Grow More Good with the Wedge
Join us for our 18th Annual Garden Sale! Celebrate summer with locally-grown, organic plant starters from Twin Organics and Humble Pie Farm. Find herbs, veggies, flowers, potting soil, and everything you need to get growing this season. No trip to the garden center needed! Available in-store May 1-31, while supplies last.
Meet your farmers, and read their insider gardening tips to help you have the best growing season yet!
Meet Your Growers
Expert Gardening Tips
Twin Organics
- Almost all vegetables and herbs love sunlight, the more the better! Locating taller plants to the north side of your garden will result in less shading of your shorter plants.
- Try to avoid expensive commercial potting soils and compost. Buy from a trusted, local source. (Wedge recommends locally-produced Cowsmo Organic Compost)
- To avoid overcrowding, at least a foot in each direction is a good starting point for a lot of plants. Even if you only have a small space, crowding plants will likely result in each plant performing poorly. The bigger the plant gets, the more space it needs at planting time to achieve a good yield.
Humble Pie Farm
- Urban gardeners can grow greens, lettuce, peppers, herbs, and flowers really well in containers. Tomatoes and cucumbers work too– but you will need a big pot! Our best advice is to use organic fertilizer as the plants get bigger, and water really well, at least twice a day.
- Flowers and flowering herbs, like mint and basil, attract lots of pollinators! We grow zinnias and tithonia and the butterflies and bees love them. For shadier areas, we grow impatiens and coleus, which make a lovely shade-loving pot.
- Many people water their plants way too little, then wonder why they don’t grow. Sing “Happy Birthday” to the plant while you’re watering it to ensure it’s getting enough.
Ask a Master Gardener
Master Gardeners from the University of Minnesota Extension will be tabling at both store locations to answer any of your gardening-related questions!
Sunday, May 10 and Sunday, May 17 from 10am to 2pm
The U of M Extension Master Gardener Volunteer program started in 1977 with its first class of 25 people, and has since grown to include over 3,100 active master gardeners who share horticultural expertise in almost every county in the State of Minnesota. Their mission is to share research-based horticultural knowledge and practices, cultivate diverse collaborations, support project-based volunteer activities, and inspire change to promote healthy people, healthy communities, and a healthy planet.
