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Brambleberry Eco-grown Nursery Stock
Over the past six years, we have raised a multitude of fruit and berry plants to fruition with only organic practices. We selectively plant out only disease-resistant cultivars and species to boost our chances at overcoming many disease and pest pressures in our humid Midwest climate. What we offer for sale are mostly the plants we’ve had on-the-ground success with, but also ones we believe have good potential to be grown successfully without the use of synthetic sprays.
As ecological farmers, we feel very strongly about the importance of living soils. We grow our plants in potting mix containing a high volume of live compost made by hand on our farm. The only additives are alfalfa meal, kelp meal, bone meal, wood ashes, coir (coconut husk fibers), river sand, and sometimes (though we want to minimize the use of these since they are mined products rather than by-products like the former) rock phosphate, greensand, perlite, vermiculte, peat moss. We believe that these plants are much healthier, happier, and less prone to insect, disease, and drought pressures as a result of their living soil. In addition, they will inoculate your own soils wherever you plant them with beneficial microorganisms and fungi!
Follow the link buttons below to find the plants and varieties we plan to have available for sale throughout the 2010 growing season. Many plants will not be available for purchase until late May. However, since they are potted plants, they may be successfully planted at any time of the year unlike bareroot stock. We still recommend planting earlier summer and later fall, especially if you have hot, dry summers
Most stock is young, current year rooted cuttings and grafted one-year rootstocks. Some that are left from last year will be one-year+ plants. Note that we will only sell plants which we feel are vigorous and very likely to succeed.
Pricing: 4“ pots $6.00; gallon pots $12.00; grafted varieties $16.00 Quantity discounts: $10 off orders $100-200; $30 off $200-300 Call for larger discounts for larger orders. If you have large project requiring dozens of plants for a more affordable price, contact us and we can possibly custom raise smaller plug-type stock for lower prices.
Ordering: Please either call us at 812-723-5259 or email us (see bottom of page) to place an order. We will return your call or email promptly. Note that we will not be shipping plants in 2010 (see below). For now, orders will be pick-up only, we can bring them to the Orleans, IN Farmers Market, or we can DELIVER for a fee to our general region (group orders will be charged the same rate so you can save delivery fees this way).
Shipping: After seeing how much local response we had to plant sales last year, we will NOT BE SHIPPING plants except for special cases for the 2010 season. We were not able to work out a good system to safely ship our potted plants and until we do, it is not worth our time to trouble with this. However, we are inspected and certified as a nursery and thus are legally able to ship plants—so if you just have to have something we have, please check with us and we may be able to work something out with you. We are going to be offering bareroot plants starting this fall, and plan on being able to ship these much more easily. Watch the website for more updates on bareroot plants. Depending on the sales this season, we may decide to better figure out shipping for potted plants and offer shipping on them next year.
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