News from Bob's Market & Greenhouses, Inc.

Issue 12.19

May 10, 2012

Mother's Day Sale
Starts Today!
(Through Sunday, May 13th)

10 Inch Flowing Hanging Baskets
& Bedding Flats
2 for $25
Mix or Match
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4.5 Inch Potted Flowers
$3.19 each or $24 per Flat

Join us Saturday for
Drawings Every Hour, Free Snacks, and More!
(Events may vary by location.)

Foxglove Care

Foxglove bears tall, dramatic spikes of tubular flowers with speckled throats. Foxglove blooms in midsummer and adds elegance to a perennial border, woodland area, or shade garden.

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Bob's Market and Greenhouses, Inc. is proud to team up with HGTV, Agricola Management Group, and Dummen USA to bring you the HGTV Home Plant Collection. Being launched nationwide in 2013, Bob's Market is one of a just 375 retail locations across the US to take part in a May 2012 "soft launch".

The debut collection features mixed plant varieties in complementary color families that are matched in timing for balanced growth and consistent color. The annuals, mixed containers and hanging baskets are designed to perform well in gardens and outdoor living spaces.

"Expressions" includes four separate collections -- Confetti Craze, Friendly Fusions, Sassy Sweethearts and Big & Bold -- all of which are available as individual components in quarts, mixed together in gallons, and also decorative containers and hanging baskets.

Mother's Day Photo Contest

This Mother's Day take a photo with your mom (or with your child / children if youare a mom) at any of our Bob's Market locations and upload it to our Facebook page. We will then pick a winner at random from among the photos uploaded. Everyone's mom is perfect so it would be impossible for us to judge the photos! The randomly selected winner will receive a gift bag full of gardening goodies!

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May 2012

1st-2nd A Barren Period. Good For Killing Plant Pests, Cultivating, Or Taking A Short Vacation.

3rd-4th Excellent Time For Planting Corn, Beans, Peppers, And Other Aboveground Crops. Favorable For Sowing Hay, Fodder Crops, And Grains. Plant Flowers.

5th-7th Plant Carrots, Beets, Onions, Turnips, And Other Root Crops At This Time. Cabbage, Lettuce, And Other Leafy Vegetables Will Do Well. Planting Seedbeds. Good For Transplanting.

8th-9th Do No Planting.

10th-12th Plant Late Beets, Potatoes, Onions, Carrots, And Other Root Crops.

13th-14th Kill Plant Pests On These Barren Days.

15th-16th Favorable Time For Planting Late Root Crops. Also Good For Vine Crops That Can Be Planted Now. Set Strawberry Plants. Good Days For Transplanting.

17th-18th Poor Planting, Fine For Cultivating Or Spraying.

19th-20th Favorable Planting Days: First Day For Root Crops. Good Day For Transplanting. Last Day For Beans, Corn, Cotton, Tomatoes, Peppers, And Other Aboveground Crops.

21st-22nd Any Seed Planted Now Will Tend To Rot.

23rd-24th Most Favorable For Planting Corn, Cotton, Okra, Beans, Peppers, Eggplant, And Other Aboveground Crops. Plant Seedbeds And Flower Gardens.

25th-29th A Barren Period. Good For Killing Plant Pests, Cultivating, Or Taking A Short Vacation.

30th-31st Excellent Time For Planting Corn, Beans, Peppers, And Other Aboveground Crops. Favorable For Sowing Hay, Fodder Crops, And Grains. Good For Planting Flowers.

Uncle Jim's Almanac is based on the age-old method of using the moon as a planting guide. It can be applied to any region of the US where planting is favorable.

"Well done is better than well said."

-Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

Classic Pancakes

Dads this recipe is for you! With Mother's Day coming up there is nothing better for mom than breakfast in bed. Here is perhaps the most well-known breakfast recipe on earth. Just don't burn them!

Ingredients

-1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
-3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
-1 teaspoon salt
-1 tablespoon white sugar
-1 1/4 cups milk
-1 egg
-3 tablespoons butter, melted

Directions

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter; mix until smooth.

Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.