Boy, if you’re a fruit lover like me, you’ll want to come in to your nearest Potter’s and see what we have in stock for fruit plants. Most of our stores have nice stock of fruit trees, berry-producing shrubs such as blueberries and raspberries, strawberry plants and much, much more. Come in and see what [...]

Now’s a great time of year to spread mushroom manure around your garden beds. It’s a great soil conditioner plus gives nutrients to existing plants. All our stores carry mushroom, steer and chicken manure, so if poop is your game, Potter’s is in your league!! Come check out our smelly stuff.. your plants will literally [...]

Looking around my complex, it’s finally evident that Spring is putting her roots down. I thought I would share a few of the things happening around my own garden. Or should I call it… container city? More about that another time. Today it’s all about a few of the first Spring plants bursting forth. First [...]

Seed season is upon us and certainly our 72nd Potter’s store is excited. For whatever reason, our Newton location always is very popular with the seed-planting crowds. We carry a number of seed brands including Westcoast Seeds and Pacific Northwest Seeds. Starting plants from seed is a very satisfying way to grow plants as well [...]

Yes the rumors are true… we finally have Westcoast seeds in our stores now! To help you with all your seed questions they have a great website that is easy to use! www.westcoastseeds.com . They have it broken down into flowers, vegtables, and herbs then further again with season&zone, timing, starting and growing in specific items! Take [...]

Potters has Potatoes!  Grow your own food this year and plant some easy to grow potatoes.  We also have onions, shallots and asparagus plus lots more. New this year are the bag of mixed types of potatoes (you get to try a variety) and the veggie mix (mixed onions and potatoes in one bag).  See [...]

All Potters locations now carry West Coast Seeds.  This seed company has taken the “safe seed pledge” and they started in 1983 in Vancouver, British Columbia.  We like them because they are local and the seeds are non GMO. As a regional family seed company, West Coast Seed only sells untreated seeds. They specialize in HEIRLOOM, [...]

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 [...]