by Blue Gables | Jul 12, 2021
Without bees, butterflies and other bugs, we’d have no flowers. Or food. Zinnias Are Butterfly Magnets I remember the first year we grew zinnias. They started to bloom in late June, and we were impressed by the volume of flowers they put out. Some flowers are known as...
by Blue Gables | Jun 18, 2021
Weeds are a part of life, not just with gardening, but all aspects of life. We bet you’ve dealt with some weedy people, or a weedy job or maybe a weed of a teacher or boss. It’s All About Context The funny thing about weeds is that they are context dependent. When it...
by Blue Gables | May 15, 2021
We saw a rainbow over our flower field this week. It was a reminder that rain and sunlight are two of the three key ingredients we need to glow our flowers (soil, too). It was also a reminder that we can’t do much to control two of those three ingredients. Like our...
by Blue Gables | Apr 13, 2021
So much of what we do at Blue Gables Farm is an exercise in faith. When you plant, there are numerous variables that you can’t control — weather, disease, pests and markets. When you plant in the fall with an eye to the following spring, there is even...
by Blue Gables | Mar 1, 2021
March 1 marks the beginning of seedling season. Each spring we start thousands of tiny plants in multi-cell trays that we put on heat mats and under grow lights. These seedlings will grow for the next month or two until the weather is warm enough for them to be...
by Blue Gables | Feb 20, 2021
As bleak as things may appear in the third week of February at Blue Gables Farm, little plants are happily growing in our flower field. Back in the fall, we planted six varieties of “cool flowers,” which are hearty enough to survive Maryland’s winter. We covered the...
