What's Growin' On...

Happy New Year and welcome to a new Decade. As the Harper family enters our 65th year in business we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for you support,loyalty,and patronage! We also would like to tell you about a change we are making to our newsletter format and schedule. We will send a weekly tip that will be timely and important to your gardening success. Once a month, the third week, we will send out a newsletter that will inform you of our 3rd Saturday event and garden club activity plus coupons and promotions. We hope this will serve both the need for good timely gardening information without having to read a whole newsletter and also reward your our best clients with special pricing and updates on events and sales! Thank you again for the many years of support and Here is to a brand new decade!

Early January Gardening With the holidays behind us it is sometimes tough to get back into the swing of gardening tasks. If you're anything like me, however, you could use some exercise! As we took down the decorations some gardening activities arrived about as slyly as old St. Nick. It is time to plant! Grape vines, Strawberries,Artichokes,Black and Boysenberries,and many varieties of deciduous fruit trees have arrived and are ready to plant. Be sure that you follow our planting directions for best success. These plantings need to get off to a fast start and proper soil preparation is key to success! Also remember our lifetime guarantee applies to the berries and trees if you follow the proper techniques. When planting what we once called "bare root" plants we suggest that you take them home and plant them immediately. We have pre soaked and potted these plants to that the roots don't dry out. Dehydration is the biggest enemy to deciduous plantings and we have tried to make sure that the time these plants spent with roots exposed was minimal! A sneak peek at next week---ROSES!!!

We hope you will find our new format and schedule of gardening information helpful and informative. Remember to drink more water,that no one is in charge of your happiness but you, spend time with someone over 70 and under 7,pray more, don't compare yourself to anyone else,what other people think of you is none of your business,God can heal everything, and the best is yet to come! Good Growing!! The Harper Boys