Baby trees all dressed up in natural burlap with an Earth Day green ribbon. One of our customers will be super eco-conscious by presenting treelings in recycled brown paper bags, stamped with a logo and message (Hint – It’s a school!).
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Tree Seedlings for Earth Day
Earth Day April 22, 2013
Gail selects White Pine seedlings for a waiting customer
2013 Wedding Season – Tree Seedling Favours
We’re swamped! April looks to be a really busy order month. Earth Day, spring weddings, and a Christening, all great reasons to plant a memory, plant a tree. Also getting the beginnings of landscaping orders. Yikes.
Wrapping a tiny red spruce tree for presentation .. burlap and raffia is a perennial favourite
Spring Yard Sales
Spring is busting out early this year, so we’ll be holding yard sales at the Trail Stop every Sunny Sunday from 8:00 a.m. ’til 3:00 – weather permitting.
“If it’s rain or snow, we won’t go”!” For table information, please call 347-2602
6:00 AM at the Trail Stop – A Hint of Autumn
It’s almost August on the Eastern Shore and the nights are getting cooler. This morning is misty and warm, still too early for blackflies. I finish my coffee and take the camera to explore the newly mowed ‘sunken garden’ in front of the Trail Stop.
The small oval basin that divides Highway 7 and Parkers Loop Road isn’t really a garden, except in my imagination when I read gardening catalogues in February. In fact, it’s not ours at all. It belongs to the Department of Highways.
I expect beautifying this loop road meridian is low on the work schedule for the highway crews, so we try to keep it groomed. This year, we agreed not to mow it until the daisies were gone.
like was given free rein to grow without check
Around the Trail Stop, just east of Moser River Bridge, we have post-poned mowing until the daisies
Here and there, maple leaves are turning red, hinting of Autumn.
Fall advertising fills our mailboxes. “Don’t run out of pellets this winter. Buy now!” “Fall Renovation Sale” and “Back to School Blowout”.
Yet, it’s still mid-summer and the wild flowers, mostly whites, yellows and shades of purple replace the fading daisies that grew so profusely this year. Pink and white primroses ramble along the shoulders of Highway 7, outlasting the magnificent show of wild lupins beloved by tourists.
Purple Vetch and Scotch thistle has sprung to life near the Trail Stop on one side of the ‘sunken garden’.
On its eastern edge at the middle entrance to Parker’s Loop Road and the Trail Stop, Arthur Turner’s “Moser River Salmon” still guards the entrance, a remnant of the Stone Soup Festival’s chainsaw carving contests.
Like most projects here, the sunken sculpture garden project waits. A few more dollars, a few less other urgent tasks and a whole lot more free time could make it happen.
Plant a Tree for Earth Day – Trail Stop
This year’s tree seedlings are ready to go for anyone on the Shore who wants to plant a tree for Earth Day. $1.
The little Red Pines are really attractive, but what I like the most is that the Red Pine is indigenous to Nova Scotia, but not seen that often anymore.
Planting Red Pine seedlings is helping to restore it along the Eastern Shore. Pictures soon.
Seedy Saturday Shaping Up
Seedy Saturday
Garden Swap Meet
Buy and sell, barter or swap your surplus seed, bulbs, plants, garden tools and equipment with other Eastern Shore EAST gardeners.
Join us at the Trail Stop in Moser River, just east of the bridge on Saturday, April 18th between 9:00 and 2:00. Hot drinks and munchies, courtesy of the Trail Stop.
For FREE table information, call Gail at 347-2602. We’ll have a few tables available, but if you can bring one, that helps a lot. Other ‘spring’ stuff, like bicycles, etc? Why not? It’s an opportunity to say hello to your neighbours after a long miserable winter.
If it’s a sunny and warm day, we’ll have the ice cream stand going and of course, fresh farm eggs in any weather! These sell out fast, so speak quickly for them.
Snow/rain/hail location: The “Stone Soup Cafe” on the hill @ 35 Parkers Loop Road, better known the “Shellnut Property” or “The Prospector’s”.
The house is visible as you cross the Moser River Bridge, heading east.
Gardeners’ Gathering, April 18th
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- Take a break at the Trail Stop!
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- Trail Stop Country Market, Moser River
Seedy Saturday! Barter, swap or sell your surplus seeds, bulbs & plants, garden tools & equipment on Seedy Saturday, April 18th, 10:00 am ’til 2 pm.
We’re having a get together with other local gardeners to share seeds, bulbs and information – we’re interested in and experimenting with extending the growing season and growing various grains for seed.
Free table space for your gardening stuff! Call Gail 347-2602.
Munchies, courtesy of the Trail Stop
Trail Stop Stuff Available Now
House Plants
Bedding Plants Available Mid-May!
How about you? Nothing to trade or sell? Come anyway!
Trail Stop Country Market
1/2 Way Pit Stop
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