Alfred H Krautter

It is a crime to place our vegetable wastes into the garbage cans for incinerating along with the rest of our trash. By doing so we are going against Nature. Everything from the earth needs to go back into the […]

Re-building at Sprainbrook Nursery

GARDEN CALENDAR

Read our weekly emails and try to follow our recommendations as we guide you through this year. Our timing steps are in chronological order and should […]

By Al Krautter

Most greenhouse operations have been taught to use peat-lite mixes shipped to them in bags to grow their plants. This is followed with recommendations of steady applications of chemical […]

By Al Krautter

It is important that you turn your whole yard to an organic approach because having only portions of your yard organic doesn’t work. My biggest fear is that many organic gardeners follow o […]

By Al Krautter

This past fall I harvested 50 plus years of leaf mold that I composted in beds in the back fields of our Nursery in Westchester, NY. It was my father’s love for leaf mold that led us to a u […]

OUR ORGANIC SOIL

I know once again I will be able to grow the best annuals in Westchester because I am growing them in a rich, organic soil. I know the rizosphere in each little pot of my soil is rich in […]

This Saturday I will be lecturing in Eastchester at 10:00am on the Organic Vegetable Garden. The event is taking place at Eastchester Town Hall 40 Mill road off of route 22. It is 9:00pm Tuesday April 22 […]

IT IS TIME TO MULCH

The topic I want to discuss this week is “mulching”.  I did want to let you know that as temperatures dipped into the 20s, and our greenhouses our compost system worked keeping night […]

As the snow melts off your lawn and your shrubs shed the layer of ice that constantly coated their leave, it is sad to see the results of a harsh winter.  In many instances the lack of sunlight for such a l […]

We have undergone one of the most depressing winters I can remember. The snow melted just as another arctic blast coated the ground with more snow. Black ice threatened our driveways, walks, and parking […]

This will be my 5th and last article on growing food on your property. Anyone who owns a piece of our valuable earth has the ability to grow their own nutritious food which is healthier than what can be bought […]

The Herb Garden should be an important part of any overall garden plan. Herbs have many uses but the two main uses I like are for culinary use and medicinal purposes.  The Herb Garden should be located in an […]

The success of the Vegetable garden depends on the maintenance and care it gets throughout the year. Plants don’t just grow they are grown. You or somebody else has to be the care taker.  This requires hands on […]

GARDEN  CALENDAR

It has been a cold winter filled with lots of snow. We are more than half way through it and we all long for spring. Spring is one of the most beautiful times of the year for us who live i […]

An important phase of planning your spring garden is the selection of the vegetables you plan to grow.  Many buy starter plants to plant in their garden. There is a distinct advantage to this as you have a well […]

I am of the strong belief that the Vegetable Garden should become part of every homeowner’s property.   I was not always of this belief as I used to think it would be cheaper and easier to go down to the nea […]

During the next two months I will help you through the planning stages of your 2014 gardening year. Each week’s email will address a new subject.  Tor and I are working hard over the winter months to build an or […]

We will be closed during the months of January and February and will open again in early March. A rather interesting experiment is taking place in my greenhouses this winter. Every other bench I have packed […]