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Issue No. 015 HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
| December 2011
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Greetings!
Merry Christmas Everyone! What an absolutely wonderful time of year. We are just bursting with Christmas Spirit and hope to share it with you. We have some lovely things that I just can't help but share with you. Advent calendars...If you have children, this is a must! I just hung ours for my boys and they just love getting candy out everyday. What a fun way to count the days until Christmas.
Tree Ornaments....we have the best little eco friendly felt ornaments. I saw some in the Sundance catalog for a whole lot more than Wyatt Farms is selling them for. What a deal!
Live Wreaths... Bring the fragrance of Christmas to your home with beautiful live wreaths and live mantle runners. Oh how gorgeous!
Poinsettias...Traditional, Beautiful, Christmas. Every home must have one for the Holidays. We have 3 sizes and colors to choose from.
Ok, the list goes on and on.... Christmas flags, Candles, Lanterns, Bulb kits, Snowmen salt and pepper shakers, Christmas Finger puppets, Christmas plates and platters!
Need even more of a reason to stop by.....how is 35% off Friday and Saturday, Dec 9 and 10. If that's not enough, Linda Hook will also be here on Saturday, Dec 10 from 10 to 11, to teach us how to create that perfect fresh greenery piece for the Holidays. Don't miss this workshop.
Merry Christmas to you all and We really appreciate your business.
Happy Gardening,
Bess
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2-DAY Merry Christmas SALE FOR OUR
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 AND SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 ALL DAY!
35% off of Everything at the
Garden Center & Nursery
sale does not include bulbs, pinestraw, potting soil, fertilizers, and pest control items.
Don't miss this opportunity to complete your Christmas Shopping! Find gifts for all of the special people on your list. Or purchase some shrubs or pansies to dress up your yard for the Holidays. We also have lovely poinsettias and live wreaths
to brighten the season. Oh, what fun!
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Wyatt Farms Workshop Series:
Creating Fresh Greenery Arrangements with Linda Hook Saturday, December 10, 2011 10:00 am to 11:00 
We love the look and fresh evergreen smell of natural arrangements to enliven the season. We are delighted to have the expertise and experience of Linda Hook, who will demonstrate the art of using live greenery to create beautiful seasonal arrangements. Learn where to find fresh materials and how to create and embellish holiday decor for your home.
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Landscape Design Services
Do you need some help in your yard? With the weather cooling down, it is the perfect time to plant. Let Wyatt Help you get started on your landscape project today.
Wyatt Farms is a full service Design, Install, and Maintenance company. We can help you come up with a landscape design for your yard that suits your family's needs. We use CAD programs so you can easily see the design on paper and many of the plants that we design with are right here in our nursery for you to see, touch and smell. We also have a professional installation and maintenance crew to help you create your landscape and keep it looking beautiful.
We carry a list of referrals that you can visit and see our work up close and personal.
Schedule an appointment with Wyatt soon to plan the garden you have always wanted.
864-227-8861'
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December Gardening
Clean up, clean up, clean up are the magical words for this month. Pests can overwinter in your garden debris so cut back the dying perennials and rake up any diseased leaves this month. This is one of the most important tasks you can do for pest control. Be sure to keep leaves off of your lawn, too. Even though it is dormant, leaving the leaves on the lawn can smother it.
This is the time to build healthy soil, and our soils need all the help they can get by adding organic matter. Healthy soil provides the foundation for healthy plants and encourages helpful soil-dwelling organisms, like earthworms. Allow fallen leaves to remain in garden beds, or add them as mulch to provide an extra layer of protection during winter weather. If you don't like the look of leaves as mulch, pull aside your nice mulch, add the leaves then bury them under the preferred mulch. Don't forget to mix leaves into vegetable garden soil, as well. No need to work the leaves in; just let them decompose on top of the soil like they do in nature. The leaves will break down and enrich existing soils, giving us a natural boost to next season's garden. Don't have leaves? Wyatt makes his own compost out of leaves, we call it 'Wyatt's Black Gold'. Come pick up a bag from the Garden shop.
Speaking of next season...the Winter Solstice on December 21 marks the end of fall and the beginning of winter. This is a perfect time to assess your yard and to start dreaming up plans for next year.
