Please enter a search term to begin your search. Please enter a search term to begin your search. We are orchid growing enthusiasts with years of experience testing, evaluating and using all of the orchid supplies we offer for your orchid growing hobby. We make our own orchid potting mixes and use only theWe have 10 custom blends of potting mix made with sterilized Rexius orchid fir bark, Orchiata New Zealand bark, washed coconut husks, AAA sphagnum, coir fiber, hydrocks and other ingredients to promote healthy root growth and blooming orchid plants. We have orchid potting mix for Brassavola, Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Epidendrum, Lycaste, Masdevallia, Miltonia, Odontoglossum, Oncidium, Paphiopedilum, Phalaenopsis, Phragmepedium, and many other species from orchid seedling to specimen orchid sizes. We also carry a full line of beautiful ceramic orchid pots, orchid baskets, humidity trays, urea-free orchid fertilizer with micro-nutrients, orchid mounting wire supplies, virgin cork bark, tree fern products, T5 fluorescent grow lights and much more.

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Jen, we'd like to grow some fresh mint too. We can find it in small packets at Whole Foods and such, but it usually has black spots and is a little limp. Mint is best fresh from the garden. Mint is also a good potted plant; in the garden it tends to take over and is quite invasive. We like to keep a big pot of it going in the summer. We don't keep it in the winter, however, and we turned to our gardening friend Jennifer Bartley to ask about growing it indoors. Jennifer is the author of Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook and blogs at American Potager. She told us that mint needs a sunny window. It may get a lanky as it stretches for the light because it really prefers full sun. Ohio gets so little light in the winter (we know!) that it may be difficult to give it enough. You can try using grow lights as well. But try a sunny window. Jennifer also suggested trying curly and flat leaf parsley, which both tolerate less light and may do better indoors.

As far as growing mint, we suggest using a large, deep pot like the one below in order to allow it to grow wild. Mint will really sprawl! You can purchase mint seeds at a garden store and start them yourself. You can also look at organic grocers for small plants; transplant these to a larger container and give them plenty of sun. Garage Floor Paint Or SealerThey should take off fairly quickly. How Much Fabric For Swag CurtainsWe have always had good luck with mint; Modern Balloon Curtainsit just loves to take over whatever container it's in! You can also purchase mint plants online here: Amazon mint plants and seeds listings (Image credit: Apple Mint at Victorian Nursery) Originally posted by Faith on The Kitchn.

Between the Seasons Blog Keep up with stories of local food in between publications. The (mini) Mushroom Maestro By Molly Hays, Photography by Robin Oatts Te'Lario Watkins II and his mushroom enterprise. Show a young child a seed’s magic, and you can expect surprise, typically; a budding gardener, if you’re lucky. But if you’re 7-year-old Te’Lario Watkins II’s family? Buckle up, because before you know it, you may find yourself with a mushroom farm where your spare room once was, plus summer weekends suddenly set aside for mushroom sales.Young Te’Lario’s growing journey began with a Cub Scout project last spring, which set him up with his first two seedlings: one catnip, one basil. It was love at first plant. Pride and enthusiasm fill his voice, as he enumerates each step of his seeds’ care: “I watered them. I kept them in my guest room. I used a grow light.” Water, shelter, light: the small, steady, vital attentions of gardener and crop, caregiver and charge. 

With a Columbus winter on the way, and a longing to foster their son’s new passion, Te’Lario’s family hit on mushrooms, which could be grown entirely indoors. Beginning with a boxed kit from Back to the Roots, Te’Lario tended his new crop, spraying it twice daily, watching, waiting, until finally, finally, they were ready. Two weeks—“a long time!”—after the kit arrived, Te’Lario harvested his first oyster mushrooms. Which, for the record, he loves to eat, in pasta alfredo. He soon became a Junior Brand Ambassador for Back to the Roots, a child-centered role for which he interviewed with the company’s co-founder, via Skype. As an ambassador, Te’Lario sold three kits; wears his Back to the Roots T-shirt with pride; and shares his mushroom-growing experience with peers and grown-ups, alike.Many kids would’ve stopped there. Not Te’Lario Watkins II. He was just getting started.This spring, Te’Lario and his family converted their guest room into a mini-mushroom farm, erecting shelving, installing grow lights, and embarking on five different mushroom crops: shiitake, oyster, golden, pearl, and blue.

This new, substantial mushroom endeavor is no kit. Te’Lario and his parents begin by prepping the mushroom’s growth medium, straw, which must be pulled from the bale; cut into two-inch lengths; boiled for two hours to sterilize; carefully cooled to precise temperatures; and finally, packed into baskets, where it’s inoculated with mushroom spawn. “He wanted to do it, so we went full throttle,” says LaVanya Watkins, Te’Lario’s mother, in a shining example of maternal understatement and support.Three weeks of misting and monitoring later, the mushrooms are mature and ready to harvest. And what will Te’Lario do with his bounty? Learn to grow something else, still: a small business. He and his family will market his fresh, homegrown mushrooms at the Easton Farmers Market on Thursdays from 4pm to 7pm on June 4, 11, 25; and in May through September every second and fourth Saturday from 11am to 2pm at the 400 West Ridge Market.And what lies ahead for this mini-mushroom mogul? At 7, only time will tell.