Villager Journal
A collection of thoughts, tips and news from Villager Nursery.
Q. How do I maximize growth and vigor of all the plants in my High-Sierra, mountain garden?
Q. How do I maximize growth and vigor of all the plants in my High-Sierra, mountain garden? This was a recent question... wow. there is really no short answer. I might say: "Plant very well, fertilize like crazy, mulch like crazy, water like crazy and prune like...
Mid Season Planting – July/August
In the Mountain Nursery business the season starts when it starts: when the snow melts and we've had a reasonable period of time to recover from the last hard frost or heavy snow (usually early May to mid-May). The busy season goes until the 4th of July when the rush...
Our Native Plants
Our Native Plants The following is an occasionally updated list of native plants Villager Nursery frequently offers and common sizes. Slow-growing and highly temperamental species are priced accordingly higher. Availability varies with seed collecting, timing, and...
Organics and Soil Fertility
This spring I’ve spoken to so many people who fertilized once and thought that was good enough.
11th Annual Kellogg FREE Planting Days | May 31st – June 1st
11th Annual Villager / Kellogg / G&B / MNGC Planting Days are Friday AND Saturday, May 31st - June 1st - 10am-2pm - (There is a large turn-out each year). It is always a busy weekend in the nursery and we REALLY appreciate the incredible efforts of Kellogg's...
Mountain Tree (or Shrub) Planting Guide
Planting, mulching, fertilizing, irrigating and a little pruning. How and why we do what we do.
Mountain Vegetable Gardening in Brief
Mountain Vegetable Gardening SemiBrief 2018 class hand-out
Spring and Early Summer Classes / Events
Villager Spring Classes and Events from April – June 2019
A Few Fruits and Berries for Truckee
Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie. Vanilla Ice cream smothered with warm plum-crabapple sauce. Chokecherry jelly on sourdough toast. Plump raspberries. Fresh, crisp, juicy apples. And thatʼs just some of the sweet stuff. Space in your yard can yield so much more than just visual...
Growing Potatoes
PREPARING THE SEED TO PLANT: Seed potatoes should be stored in a cool, dark place. We do not use chemicals to prevent our potatoes from sprouting. They may have already begun to sprout. This is often considered desirable. Handle them carefully. When examining them,...
Late Winter 2019
We have closed the shop for the past 4 mid-winters (Christmas-March). I've used the time to catch-up on bookkeeping, administration, filing, orders, articles, hand-outs and a few projects (and have a little free time). We probably won't continue our winter...
Mid-Winter 2018-2019
As I closed the gate for our mid-winter season I came back inside to change the message on the answering machine, adjust the holiday lights timers, change the hours on our gate and on the search engines and social media: Bing, Google, Yelp, Facebook and this webpage...
Late December Truckee-Tahoe Christmas Trees
Because we are "off the beaten path" of Truckee (far-west Brickletown & far-east Gateway) we usually BEGIN to sell Christmas trees on the Friday night that Bay-Area schools get-out for the holidays. Reno was completely sold-out last week. Truckee's Boy Scout &...