Minter Country Garden Blog
Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden
Butterfly-Friendly Gardening Adult butterflies need moist, muddy spots and warm rocks on which to sun. Being very vulnerable to cats, providing a protected location is important. You will also have to rely more on organic methods and less on insecticides to control...
What to Watch for After a Cool, Wet Spring
Normally, when we edge our way from spring to summer, the weather gets a little warmer, a little drier, and out come the shorts and T-shirts. Well, this year was a little off normal! The many days of cool, wet weather that we have had are bound to cause a few problems...
Replacing Your Lawn with Clover
Explore the eco-friendly benefits of clover lawns and discover how to transform your yard into a sustainable pollinator paradise!
Planting Bare Root Plants
All our fruit trees and many shade and flowering trees/shrubs are field lifted and sold to us as bare root plants. All our roses arrive bare root, as do many small fruits, like raspberries and strawberries. Handled properly, the survival rate is excellent. We...
Asparagus!
After a year of ups and downs with the weather, and after several years of economic fluctuations, folks are keen to expand their edible gardens and to get a jump on the growing season ahead to try and maximize what they can harvest in a year. While it’s tempting to...
Blueberries
Blueberry plants have now arrived and they are truly one of the easiest, and most rewarding, plants to grow in the home garden and they truly provide year-round enjoyment. They offer lovely green foliage and white blooms in spring, delicious healthy berries in summer,...
February Garden To-Do List
Groundhogs and lobsters aside, the forecast for the next few weeks calls for many cool, clear days (and we’ll take ‘em, thank you very much!), which gives us a fantastic opportunity to get into the garden and get a jump on spring! Here are the top activities to do...
Pruning: Selecting The Right Tools for the Job
Like a good spring house cleaning, a thorough pruning can make your garden look clean and fresh at this time of year.
Kids and the Winter Garden
Little ones tend to think there’s nothing fun to do in the yard this time of year, but there really is! Bundle up and grab a thermos of hot cocoa—it’s winter gardening time!
Gifts for the Gardener (or Gardener at Heart) 2023!
When it comes to gift giving they say it’s the thought that counts and it’s true! Should you be stuck for ideas, however, we are happy to offer you several. No matter what kind of gardener is on your list, from the ones practically fluent in Latin to those who are...