May 2023 marks 38 years in business for us here at Bald Mountain Nursery. My parents, Richard and Cecilia Rice started the business in 1985. Richard Rice (Dad) passed away in 2005. Cecilia Rice (Mom) passed away in 2021. I started in the business in 1992 and
We have a large selection of vegetable starts and more coming on in our greenhouse, plus regular deliveries, so we will have a good selection of vegetables for the planting season. As the season goes on the selection gets better. Don’t plant too early. Wait until the nighttime temperatures are consistently 50 degrees, or close to it. The ground needs to be warm…
It’s been a nice wet winter this year which we needed. Looks like it will continue a bit longer as far as the long range forecast shows. It will stop soon though, and then we will be into a very nice spring. Wildflower blooms should be great this year, and water from a good wet winter.
The selection of bare root fruit trees is still very good. With the wet start of the year, which translated into a slow start of the bare root sales, the inventory is still excellent. The cold nights and cool days are ideal for the bare root trees, and now is the time to plant them. At the end of the month we pot up what has not been sold bare root and then the price goes up. Take advantage of bare root prices and selection and get your fruit trees in now.
We have our fruit trees in stock now and are selling briskly. Bare root shade trees will be in within a couple of weeks and a few more miscellaneous fruit trees. Blueberries, cane berries, figs, and pomegranates in pots are in as well.
Fall feels like it is here. The nights are nice and cool and the days very comfortable. We had an inch of rain this week and more on the way for next week. The ground is moist. It is the best planting time of all the seasons. I know I sound like a broken record but I can’t emphasize enough that fall is the ideal time for planting trees and shrubs. The diagram above shows very well why. The diagram shows a tree but the same logic applies to shrubs. FALL IS THE BEST TIME FOR PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS. Take advantage of the beautiful weather we are having and do fall planting. Your fall installed plants will do much better next summer than those planted in the spring. Plant wildflower seeds this month as well. Sow them right before a rain and they will take hold and next spring will be beautiful blooms.
Birch, European White – $49.00, 5 gallon Catalpa – $49.00, 5 gallon Cedar, Deodara – $35.00, 5 gallon, $79.00, 15 gallon, $225.00, 24″ Box Cedar, Incense- $35.00, 5 gallon Coast Redwood, Aptos Blue – $35.00, 5 gallon Cypress, Arizona – $35.00, 5 gallon Cypress, Leylandii – $35.00, 5 gallon Crape Myrtle, Dynamite – $49.00, 5 gallon Crape Myrtle, Muskogee – $49.00, 5 gallon Crape Myrtle, Natchez – $49.00, 5 gallon Crape Myrtle, Red Rocket – $49.00, 5 gallon Crape Myrtle, Tuscarora – $49.00, 5 gallon Flowering Cherry, Kwanzan – $85.00, 15 gallon Flowering Cherry, Mount Fuji – $85.00, 15 gallon Flowering Cherry, Weeping Double Pink – $95.00 15 gallon Flowering Plum, Krauter Vesuvius – $49.00, 5 gal., $79.00, 15 gal., $195.00 24″ Bx. Flowering Plum, Dwf. Purple Pony – $49.00, 5 gal., $79.00, 15 gal, $195.00 24″ Bx. Japanese Maple, Bloodgood – $145.00, 15 gallon, $295.00 24# Box Japanese Maple, Coral Bark – $295.00 24″ Box Liquidambar styraciflua – $7.95, 1 gallon, $35.00, 5 gallon, $79.00, 15 gallon Magnolia grandiflora – $7.95, 1 gallon, $49.00, 5 gallon, $79.00 15 gallon Maple, Autumn Fantasy – $79.00, 15 gallon, $225, 24″ Box Maple, Autumn Blaze – $79.00, 15 gallon, Maple, Red October …
We are having some nice fall weather now. Cooling down this week. The long range forecast calls for a pattern change and rain maybe next weekend. FALL IS THE BEST TIME OF YEAR FOR PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS Our BARE ROOT FRUIT TREE LIST FOR JANUARY 2023 is now available. We have copies available at the nursery or I can email you a list upon request. Fall fertilizing should be done now or very soon. If you have not done your fall fertilizing yet you should do it as soon as possible. This fertilizing is important because it gives plants a good boost and also gives them stored food for winter. Next spring they will use that stored food for growth as soon as the weather warms. A balanced fertilizer is good for almost everything in the landscape. Citrus trees would like a citrus fertilizer and this should be the last application for them for the season. Don’t feed them in the winter. Rhododendrons and azaleas should not be fertilized now unless it is with a bloom fertilizer. This will help give more blooms next spring. The same could be used on Dogwoods if you have one that does not …
June started off with nice moderate temperatures and an inch of rain this past weekend here at the nursery. Now we get a couple of days of heat and then cool back down to the seasonal temperatures for June. Next week is upper 80’s to low 90’s for highs and nice cool overnight temperatures. Great time of the year to get out early and do gardening and planting. Water things well and then let them go through the rest of the day. Mulch new plantings well and water enough so that they stay moist but not soaked. WATERING It’s time to pay close attention to watering. Deep soaking and watering early are the best practices. When watering trees, be sure to give established trees a deep soak once or twice a week depending on temperatures. Newly planted trees should be watered daily for the first week or so then cut back to about two or three times per week. Do not give short daily watering. Give good deep soaks. A good rule to use is to give 10 gallons of water per week for every inch of trunk diameter and be sure to soak to a depth of at least …
AVOCADO TREES ARE NOW IN!! We just received Avocado Trees. Bacon – Type B Zutano – Type B Lamb Haas – Type A Avocado trees are semi self fruitful. So one tree will give you fruit. If you plant a type A, and a Type B together, you will get larger crops of fruit. Avocados need good drainage for best performance. Amend the soil liberally to give rich well drained soil. Protect from extreme heat and from frost, particularly when they are young. All trees are $46.00 each.
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