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.
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!
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.
I am so excited to tell you that we will be opening on April 1st at 8am! We have been working in the greenhouses since February 1st planting to get ready. We will be having lots of pansies and bulbs. We also have this really nice new flower called wall flower, and boy does it have a nice scent! I hope you will come by and check us out. Our greenhouses are bursting with spring and I cant wait till you see it!!
Thought I would just let you know about some of the features of our website, now that you have found it! First is the news section, I will be creating periodic updates about the crops that are ready now, or events that are happening. We also have a newsletter sign up on the main page of the site. Be sure to sign up to receive emails from Griggs Farm every so often when we have something exciting going on, like the corn is ready! Also check out the calendar which we will be posting events here on the farm and also in the community. If you have an event that you want to list, send a message through the site and I can post it. Keep checking the site to see what is happening here on the farm!
As far as gardening goes at the moment, its almost time to plant your tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers outside. May 30th is of course not only traditional planting date, but the safe time too. After that we will hopefully not get cold enough weather to damage those plants! However you can plant lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, onions now. They like the cold weather.
On the flowering side of things there are plenty of plants that it is safe to put out now, and just a few to be careful on. It can still get to cold at night for impatiens, begonias, dahlias and a few others. However, there are plenty of flowering plants that can go out now with no fear of the weather. It won’t be too much longer when you can plant it all and then sit back and enjoy it!
Thanks for checking and be sure to come back! Happy gardening!
Thought I would leave you with picture I took on May 8th. Its our apple trees in flower. What a sight! Enjoy!
