Flutterby Gardens via the North End Organic Nursery: Hello Spring!

Flutterby Gardens via the North End Organic Nursery: Hello Spring!: "I am finally feeling as though things are settling down a little bit. This has been an exceptionally busy spring and I am glad to say that ..."

Hello Spring!

I am finally feeling as though things are settling down a little bit. This has been an exceptionally busy spring and I am glad to say that I think we are getting a handle on things. Our vegetables are now officially certified organic and looking soooo beautiful. It has been a long journey since October when I first started growing them. This morning, while watering, I was reflecting on how scared I was that I was going to fail when I started the whole venture. Yet, I was so exstatic at how fabulous they all looked. I never could have done it without Tanya. She came to us at just the perfect time and helped me pull everything together. She has now become our official greenhouse manager and I am so happy to have her help. I do not know what I would have done without her the past couple of months, she is like my right arm. We communicate well and both are on the same page about what needs to happen in the nursery. It is nice to know that there is someone there to cover me in the areas that are lacking due to my awesome schedule! Which brings me to Suzanne and Anna, to rocking chicks that are successfully helping me run Flutterby Gardens Landscaping while working at NEON. These two lovely ladies keep the crew moving and the clients happy and again, I do not know what I would do without them. Anna is new to us this year and is going to be running  her own show with mowing, personal gardening, sprinkler work and tree pruning. She is a go getter and I have full confidence that she will take this position and run with it.

          

On Earth Day, in cooperation with, ICAN, a local non -profit I helped Washington Elementary School students plant a community garden that I had been planning with them over the last couple of months. This is a project that I have been doing for the Ada County Master Gardener program. It was so rewarding to walk them through the planning and planting of the square foot beds and to see our visions come to life when the children came and helped us to plant. They planted violas, potatoes, peas, rhubarb, spearmint and strawberries, as well as, planted seeds of beans, tomatoes and squash that they will put into the beds when they return in a month. Channels 2, 6 and 7 were there and they interviewed the kids. It was way too cute! I am super excited about this project and can not wait for the next phase.

On Saturday, in cooperation with Idaho's Bounty, NEON held our first annual Easter egg hunt! We all had a blast. The Easter bunny himslef even made a special appearance and took pictures with alll of the children and their families. I think that everyone had a great time. We should do it again next year! Thanks again to Idaho's Bounty for supplying the fresh eggs and to Bittercreek/Red Feather for boiling them.