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Q: What organic products do you carry?
A: We carry:

• Fertilizers from Dr. Earth, E. B. Stone, Down to Earth, Grow More, Whitney Farms, and others. All-purpose fertilizer or blends tailored for lawns, transplants, roses, rhododendrons, vegetables, & more. Single ingredient granular fertilizers include: alfalfa, kelp, fish, cottonseed, neem seed, bone, fish bone, feather, and blood meal; oyster shell, gypsum, guano, chicken manure, rock phosphate, greensand, Epsom salts, granulated sulfur, azomite, and Sul-Po-Mag. Liquid fertilizers include kelp, fish, bone, micronutrients, calcium, and blends.

• Plant growth stimulants and soil conditioners: Humic acid, Messenger™, foliar kelp, Eleanor's VF-11™, Plant Success™ mycorrhizal soil inoculant, legume inoculant, earthworm castings, composts, and manures.

• Disease and pest control: extensive line of Safer's, Bonide, Green Light, and others including Neem oil sprays, Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), natural flea and mosquito control, diatomaceous earth, pyrethrins, spinosad, horticultural oils, soaps, pet-friendly slug bait, Hot Pepper Wax, Remedy, and herbal or natural rodent, cat, dog, & deer repellents.

• Barrier and physical pest control methods: Tanglefoot sticky traps, bands, and barriers, copper slug barrier, floating row covers and bags, apple maggot barriers (fruit footies), insect traps, rodent and mole traps, spider traps, pheromone traps & lures, slug saloons, bird netting, electronic pest repellents, scare tape, owls, and eyes.

• Moss control: Worry Free Moss & Algae Control, Safer Moss & Algae Remover.

• Weed control: vinegar-based spray or soil drench (Blackberry Brush Block), Burnout® contact herbicide, corn gluten pre-emergent herbicides, Weed Dragon Weed Burner, landscape fabric.

• Beneficial Organisms: Orchard Mason bees (native pollinators), ladybugs, red wiggler composting worms, beneficial nematodes (predatory on larvae of craneflies, root weevils, fleas, and other soil-dwelling insects), Bt (caterpillar spray and mosquito dunks), mycorrhizal soil inoculants, microbial soil conditioners, compost inoculants. Pheromones to attract ladybugs, other predatory insects, and pollinators.

• Don't forget your compost! We carry Cedar Grove, Fertile Mulch, and Chicken 'n' Chips in bulk, plus bags and/or bales of mushroom and specialty composts, steer and chicken manure, and coconut coir (peat substitute), just to name a few. We also stock worm bins, compost bins and compost starter for the do-it-yourselfer, and cover crop seeds to grow "green manure" in place.

• Sky Nursery personnel have extensive knowledge of organic gardening techniques and least toxic solutions for your garden dilemmas. If you have a gardening problem, come to Sky (with a sample) and ask a Sky professional to help you find your least toxic—and most effective—solution.
  

The staff at Sky Nursery has extensive knowledge of organic gardening techniques and least toxic solutions for your garden dilemmas. If you have a gardening problem, come to Sky (with a sample) and we'll help you find your least toxic - and most effective - solution.