Voles vs Moles
Know how to tell the difference between Moles and Voles? First, know that Voles are Vegetarian and will eat roots and gnaw on tree and shrub bark. They will leave ridges on the surface of the soil but they don't leave small volcano like hills on the surface of your grass or flower bed like Moles do. You will notice golf ball size holes in your yard. Plants will shrivel up and die and will be easy to pull out because a lot of roots will be gone. Treatment for Voles is usually trapping but this will sometimes trap innocent wildlife too.
Moles are Meat eaters and feed on insects, grubs, earthworms, etc in the soil. The only damage to plants is when they tunnel and uproot or expose roots to the elements and they dry out. Moles can make a mess with the ridges on lawns and in flower beds but are good for grub control. Treatment for Moles is Milky Spore to kill the grubs they are looking for or Holy Moley repellent made with castor oil. Both products are found in our store.
Annuals Continue to deadhead those pansies and Snapdragons to keep them blooming. Annuals still need fertilizer between bouts of cold this month, and there are a variety of options to improve soil structure by adding nutrients and minerals. Pansies love Daniels fertilizer and we carry 5 different sizes. To keep Snapdragons looking good, pinch off those spent blooms and check the buds for caterpillars, the little tiny green ones. If you find them, apply BT before sun up or after sun down. This will prevent those little guys from eating your blooms. Stop by Wyatt Farms to get your bottle of BT.  | | Snapdragons |
Birds
Birds depend on natural seed sources or a plentiful birdfeeder as the temps become consistently chilly. Perennials like coneflower, heliopsis, and black-eyed Susan provide seedheads that offer valuable food for birds and add interest to the winter landscape. For these reasons, they are best left un-pruned until late winter. Find these favorites in the greenhouse at Wyatt Farms.
We also have a variety of hand-crafted and festive bird feeders and birdhouses in the Garden Shop. They make a great gift for the local birds, friends, or for your garden, and can be a fun addition to holiday decorations.
We carry the best seed mixtures to go with them: a traditional mix to attract a great variety of wild birds; thistle seed for wild finches; and a Cajun blend that has a little too much kick for the squirrels' taste.
Deer Repellent
If your deer are browsing your plants, try one of the various deer repellents we carry. One has a delightful minty fragrance and our customers swear by it.
Bulbs
We have gorgeous amaryllis and paperwhite bulbs and kits that make great gifts. We also have a variety of tulip, narcissus, crocus, and allium bulbs to plant now for a delightful show throughout the Spring. Cluster many bulbs in a given area or pot to make the greatest statement. Bulbs make wonderful, full container arrangements in addition to garden blooms.
Perennials and Shrubs
Perennials, shrubs, and roses do not need fertilizing this time of year. There is still time to dig, divide, and replant crowded perennials. Be sure to water before and after dividing. Take hardwood stem cuttings of evergreens such as boxwood, camellia, holly, and juniper and root them in a cool greenhouse or cold frame. We have rooting hormone in stock. Remember that heavy pruning should wait until late winter or spring to avoid damage to new growth.
Seeds Before the seed catalogs come in the mail, it is a good time to sit down with your leftover seed packets and throw out the ones that aren't likely to be viable. The best place to store them is in a ziplock freezer bag in the refrigerator crisper drawer. If you kept yours in the garage or shed and the temperatures got over 100 during the summer you might not have a very good germination rate. Always think of seeds as living things that can die from extreme exposures. Here is a breakdown of how long seeds will last under ideal conditions.
1 year or less: onions, parsley, parsnips 2 years: corn, okra, and peppers 3 years: beans, southern peas(cowpeas), and peas 4 years: beets, fennel, pumpkins, rutabagas, chard, tomatoes, turnips, carrots, mustard, and watermelon 5 years: brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, eggplant, cucumber, lettuce, radishes, and spinach
Houseplants Snuggle those houseplants together if you can. The air in your home is dryer with the heat on, so this will help them increase the humidity around them. Use poinsettias and Christmas cactus to brighten the season. Ours are gorgeous now, and we have three different sizes available.
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We hope you enjoy our newsletter as much as we enjoy doing it for you. If you have any topics you would like to read about or testimonials about us you would like to share please e-mail us at
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Sincerely,
Bess and Wyatt Thompson and Katherine Rowe
Wyatt Farms |
103 Wyatt Court
On Center Street Just North of Lakeview School
Greenwood, South Carolina 29649
www.wyattfarms.com
864-229-6252
wyattfarms@ymail.com
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New Winter Hours
Monday thru Friday 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturdays 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
CLOSED SUNDAYS
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