What a beautiful day!

The weather was perfect and the crowds were taking advantage of this beautiful day. We sold out of many items including zucchini bread, strawberry preserves, strawberry fig, home grown radishes and pepper jelly. No worries though, we will replenish our supplies this week and be ready to serve you Friday and Saturday. 

The Monticello Market on the Square opens Saturday morning, May 22nd. We really enjoy spending Saturday mornings with our market friends from Monticello.

Eat Local!!! 

Preorder for guaranteed availability via email gkosater@gmail.com- don't miss out!!

Great Market

 It was a great market Friday albeit a little brisk and breezy. Nonetheless, we enjoyed seeing our regular customers again and hearing about their exciting winter activities.

We introduced several new items Friday, such as cathead biscuits and strawberry preserves. Both were big sellers. In fact, we sold out of zucchini bread, pepper jelly, whole figs, strawberry preserves and pineapple jalapeno jelly. Remember you can always pre order early to guarantee your goodies.  Just email me during the week and we'll take care of your order.

Hope to see you again Friday!! Eat Local!

New Market season

 The Forsyth market opens Friday, May 7.

Backyard Garden Creations will be there bright and early with ample supplies of jams, jellies, pickles, seasoning salts and of course, zucchini bread. Check out the zucchini's growing now in the Backyard Gardens.

If you would like to preorder items, just reply to our email and we'll have everything ready for you.

Looking forward to seeing you again this season.

Eat Local!!

The planting has started

Even though it's only the last week of March, the weather has been almost ideal for Spring planting. Of course, we're aware of the dangers of planting too early, frosts or cooler weather, which is why we resist the urge to put  too many plants in the ground. That being said, we have planted several bucket crops of tomatoes and peppers, about 10% of what we will eventually plant.

We also planted several peppers in the ground  that were overwintered from last summer.  We also planted in the ground one of our healthier lemon trees that we started from seeds 3 years ago.

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Prepping for the Spring planting

We have been busier in recent days turning beds, planting seeds and just readying the Backyard Garden for planting in a few short weeks. Of course our winter crops of greens, broccoli and carrots have been abundant too. 

Check out the broccoli and carrots picked today.

Thanks for all the calls and emails this past winter ordering what we already have in stock.

We can't wait till we are back at the markets. Forsyth begins May 7 and Monticello on May 22.

February in the Backyard Garden

Even though the temperatures are cold and wet, we are still harvesting from the Backyard Garden. Collards, mustard greens, broccoli and check out these carrots picked today! Healthy eating for sure.

We are also planting many varieties of seeds and growing them in the greenhouse. On a sunny day, the temperature in the greenhouse ranges between 80-100 degrees. Definitely great growing weather. Can't wait for the warmer weather but this time of year is productive too.

December gardening

 We've had several frosts, several hard frosts, temperatures in the mid 20's and we are still picking peppers. The greenhouse has certainly allowed us to extend the growing season. I wish now that we would have built it bigger.  We have 15 or so pepper plants growing in buckets, along with newly planted lettuce and spinach and 8 lemon plants we started from seeds 3 years ago. I'm looking forward to starting more seeds soon.

We also appreciate those of you who have continued to reach out to us this winter. Just email me and we can set you up with your favorite jams and jellies.

Stay Safe!!