Our 2021 tomato, pepper, and eggplant sale presale has started. We also have other veggies and herbs for pre-sale as well as soil, fertilizers and supplies. You will be picking up your pre-order at our retail location, located at 5311 Scots Valley Drive in Scotts Valley, CA. We will be open for pre-order pickup customers ONLY from Saturday, March 20, 2021 through Friday, March 26, 2021. You will need an appointment to pick up your plants and must do so between March 20 and March 26. We will send you a link to the appointment site once you have placed an order. Walk-ins are not allowed during this pre-sale pick up time period. If you are unable to pick up your pre-order during that time period, send someone else, or simply do not pre-order and just come into the nursery beginning March 27. We get fresh new stock each week, and should have an excellent selection all the way through mid June.
Our plants are either in 3" pots, or in six-packs. If it isn't designated as a six-pack, it'll be in a 3" small pot. You'll be coming into the greenhouse, wearing a mask, and choosing your own plants based on your printed-out-at-home detailed receipt. Best to bring a box or wagon to take your order home in. Please only one member of your household, to reduce crowding in the greenhouses, and no pets.
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PLANTING BUNDLE Includes: 1x 4-6-3 Fertilizer, 1x Bone Meal, 1x Fish Meal, 1x Worm Castings, and 4x Mykos. Enough for 12 tomato plants following our recommendations (for peppers and eggplants use half as much). Check out our instructions for how we plant a tomato. This bundle saves you $13! |
TOMATO, VEGETABLE, AND HERB FERTILIZER $11.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
MYKOS $4.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
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BONE MEAL Bone Meal is an excellent amendment for many crops, as it boosts harvest yields and prevents blossom end rot (that black patch on the bottom of tomatoes). Add half a cup per tomato plant in the ground, or one full cup to a pot. 4-pound bag equals about 6 cups. |
FISH MEAL If you use our planting hole recipe, you know that we say to pop a whole fish head into the bottom of a two-foot deep hole. Well, if you can't find one, or are growing in a pot, or can't dig a two-foot deep hole, then Fish Meal is a good substitute. Add half a cup per tomato plant in the ground, or one full cup to a pot. 3-pound bag equals about 6 cups. |
WORM CASTINGS $9.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
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HARVEST SUPREME COMPOST $12.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
ORGANIC POTTING SOIL 100% organic potting soil. Contains great drainage capabilities, as well as proper water retention. Do not use this to fill up garden beds. This is for pots. Use Raised Bed Mix to fill beds. (Due to unprecedented worldwide demand for gardening products, we may have to sub something similarly fabulous for you upon pick up in March). |
20 GALLON GEOPOT $13.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
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TOMATO BOMB $4.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
EB STONE RAISED BED MIX Our choice to fill new garden beds. Will also perform well in a pot. One bag (3 cubic feet) will fill a 20-gallon Geopot (be sure to add two Tomato Bombs per 20-gallon pot). To figure out how many cubic feet you'll need for a raised bed, use an online landscape calculator inputting your bed dimensions. In garden beds, add Harvest Supreme, worm castings, and fertilizers to get going. Email us at loveapplefarm@gmail.com to ask us how much for your personal space. (3 cubic feet) |
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SLUGGO PLUS $17.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
HARVEST GUARD: FLOATING ROW COVER Protect young plants from light frosts, some pests, and birds using this light-weight sheet. Allows sun, air, and water to penetrate through. We also use this on all our directly-sown seed beds. 10' x 30' sheet. |
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PYRETHRIN Active ingredient: Pyrethrin (aka pyrethrum). Organic control for aphids, cucumber beetles, thrips, and many more non-wormy pests. For wormy pests, use Spinosad. Mix and apply using a sprayer such as our 2-gallon Chapin or 1.5-liter hand-pump sprayer. 1 pt. container. |
SPINOSAD Active ingredient: Spinosad. Organic control for tomato hornworm, tomato fruitworm, cabbage loopers, thrips, leafminers, spider mites, mosquitoes, ants, fruit flies and many others. Mix and apply using a sprayer such as our 2-gallon Chapin or 1.5-liter hand-pump sprayer. 1 pt. container. |
