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Do you want to grow organic vegetables and herbs, but lack the warm spacious environment of a greenhouse in which to start your seeds? Is the basement window too small to kick start your soil temp and germinate your peppers? Are you looking for organic transplants for your kitchen garden, but the local nursery features only hybrids, grown with chemicals?
I found a new nursery a couple of weeks ago while attending the Georgia Organics Annual Conference, held this year in lovely Douglas, GA. Youngs Mill Farm is located in Kingston, GA, northwest of Atlanta, and they are a new operation specializing in seed-starting for organic farmers/market gardeners. You can order seed from your desired source and have it direct-shipped to Youngs Mill. They will start it for you and then send you the plug trays with your seeds, already grown to healthy seedlings and ready for you to set out.
They also have a few "off the shelf" varieties of heirlooms that are tried and true favorites. Since the link I've tried to embed won't work, you can look them up on the Web at www.youngsmillfarm.com and see if their seedlings and services might work for you.
Mike and I have also ordered organic transplants from a great company in eastern Alabama called The Tasteful Garden (www.tastefulgarden.com). Strong healthy plants ready to set outside, and the varieties they offer are some of the same ones you've read in the seed catalogs and wanted to try yourself.
Whether you are doing it all yourself this spring or in need of some help, I hope you are enjoying the arrival of spring and the anticipation of growing vegetables at home for those you love. Don't be afraid (or too proud!) to ask for help, or look to these professionals to add variety to your garden.
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Denise Burns is the wife of Mike and the mother of Cooper, William and Eston. Their family farm website is Burns Best Farm dot com and she blogs here at Homestead Blogger at a blog by the same name. Her tomato plants look good, and the lettuce and spinach are plugging right along. Verdict is still out on the potatoes, though.
