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New Drift Roses! Locally owne d since 1958! Volume 26, No. 2 News, Advice & Special Offers for Bay Area Gardeners May/June 2012 Red Drift s! (At left): These petite Rose roses are perfect for rift the front of border ew D plantings or draped N naturally over a rock wall or ledge. Mature height is less than 1½' with a 3’ spread. Pink Drift Icy Drift Apricot Drift Coral Drift This gorgeous, low-growing Small, white double blooms Apricot Drift’s double apricot Wow! Bright, vibrant coral- mounded rose has deep pink from late spring through frost. flowers bloom all season long. orange blooms cover this small flowers with a soft faded Medium-green glossy foliage This rose is perfect for small mounding shrub from center that blooms in abun - highlights the clean, white, gardens or along paths and mid-spring to mid-fall. dance throughout the season. large clusters of blossoms. walkways as a groundcover. Drift® Roses are a cross between full-size groundcover roses and miniature roses. They are tough, disease-resistant and virtually INSIDE : maintenance-free. They bloom continuously from spring to frost hydroponic gardening, (about every 5-6 weeks) and are naturally dwarf. Their low, manage - low-light succulents, herbs, able habit makes them perfect for small gardens, hillsides, perennial geraniums, new fiberlight beds and awkward areas. Also, their attractive foliage brightens up pottery and the Mighty ‘Mato borders and fills in empty spaces around favorite established plants. 2 Sloat Notebook May/June 2012 10 ways to love herbs this spring 1. Build a small raised bed herb garden. 2. Plant and cook with tarragon. 3. Plant up a good bug tub (instructions on our website) . Herbs like thyme attract bees and repel harmful insects. 4. Plant up scented geraniums. They can basil thyme rosemary chives be used to flavor jellies. 5. Herbs are tactile; plant herbs simply to touch them and release the aroma. 6. Plant herbs without worrying about deer; most herbs are deer-resistant. 7. Grow herbs hydroponically. 8. Grow herbs for tea: mint, lemon balm, mint cilantro dill lemon balm lemon verbena and chamomile. ( See our website for a wonderful mint lemon balm tea recipe). 9. Use herbs in edible landscaping. Ground covers : thyme, chamomile. Shrubs : rosemary, lemon verbena, lavender. Perennial borders : oregano, sage, fennel. 10. Stock your garden with the 12 herbs lavender oregano parsley sage at left. Mighty ‘Mato grafted tomatoes are stronger and faster ed aft growing than regular tomato plants, and their harvests are Gr much, much bigger. Grafted tomatoes were first developed to allow gardeners in areas with cooler, short season climates (ie: Seattle, Portland and San Francisco) to grow and successfully harvest larger heir - loom and heat loving tomatoes. As a result, increased yield and vigor has created demand for these tomatoes everywhere. Mighty ‘Mato has been bred to be resistant to pests, diseases, temperature extremes and poor soils, while producing long, abundant harvests of tasty fruit. Grafting joins the top part of one plant (the scion) to the root system of a separate plant (the rootstock). As their tissues heal, they fuse into one super plant that combines the rootstock’s vigor and disease resistance with the scion’s exceptional fruit quality (but this Green Zebra does NOT mean the plants are genetically modified). When planting, the graft must stay above soil level. Prune Green Zebra is a streaked lateral suckers for best fruiting. Please note: Our 5 grafted tomato quantities are limited. Pre-orders accept - green/gold heirloom with 2” ed at all Sloat Garden Center locations. Sign up to reserve these grafted tomatoes today! fruit. Has a bright citrusy fla- vor balanced with sweetness. d ted ed ted te af aft af raf Gr Gr Gr G Brandywine Beefsteak Black Krim Sun Sugar A scarlet heirloom consid - This bright-red, slightly Black Krim is a Russian Abundant candy-sweet ered one of the world’s ribbed heirloom has a heirloom that’s violet-red, orange cherry tomatoes best-tasting tomatoes. delicious, sweet flavor. slightly flattened with near- with high levels of sugar Produces one pound fruits Ideal for cooking, slicing, black shoulders. Smoky flavor. and vitamin A. Flavorful! with high acid/sugar content. salads or canning. Sloat Notebook May/June 2012 3 This spring we’re carrying an exciting new lightweight pottery line made from fiberglass and resin. Fiberlight Pottery is extremely high quality and well made; its seams and seals will not crack, so the internal core stays dry. This adds years of life to the pot. And did we mention light? The same pots made from clay would weigh four times as much! Gardeners, decorators and designers Fiberlight pots range in size from 15 looking for large, distinctive, statement