Welcome to the June issue of the Roots Nursery Newsletter! Remember to enable image viewing in your email settings to enjoy photos from the nursery & farm.
𖤓 Happy June!! By now we probably know what has taken, what has not and what will need more work. The great thing about plants, gardening and landscaping is there are never failures just experiments.
May was incredibly busy and I don’t see it settling any this month. We’re shifting from prepping and planting to growing and maintaining.
In May we saw a lot of cooler nights, rain, hail, wind, and more wind. We are hoping to see less of the wild fluctuations and more steady weather- hopefully not blazing hot.
In Case You Missed It
Roots Nursery is now open on Sundays!
Monday-Saturday 8AM-5PM
Sunday 9AM-5PM
The fruit stand is back! We are excited to be leasing the space to another business this year. Fruit Stand Open 9AM-5PM
🐝Bee Update: Our hives are looking good and bees are starting to produce nectar.
Summer Water & Nutrient Management
The hotter it gets (and we all know it will get hot!) the more we will need and want to water.
Instead of just increasing minutes try and increase the frequency. Our clay soils can only take in so much water. The rest needlessly runs off and away. Fertilizing properly and regularly will help water take up thereby having to water less. When changing water it is best to increase/decrease in small increments. Big swings in quantities may shock the plants.
Leaves are often telling with water issues. Yellow and rubbery = too much water. Dry and crispy can often mean too little.
B-1 is a great product in combination with your existing fertilization program to help with shock and root strength of plants.
If your reblooming plants (roses, lilacs, lillies, etc.) have finished their first bloom, it is time to clean those up and cut back a bit so they can set their next set of blooms. Fertilizing those with a bloom booster or blossom booster will help encourage vigorous flower production and a healthier plant. One of my favorites is Jack’s Blossom Booster. A great proven product.
Annuals need to be fertilized regularly for continued growth and blooming. Blossom Booster on a petunia feed is great for this.
Jack’s Classics are water soluble plant food with micronutrients that allow for continued plant health over time. Professional grade fertilizers for home gardeners.
All-Purpose
20-20-20
Provides fast green-up, rapid leaf expansion, and keeps leaves green
For use on all indoor and outdoor plants: bedding and container plants, trees and shrubs, vegetables, fruits and turf
Can be used in combination with Blossom Booster
Petunia FeED
29-6-22
Produces lush green plants in any growing condition
Low phosphorous keeps plants fuller
For use on iron-dependent annuals like petunia, calibrachoa, bacopa, diascia, nemesia, scaveola, verbena, pansy, vinca, etc.
Blossom Booster
10-30-20
Designed to produce more flowers and brighter colors
For use on all indoor and outdoor flowering plants, including vegetables and fruit
Can also be used as a transplant solution
Summer Pest & Weed Management
Beware as the heat comes so do more pests. We have seen a drastic increase in thrip and aphid, and seen some scale and other pests. We are taking both natural and chemical steps to stay ahead.
I suspect that this year will be very tough for pests in and around the valley as the winter wasn’t cold enough to kill anything off. This includes weeds. We have seen a dramatic presence of broad leaf and weedy grasses at the farm and the nursery.
A combination of Hi-Yield Weed and Grass preventer, Casoron, and Hi-Yield Killzall has been our go-to this year. If you are on irrigation water, we are seeing a continued presence of all sorts of weeds that we are managing with Weed-Out Plus Lawn Fertilizer.
Hi-Yield Weed and Grass Preventer
Casaron
Hi-Yield Killzall 365 Total Vegetation Control
Weed-Out Plus Lawn Fertilizer
Plants To Watch Out For This Month
We continue to see more grasses becoming available as they come out of dormancy.
Echinacea, Salvia, Hydrangea, Hibiscus (both Rose of Sharon and Dinner Plate), Weigela, and many more.
Upcoming Sales
Visit Roots during the week before the 4th of July to take advantage of these End of Spring sales!
✽ Annuals 35% OFF ✽
✽ Tree Specials ✽
✽ Veggies 50% OFF ✽
✽ Select Flowering Trees 40% OFF ✽
✽ Remaining Fountains 30% OFF ✽
✽ Pond Plants 25% OFF✽
✽ Select Wall Decor 30% OFF ✽
✽ Employee Secret Daily Specials ✽
Roots has joined the Yakima Klickitat Farm Association
The Yakima Klickitat Farm Association represents our members and the local farming community in Yakima and Klickitat Counties. Our long-term purpose is to protect and support your right to farm and ranch. Today, farms and ranches are under an unprecedented threat in Washington State from legislative and regulatory overreach. We identify these challenges and work to mitigate them.
We also encourage the next generation of farmers by sponsoring local FFA and 4-H fairs and by offering scholarships.
Save Family Farming
We’d like people to be aware of the Save Family Farming group. Visit their website to learn about the education, outreach, and advocacy work they do.
Save Family Farming is the unified voice of Washington’s family farmers. Our unique role is to reach out to the non-farming public to build a better understanding of what our family farmers are doing to grow great food in a way that consumers today now expect. Our farmers, with very few exceptions, are environmental stewards and leaders, are excellent employers who care for and protect the interests of their employees and treat animals with respect and dignity. As more voices in our polarized world speak out against “industrial agriculture” and “factory farming,” we work to set the record straight.
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Roots Nursery Yakima
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