Summertime gardening involves taking action and getting dirt under your fingernails! It’s time to put your worries, doubts, and limiting beliefs BEHIND you and start moving, in a positive direction, toward your gardening goals. Plant now! Think of where you will be this Fall or next year. Yum, you’ll be eating handfuls and bowlfuls of fresh organic fruit! 

Let’s consider a few questions.  

1. What can you plant now that will positively impact your family’s nutrition and your food budget?  
2. What foods are rich in antioxidants and cheaper to grow than to buy at the store especially if you want organic produce?  
3. Which plants can you stick in the ground and harvest for years with little effort and maintenance, and zero chemicals?

BERRIES!!

How would you like to grow a berry patch for the kids, or have a plethora of organic berries for yogurts, jams, pies, and smoothies? This may be the year to consider a Backyard Berry Patch. If you plan it out, you can plant a variety of berries and extend your organic berry harvest from early summer well into fall. 

There are so many rewarding options. Consider a blueberry patch to grow plump perfectly ripe organic blueberries year after year. Honeyberries taste like blueberries but can grow in a wide range of soils. Currants and gooseberries can benefit from partial shade. Elderberries and Aronia berries can produce immune-boosting berries for producing medicinal syrups. Strawberries can be grown pretty much anywhere as an edible ground cover. Seaberries are not only a nitrogen fixer but they produce deep orange berries that are vitamin C rich and considered a superfood in Russia and Eastern Europe.

And what about BLACKBERRIES AND RASPBERRIES?  Oh how wonderful, delicate, plump, and juicy these fruits can be when fresh from the garden, yet so variable in quality and expensive to buy at the store. These cane fruits love our slightly acidic soils and can be grown with ease. 

Few things can match the joy of wandering through the raspberry patch, searching out the plump jewels of ripe yellow and red, grazing through the patch popping berry after berry into your mouth, and savoring that surprising burst of sweet and tart of the perfect raspberry. 

Bear Creek Organics carries a wide variety of berry plants well suited for our area. They also carry fruit trees nut trees, native flowers, and more. 

Visit the Bear Creek Organics Nursery!

A fully-stocked nursery for your edible landscaping dreams. The most unique fruit trees, nut trees, and berry plants, along with beautiful native flowers, are selected for low maintenance and success in our local area.

Open Monday – Friday 9 am-6 pm (Weekends by appointment). 

Please call or email if you are coming. 

Location: 76 Helmer Ln, White Haven, PA, 18661

Phone: 570-582-0615 Email: [email protected] 

Web: bearcreekorganics.com Facebook: facebook.com/bearcreekorganics