Garden

Good Time to Lime

For those of us here in New England our soils are, for the most part, acidic (pH below 7.0). The use of lime is very important for any soil building project around your home or farm. The benfeits of liming include raising pH and neutralizing soil acidity, supplying calcium and magnesium (dolomite lime), increasing the availability of fertilizers and reducing harmful levels of iron, soluable aluminum and manganese in the soil. Lime also speeds up the decomposition of organic matter in your garden or compost pile.

Liming can be done at any time during the year and as a general rule of thumb for maintaining a neutral soil pH (acidity level of 7.0) is to apply 50 pounds of lime per 1000 square feet per year

Products available:

50 # Dolomite Lime Pulverized

50 # Dolomite Lime Granular

40 # Lime-Rite Pelleted Lime

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Good to Know Info

Penobscott Blend Compost & Peat available in 1 cu ft bags

Bar Harbor Premium Potting Soil available in 2 cu ft, 1 cu ft or 16 qt bags

Quoddy Blend Lobster Compost available in 1 cu ft bags

Monhegan Black Earth Top Soil available 1 cu ft bags

Wiscasset Blend Earthworm Casings available in 8qt

Eggemoggin Blend Garden Food available in 20lb

Blue Safe 'N Simple® Lawn & Garden Products

Soybean, alfalfa, cottonseed meal, and corn gluten are the foundation for Safe 'N Simple® roducts formulated with 100% organic nitrogen. Products are in an easy to handle and spread crumbled form. Each particle contains the same blend of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for even distribution of plant nutrients. Safe 'N Simple products do not contain manures, bio-solid sludge, or have a strong offensive odor.

Green Mountain Fertilizer

General Prupose fertilizers in stock now

10-10-10 25lb & 50lb

5-10-5 25lb & 50lb

5-10-10 25lb & 50lb

Lawn Starter - 4-20-10 25lb & 50lb

-promotes turf grass establisment, rooting, disease resistance & wear tolerance. (50lb covers 5,000 sf)

Lawn Supreme 20-3-12 25lb & 50lb

-encourages darrk green color, increases plant vigor and disease resistance. (50lb covers 10,000 sf)

Spring is a good time to start

protecting your Fruit Trees

Early Spring is the time for applying DORMANT spray oil like "Oil and Lime Sulfur" Spray on your fruit and shade trees. Spray Oil smothers insects such as aphids, mites and scale that over winter in the bark of the tree. Spray Oil can be used while the tree is dormant, in green tip or during growing season. Oil and Lime Sulfur Spray has the advantage of helping control over wintering plant diseases but must be used ONLY while the tree is completely dormant, otherwise it can result in injury to new growth including leaf drop.

For an "All Season" spray, there is Bonide Fruit Tree Spray. You can apply this spray to your fruit trees when insects are present or as a preventative for disease and scale damage.

As with any chemical control you always want to use the manufacturers' instructions for application rates for particular varieties of trees and shrubs and follow all listed safety precautions.

Products available

Bonide Oil & Lime Sulfur Spray $7.39 pt

Bonide All Seasons Fruit Tree Spray $12.89/pt & $18.99 /qt