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Be The Bee. For those that live in the Baton Rouge area, it could be a bit of a problem getting pollination from bees and sometimes it may be necessary to help Mother Nature out a bit. The plants we have the biggest problem with are squash. Take a look at this squash fruit:
	This is an example of a squash ovary that hasn’t been pollinated. To learn how to keep this from happening, first we need to know the difference between a male flower and a female flower.
The top picture is an example of a female flower. The bottom picture is a male flower. Notice that where there is an ovary behind the female flower, there is only a stem on the male.
	During the morning hours when the flowers are open. Find a male flower and peel away the flower petals, exposing the stamen to properly apply the pollen.
Touch the stamen from the male plant to the pistil on the female flower to pollinate the ovary. Each male flower can pollinate about 3-4 female flowers.

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For all those looking for a solution for a simple trellis, look no further! We carry trellis netting to secure your vining cucumbers or pole beans. Johnny has been using the trellis netting in out demo garden for a year now. Check out how he did it. Cost effective and super cheap compared to the ready made counter parts.

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We have received the initial shipment of onions. This years varieties are Texas Super Sweet (1015Y), Yellow Granex (Vidalia), Southern Belle Red, and Red Creole onions. We will receive another shipment of onions Friday which will contain all the listed varieties above including Leeks. Any questions feel free to call or email us!

(Added Southern Belle Red and fixed oni0n Sets)

(Sorry for all the emails)

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This past September, we planted out raised beds for the second time. Today, the plants are still doing great. Check out some of our awesome vegetable plants.

In this bed we have six different types of lettuces. In order, from the top left to bottom right, Red sails, Summer bibb, Black Seeded Simpson, Sierra, Red Salad Bowl, and Rubicon Romaine.	In this bed, we have three different kinds of Kale. From left to right, we have Russian Red, Vates, and Dinosaur Kale.
This is our first head of broccoli. It's the variety Packman.	In this raised bed, we have a couple of different plants. At the top we have White Lady turnips. In the middle we have two different varieties of carrots. On the left we have Atomic Red and on the right we have Imperator. To finish off this bed, we put something new to Naylor's, Kohl Rabi. This year we are trying White Vienna Kohl Rabi and it seems to be doing great!

If you like our garden, come by and take a look. Feel free to ask all the questions you need to and if you can’t make it and still have questions, shoot us an email or give us a call at 225-272-6412.

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Fall is in the air and here at Naylor’s that means only two things: Fall Planting and the Naylor’s Annual Garage Sale!

On October 27th and 28th Naylor’s will have its annual garage sale. That means if it’s slightly damaged, heavily damaged, too big, too little, too weird, wrong color, wrong price or just been here too long, it’s on sale!  Many bargains also available in nursery.  Need to make room for Christmas trees.

Strawberries will arrive Tuesday the 23rd. This time we will have the variety Camino Real. This shipment is usually smaller than the first so that means there will be much less supply for those not on the strawberry list. This time we will close the strawberry list on Monday  If you would like to sign up for the strawberry list  GO HERE.  We have potted about 1000 plants for sale latter but this is the last opportunity for bare root plants.

*All reserved strawberry plants will be held for 72 hours after the day of arrival. We will call or email those on the list the day of arrival.

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When we planted the beans in our raised beds, we decided to do a little experiment. If you look at the picture below, you will see that the row on the left is a lot more healthy in appearance, than the row on the right. Inoculant is applied to the seed at the time of planting. What it does is pretty cool. Inoculant is really a fancy word for bacteria. The bacteria has the ability to pull nitrogen from the air and turn it into a kind of nitrogen the beans can use. Therefore, making a self contained nitrogen generator. So take a look and remember to use inoculant for healthy plants

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Our raised beds are still looking great and there are fruit/vegetables set all over our plants. We even were able to harvest a Golden and Green Zucchini. Check out the pictures below.

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