t wait too long — it is now time for planting.
