Botanical Interests

Get your garden ready for garlic! Coming soon!

Sowing #covercrops can be an effective step in disease and pest prevention and control. When used as part of a healthy crop rotation, cover crop plants displace disease organisms by replacing their preferred hosts. #clover #redclover Learn more about growing cover crops: https://ift.tt/2bD20eW

Our pepper and tomato plants are looking great! Every year we start them early in our grow room and transplant them outside in May. Our employees enjoy these and other fresh vegetables from May to October!

Lemon Cucumber: This unusual, eye-catching lemon-sized cucumber has excellent flavor and is a great slicer or pickler. It is scrumptious eaten with the skin and all just like you would an apple.

Botanical Interests Employee Spotlight: Joel is our production manager. He makes sure the packing process runs smoothly from the time that the seed arrives to when it goes out to garden centers across the country. He was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and came to the states when he was 12. He now lives with his wife and 4 children in Colorado. He loves to play soccer and hopes to visit the Bahamas some day!

Go green! Add some #organicflowers to the garden this year. We think you (and the pollinators) will be pleasantly surprised! http://ift.tt/2u10Ep8 #Amaranth Burgundy Organic Heirloom Seeds (pictured)

Quick and Easy Flowers: Cosmos: #Cosmos are a superb choice for wildflower or butterfly garden, as they are drought tolerant, and neglect is the kind of care they prefer! Get cosmos seed: http://ift.tt/2Dm6IrH - Double-click cosmos featured in photo -

Our #milkweed brings all the butterflies to your yard... 🎵 🎶 Shop milkweed seed: http://ift.tt/2FnKADo (Link to website in bio)

Butterfly Flower #Milkweed: Beginning in summer, you will be treated to a profusion of fiery, red-orange flowers followed by decorative green seed pods. Drought tolerant once established. Native to much of the eastern United States. Get seeds: http://ift.tt/2FkNMLN (Link to website in bio)

Which #milkweed is best for my region? Botanical Interests offers four milkweed varieties: Butterfly Milkweed, Irresistible Blend, Showy, and Common. Check the maps below to find which variety is native to your region. Read more: http://ift.tt/2FeRA5l

Did you know that butterflies can smell through their legs? Female butterflies use these scent receptors to identify host plants (like milkweed) to lay their eggs on. #monarch #monarchbutterfly #milkweed

Employee spotlight: It takes a lot of time to find seed for 600 varieties! But Alex uses his connections from his market grower days to find us the best seed available. Then it gets hauled in in huge seed bags, where we send a sample off for germination testing. When he’s not in the seed bins, Alex plays the guitar and loves a good Bill Murray flick.

#Pepper growing tip: Temperature is crucial for starting peppers. Pepper seeds germinate much faster if the soil/media is kept at 70°–90°F. At cooler temperatures, they can either fail to sprout, or sprouting may take a month. Learn more about growing peppers: http://ift.tt/2ioECSq

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Online/Catalog Exclusive: ‘Basket of Gold’ #alyssum: Wonderful drought-tolerant #groundcover with dense clusters of golden-yellow, early spring flowers. Get seeds: http://ift.tt/1qAWtJC (Link to website in bio)

Online/Catalog Exclusive: The #Monarch: Saving our Most-Loved Butterfly: Learn all about the monarch butterfly in Kylee Baumle’s beautifully illustrated and informative book. Collection includes four seed packets that are beneficial to the monarchs so you can take action in your garden. Shop now: http://ift.tt/2E5t3LB