Blue Moon Farm’s 2012 plant list is in the works. Many new native plants will be available along with the perennials you’ve grown to love and depend on over the years. Look forward to seeing our line of “Rhody Natives”–locally grown plants from locally sourced seeds! This year’s plant list will be online in a few short weeks. In the meantime, feel free to take a look at last year’s list.
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Our first shipment of plants will arrive the first week of March and they will be potted up and nurtured in the greenhouse until the weather warms to the point where we can put them outside. Successive shipments will follow–we look forward to many new varieties and all the old favorites. Feel free to stop by and say ‘hi’ while we’re in the greenhouse potting up. We’ll let you know when it looks like we’ll be up and running for the season, but it’s usually towards the end of March. It really is all up to Mother Nature!

Many people ask us what we do with all the plants over the winter. There are many ways to overwinter containerized perennials and Roses. With our perennials we use the “sandwich method “. We first push all the cutback plants pot to pot to minimize airspace. Once this is done we lay an insulating cloth over the whole block. The cloth is then covered with white plastic poly and tucked under. Then we weigh down all the edges with boards, pallets , and cinder blocks, sealing off the whole block from the air. This helps prevent temperature spikes (both hot and cold) which helps the plants survive. We’ve had great success with this method and will continue using it. Timing is everything, we have to wait for a hard freeze to put the plants in their dormant state, and then uncover before it gets too warm.

As for the roses, we push them pot to pot and pile wood chips over the top to cover the pot and the crown. This prevents the freezing and thawing, which can be deadly for containerized roses. And for the humans involved, we do enjoy a slower pace, but much work is done ordering plants and supplies, cleaning the greenhouse, hiring, and planning for the upcoming season. It’s amazing how quickly it all goes by.

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