One of many ways to improve the aesthetics of your outdoor home while providing a rewarding experience during the spring season is to start creating a home garden.
Different types of gardens can serve many purposes and provide opportunities to enhance the appearance of a person home with a variety of different types of plants.
From beautiful flower beds to small herb gardens and vegetable gardens, going outside and creating a different type of garden can be a beautiful and rewarding spring project.
A Potter County vendor, Kudirck’s Garden Center, offers a wide variety of garden furnishing products and helps serve the region from their locations in Coudersport and Emporium.
“We have all kinds of things for the garden,” said owner Kim Kudrick. “We have your bedding flowers, perennials and we have your vegetables and all kinds of hanging baskets. We have various paint mulches, rocks and all types of soil. Everything you could want for your outdoor gardening. “
Some of the most popular spring sellers at Kudrick’s range from hanging baskets for Mother’s Day to garden vegetables and herbs that have grown in popularity over the years.
“The staple foods for your vegetable garden are your tomatoes, pumpkins, and we also have a lot of specialties,” said Kudrick. “We have your really hot peppers, like ghost peppers…. We also get tomatoes in the heirloom. These are popular and anyone who is a skilled gardener would know the heirlooms are in demand. “
One of the main benefits of having your own vegetable or herb garden is knowing exactly what is going into your food.
From pesticides to unfamiliar soils used by wholesalers. Knowing exactly where your food comes from can give you peace of mind, while also being proud to grow and consume the foods you create.
“People who plant their gardens do it because they want to know what fertilizers are going into them. Organic horticulture is very popular now, ”said Kudrick. “More and more people are now also making canned goods.”
While vegetable and herb gardens offer more benefits than just creating food, gardening offers more benefits than just that.
Planting flower beds can improve the appearance of a home and enhance what some call “curb appeal.”
“It certainly contributes to the attractiveness of the curb,” said Kudrich. “Do the whole garden and then the satisfaction of how beautiful it looks. They know what you got out of your yard, or it can be helpful to put the food on your table. But there is satisfaction that you made and created it yourself. “
Another local supplier that sells all kinds of products to get you started in a spring garden is Mead’s Greenhouse in Mansfield, which has been in the Tioga County area for five years.
Owners, Taylor and Lacy Peppers, run a family business with their four children and have enjoyed serving their community and love working with the public and other local businesses.
“We have vegetables, we have annuals, perennials, ornamental trees and shrubs, and we also have fruit trees and fruit-bearing bushes like raspberries, blueberries and all that,” said Lacy Peppers.
For beginners, this list can look a little intimidating, but Peppers points out a key component for those looking to be successful when starting their spring garden.
“I think the biggest thing is the floor,” she had. “You want to make sure that your soil is good and you want to have the right soil. Mushroom soil is a great addition to your soil. “
Many people enjoy having the power to control what goes into their food grown in a personal garden, but can also take pride in seeing their end product in their front yard every day.
“I think it’s so rewarding to see what you can grow in your garden,” said Peppers. “And just to know what soil it’s grown in. You know there are no pesticides and you know what you’re eating.”