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3-PRONG WEEDING TOOL
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DRAMM HOSE NOZZLE Our preferred watering nozzle. We like the pattern and flow that these fan nozzles provide. Plastic ones break too easily, so we only offer the metal kind. Choose the color you want from available stock upon pick up. |
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SEEDLING HEAT MAT Starting seeds is a lot more productive and faster with this heat mat. Don't use a heating pad from the drugstore. Those aren't waterproof and they heat too much, killing the seeds. Use a proper, gardening heat mat indoors or out, as of course, ours are waterproof.$18.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
TEA BUBBLER To take your worm casting tea to an "11," use a bubbler to infuse it with oxygen and get the microbial life flowing! We add a T of molasses along with our 2/3 cup of pure worm castings in a 5-gal pail of water. Drop in the bubbler and let it do its magic for 24. Then strain, pour into a 2-gallon sprayer, and give your plants so much love, they'll cancel their Tinder accounts. |
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2-GALLON GARDEN SPRAYER $28.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
QUART GARDEN SPRAYER For those of you who mistakenly think that they don't need a 2-gallon sprayer, these smaller sprayers will be your interim sprayer until you accept the reality of needing the larger one. This is not a typical spray bottle; it uses a hand-pumped air-pressure system (just like its big brother, the Chapin sprayer) to spray organic pesticides, worm casting tea, or just use it to squirt your buddies around the pool on a 100-degree day. 1.5 liter (about 50 ounces) |
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BAMBOO STAKES $8.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
SMALL TOMATO CAGE We call these "wimpy" tomato cages. Not great for tomatoes, but excellent for peppers, eggplants, bush beans and bush peas. We do give our tomatoes one of these, but only to buy us some time before committing to putting the large, 7' cage over both the plant and the small conical cage, leaving it there to help center the tomato inside the proper, strong cage. |
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GOPHER CINCH TRAP $18.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
SOIL MOIST If you are growing in a container or a smallish wooden box, this is a fantastic product to reduce watering frequency. These benign crystals swell with water and release it when the soil starts to dry out. 8 oz. bag will treat a lot of pots. |
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SEASON-LONG INSECT PREVENTATIVE Fruit Tree and Vegetable Systemic Soil Drench is a concentrated insecticide applied to soil to combat aphids, cucumber beetles, leafhoppers, thrips, whiteflies, Colorado potato beetles, flea beetles, Japanese beetles, mealy bugs, scales, and other insects. For use on citrus, apple, peach, and plum trees, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, melons, cucumbers, herbs, and some berries. Mix with water and apply to soil near base of plant. One treatment will last an entire season. (Due to unprecedented worldwide demand for gardening products, we may have to sub something similarly fabulous for you upon pick up in March). |
BONIDE FUNG-ONIL FUNGICIDE |
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TURN-KEY FULLY PLANTED GEOPOT $74.99 Pick up only (no shipping) |
LIQUID FERTILIZER - 1 GALLON One-gallon size of our favorite organic liquid all-purpose fertilizer. If you know the value of a good, consistent fertilizer regimen, and you don't want to fuss with worm casting tea, this is your product! NPK=4-6-3 |
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If you are in a high-risk group, we can fill your order while you wait in the car. Simply text us (don't call since we may be too busy to pick up) at 831-588-3801 AND 831-278-1048 to tell us your name, appointment time, where you are parked, and what kind of car you have. If you pop your trunk open, we can even place the order in the back of your car without even saying howdy doo. We will wave, though.
We look forward to helping you have a fantastic vegetable garden this year. Consider a gardening class to sharpen your skills. We are continuing to hold these small-size classes either in our new larger classroom or outside using social distancing and lots of disinfecting.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at loveapplefarms@gmail.com or text us (for fastest service) at 831-588-3801.