Our Potter’s 72nd store is the motherland for all things peppers. With an enthusiastic group of home vegetable gardeners in the area, we tend to have lots of peppers and tomatoes on hand. For tomatoes, the best sellers are usually roma’s, tumblers, beefsteaks and cherries. For peppers, it’s hot, hot, hot! People love the super [...]

All our Potter’s stores stock potato and onion sets and people love them! Growing your own vegetables provides a great deal of satisfaction and in a world of too many people and depleting food sources, it seems like a smart thing to do. Come see all the tried and true varieties we have this year… [...]

Delicious… tantalizing… eversweet… yum! These are all words to describe fruit that you’ve grown in your own garden. You’ll be happy to know that Potter’s is chock full of fruit trees and other fruiting plants this year. Plums, pears, apples, cherries, strawberries, blueberries… mmmm! And if you’re lucky, you might even be able to get [...]

A dash of rosemary, a sprinkle of thyme, a pinch of parsley, a sackfull of sage… what? So I like sage!! And if you love herbs you’ll be happy to hear all the Potter’s stores have a nice variety of herbs in stock. Most herbs are hardy perennials too, so you don’t have to keep [...]

For those of you that own iPhones, there’s a really cool app out there called “Seasons”. It allows the user to see what fruits and vegetables are “in-season” at your local markets. It shows you when the local stuff is available and when the import stuff comes in. For example, you point on a map [...]

Homegrown tomatoes are the pride and splendour of the avid home gardener. There seems to be little in life more satisfying than growing your own delicious food and lucky for you tomato enthusiasts, Potter’s carries lots of varieties of tomato plants. Little ones, big ones, weird shapes and colours… we’ve got enough tomato plants to [...]

72nd has a nice selection of veggie starters in stock right now… especially tantalizing are those cool-weather crops that are good to be started right now. I’m talking about things like cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, spinach, raddichio, swiss chard, etc. For those who like your warm-weather veggies, such as peppers and tomatoes, we have [...]

While many would say Chuck and some might say Halle, my top three favourite berries go like this:   1) Blackberries 2) Pineapple 3) Raspberry   Yeah, yeah, I know pineapples aren’t technically a berry but I just changed the rules…and if you don’t like my pineapple pick, then change it to strawberries… score one [...]

I know that Chris wrote about this just a few days ago… but I have never seen so many vegetables and seeds go through our store in all my years here!  It must be the economy, everyone wants to grow their own food.  What a great idea!  Growing your own veggies is fun and rewarding.  [...]

Wow, what a season for vegetables! Late in the winter I had heard a prediction in the news that we would see an increase in people growing their own vegetables. Money isn’t as free-flowing in this recession as it was about a year ago and, on top of that, more and more people are getting choosier about what they [...]