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.
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!
Comming up this Saturday August 16th from 11-2 is the annual Griggs Farm Corn Boil. We will be cooking up our corn for you to sample. We will have tractor rides going on which will give you a nice tour of the farm. We will also be having kids activies.
Bring the whole family down to Griggs and enjoy this harvest season on your local farm and see whats growing!
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!
