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Peppers! Get Your Red Hot Peppers!

Chris — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:52:18 +0000

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 hot ones here. Varieties like cayenne, super cayenne, chili, serrano, jalapeno and the most feared of all, the orange habanero. If you’re into home vegetable gardening I hope you’ll come visit us and see our bountiful selection on hand.

Potatoes n Onions

Chris — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:26:54 +0000

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… red onions, yellow onions, red potatoes, white potatoes… lots to choose from! Yum!

Fruit Trees et al

Chris — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:12:52 +0000

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 your hands on one of the coveted “fruit salad” trees… which have a few different fruits all grafted on to one tree. I’m not kidding… it’s actually true! Come see!

Herbs @ Potter’s!

Chris — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:07:09 +0000

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 planting most of them every year… except basil.. which is pretty darn tender. Come and see what we’ve got… your spice rack will be full in no time!

Veggie Season, Techno-Style!

Chris — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:31:14 +0000

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 where you’re located (Pacific Northwest) and then you scroll down to “blackberries” and BAMMO, it tells you the months local blackberries are available in the markets and also when you can get imported blackberries. How awesome is that? You can read more about it here: http://www.seasonsapp.com/

To-ma-toes

Chris — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:38:36 +0000

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 make a veggie lover blush with glee. So come in soon and grab some tommy plants… then, later on, enjoy the fruits of your own labour!

Veggie Overload!

Chris — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:34:44 +0000

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 seeds that can be started indoors and put out when the weather warms up. So hurry in if you want to get a jump-start on that home-grown veggie garden… nothing tastes as good veggies you grow yourself!

My Favourite Berry

Chris — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:02:45 +0000

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 for the 152nd store!!

Recession Busters

Holly — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:30:16 +0000

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. My favourite is carrots. A few years ago I forgot that I even planted any carrot seeds and was wondering what was poking up in my garden. Behold! Enough carrots to feed an army! Herbs also seem to be a big hit this year. I think people are staying at home and enjoying their backyards and doing some BBQing. Fresh herbs are a great way to spruce up a meal. We have lots of veggie started packs, fresh potted herbs and multiple racks of seeds to choose from. Come on down and check out whats for dinner!

Vegetable Season

Chris — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:38:33 +0000

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 eat… and if they can grow it organically themselves without pesticides, all the better. It turns out these winter predictions were correct and we’ve seen quite an increase in consumers inquiring about and purchasing vegetable plants. So in one sense, I guess local garden centres are contributing to a healthier Canada… hooray!!