Fiberlight Pottery inches to 39 inches, in various square, pieces will love Fiberlight pottery. circle and rectangle shapes. Available in black and gray. Your healthy green lawn Last year E.B. Stone Organics installed two electricity- If you have a lawn, E. B. Stone Nature’s Green Lawn producing windmills at their Food is perfect for promoting a thick, green lawn facility. In just one year, the year-round. This 10-1-4 fertilizer is all organic, natu - windmills created almost ral, and includes humic acids to help stimulate benefi - cial soil microbes. twice the electricity used in running their plant One of the great things about organic lawn fertilizers and offices. The windmills is that they are naturally slow release, which means have produced over 179,000 they feed your lawn in a slow, healthy way while reducing the amount of fertilizer that runs off into kWh since they came on waterways. This slow release also means you only line in 2011. That’s enough need to use Nature’s Green Lawn Food four times electricity to power over per year. 20 homes for one year! Nature’s Green Lawn Food is granulated to make it easy to apply. Just spread it out and water in. Easy! (Reminder: never apply We love E.B. Stone Organics fertilizers and soils because fertilizer to dry soil). they help us grow beautiful and healthy gardens, and because they leave a lighter footprint. E.B. Stone recent - We carry Nature’s Green Lawn Food in ly started packaging in new boxes that can be recycled two sizes: the 10 lb. bag covers 1,000 anywhere that recycles milk cartons. Their printer is sq.ft. and the 20 lb. bag covers 2,000 sq.ft. also committed to using the least toxic inks. Look for their new boxes with the zero VOC logo on the bottom. Plant it in the bag with Bagtainer ! Dr. Earth Home Grown potting contains bat guano, earth worm back of the bag), is specifically soil has developed a cult follow - castings, kelp meal and organic tailored for plant health, abun - ing in recent years, especially growth hormones. You can plant dant growth and high yield flow - with the ease of their Bagtainer. seedlings directly in the bag and ering. Simply follow the instruc - grow them to maturity without tions to grow an impressive The Bagtainer remains upright the addition of more guano. organic garden. as the highly reflective bag design keeps roots cool and Dr. Earth Home Grown potting When the season is over, spread plants stress-free. Their deca - soil, along with the weekly feed - the Bagtainer in your garden to dent hand-crafted soil blend ing schedule (printed on the enrich the soil. 4 Sloat Notebook May/June 2012 Back by popular demand THUNBERGIA Cheery, easy to g vines grow sun-loving growin vine. Very fast seed growing with large, from lush foliage, and masses of blooms all summer long in vibrant orange, yel - low and white with a black “eye”. CARDINAL CLIMBER This is a nice part - Add whimsy and fun to a trellis, arbor, ner with scarlet run - column, pole, hanging basket or fence this ner bean or morn - Welcome a robust snack tomato summer with fast growing annual vines. ing glory. Deep red to your garden this year These vines start well from seed, climb flowers with a quickly, and then produce striking flowers white/yellow throat, The Tomaccio is making an encore appear - while attracting butterflies and humming - and fernlike foliage. ance for 2012. This vining cherry tomato, grown for its high sugar content, is an bird. We recommend using Botanical It’s an eye-catcher! extremely robust tomato with an Interests seeds for great results. unprecedented yield. Tomaccio tastes sweet and delicious eaten fresh or dried. Recommended Botanical Interest vine seeds: Scarlet Runner Bean and Hyacinth Bean (both edi - It’s easy to grow in a container or in the ble), Cardinal Climber, Cup and Saucer, Cypress Vine, Black Eyed Susan Vine, Morning Glory, ground. This tomato is in limited supply. Climbing Nasturtium. Call to pre-order your Tomaccio today! The lovely and vibrant geranium: our best selling plant! Fancy leaf geranium classic red zonal geranium Fancy leaf geranium Fancy leaf geranium Scented geranium Martha Washington type geranium There's good reason why the geranium is inland areas. The soil should be well- tone flower on compact plants, making our number one seller year after year. This drained, watered on a regular basis and them ideal for containers. Smaller leafed herbaceous, clumping perennial is low allowed to dry out slightly between water - scented geraniums, with their small delicate maintenance, not bothered by insects, and ings. In warm weather plants should be blooms, are happy in pots, planted with veg - produces beautiful flowers three seasons of watered deeply once a week. Remove faded etables and herbs, and in rock gardens.
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