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So we’re back, but we’re different…and that is good.  We are excited to show you our new adventure and share our mission: to bring you the best seeds, the most incredible edibles and the bigger picture.

It comes from our continuing passion to garden, our celebration of the food we eat and the desire to keep you, the children and our planet healthy.  Our new company Garden In The Koop is a culmination of all our years in the greenhouse, in the garden, but especially in your garden.   Everywhere you turn its heirloom vegetables and healthy living.  What we realized is there aren’t a lot of easy, fun how to vegetable gardens that really give you a garden with good taste.

you never know who’s in the garden

Our Incredible Edible Gardens in a box are egg cartons (what else would we bring you from In the Koop than egg cartons?!)   We spent a lot of time putting together great veggie combos to meet all the different needs.    Next month we will bring you the Tea garden and The Apothecary’s Box.  Check them all out on our products page.

Of course we also have our Giggling Garden Line of seeds made for the young and the young at heart-be sure and check out the Dinosaur Kale, The Tigger Melon, the Green Zebra Tomato and many more gigglers.

So we hope you will visit our site and enjoy our new product line and that you will continue to celebrate the garden with us.  Give them as a gift or grow them yourselves; we have picked seeds that will last all year long.

You will find our products online at some of our favorite stores.  We will keep you updated about where you can find us, but we always like to hear from you about places we might like.

As a special hello to our new and old friends we are offering free shipping for all products during the month of May. Just type in friend for the coupon code.

Wishing you good health, time in your garden and even some giggles,

Laura

Suddenly it’s spring-really suddenly. Actually it feels more like summer today 82 degrees.  Tuesday it will be 90 degrees. If I’m confused and scrambling for my tee shirts imagine those lettuce and spinach plants wiping their many brows.  I know there is a big debate about global warming, but this local warming gives me pause.  Enough on that however, back to the plants, the cool weather veggies. 

Oh dear here we have these wonderful little garden kits that we are busily packing and shipping filled with lettuce and spinach and kale and sweet peas and it’s 90 degrees.  What’s a gardener to do?

great for containers

 My solution I check the Farmer’s Almanac.  They have an online resource that gives you two months of weather predictions and so far they have been pretty good. You just plug in your city and state and you get the scoop.  Try it http://www.almanac.com/weather/longrange   For my area, the Southeast, they are predicting a warmer spring (3 degrees warmer) and a cooler summer.  So it’s back to the packing because there are all those folks up north who keep calling and as for around here, there are all those tomatoes, peppers, watermelons and squash.  Besides, my favorite gardener Sue always planted what and when she wanted.  She told me her plants couldn’t read so they did quite well in her garden.  She put the cool loving ones in the cool areas and the heat loving ones right out in the sun.  This has been my philosophy ever since.  I grow lettuce late in the Spring-just in a more shaded area and I plant ones like Red Leprechaun or Freckles that are more heat tolerant. 

lettuces we love

The garden boxes are getting good reviews and it is so much fun when people send us pictures of their new gardens.  Feels very friendly and I like that…  Here s some pictures we’ve received and a few of our own.

seedlings waiting to move to the garden...seedlings day 2

seedlings day 2