In The Garden

• Keith and Shannon discuss starting seeds for various plants including flowers, trees, and vegetables.
• Seed starting can be challenging; success comes from good direction and proper technique.
• Start with an open flat, plant seeds in rows, and mark each variety.
• Use vermiculite as a top layer for seeds to retain moisture and encourage growth.
• Use LED or fluorescent lights to provide ample light for seedlings and prevent weak...

1. Keith and Shannon discuss Garden Supply Company's emphasis on customer service and a variety of services outside the garden center.
2. They tier their services according to customers' specific needs, from landscape consultation to DIY advice.
3. Garden Supply offers expert plant advice for DIY customers to help them select the best plants for their gardens.
4. Professional landscape consultations are available to help customers ma...

• Keith, from Garden Supply Company, shares his background and passion for gardening, inspired by his parents.
• Despite his parents considering gardening a hobby, he pursued a career in horticulture.
• As a teenager, Keith did odd jobs in the neighborhood, including cleaning out a chicken coop where he found a flamethrower.
• He utilized the flamethrower to offer unique services like cleaning out areas under trees for his custom...

Shannon: What's next in garden supply? . 

Keith: I'm here with Shannon from Garden Supply Company. We're talking about what's next what's next for Garden Supply Company and what the stuff we've got coming in and changes we're making. We're moving away from. Some of the mass produced products and going with more local products a new look.

Or an old look if you will, a modern sixties, seventies kinda look. But she's got a long...

Keith: So today I've got Shannon here with me from Garden Supply Company., we've talked about unicorn plants plants that are just, you just don't think you're gonna see 'em out there. Things that bloom throughout the year that are evergreen, that will handle wet or dry, that really fit a landscape plant kind of qualification.

What are some of your favorites, Shannon? 

Shannon: So we talked already in the previous one, about ...

This morning I've got Shannon with me from Garden Supply Company. She's got a, a couple subjects we're gonna talk about. Shannon, what, what did you have in mind this morning? I wanted to talk about some unicorn type plants that I consider customers who come in and look for something that's evergreen flowering.

And can tolerate full sun. Yeah. We get that question all the time. They want, they want something that's bulletpr...

Keith Ramsey: [00:00:00] Hey, Keith Ramsey with the Garden Supply Company. I've been talking a lot lately about hiring and our team, the length of time our team has been there, what a difference a good team makes, and how to manage them.

I think it's the key part of a business. It's having the right people and people that enjoy people; owning a local business is a core in the community. You want people to. To look forward t...

Keith Ramsey: [00:00:00] Hey, Keith Ramsey with the garden supply company. I wanted to outline yearly maintenance things we do at our house and recommendations for people. People always call in the middle of spring and want mulching done, that kind of thing. And just laying it out the way I think it should be.

Mulching is a, from a company standpoint, if you're paying somebody to do it, it's always an off-season thing. It f...

Hey guys, Keith, with the Garden Supply Company. Today I wanted to talk to people about all the things that you can do that are close to the garden center. Basically coming over and spending half a day spending the afternoon at the garden center. And in that thought centering it around lunch or going out and getting a drink or.

And we've got some really good places around the garden center and, it's, I've been there 25 year...

Hey, Keith Ramsey with the garden supply company. I've got Jason here with me today. Many of you guys know Jason as our resident beekeeper, manages our bee department, and takes care of everything related to bees. With a little bit of help from me every once in a while. Jason talked the other day, and swarm season's right around the corner.

Jason, what causes a swarm as I 

Bee Expert: I was going to say, swamp, this natu...

Keith: [00:00:00] Keith Ramsey with garden supply company. I've got Jason here today. Jason is our full-time beekeeper who manages the bee department. It helps people out with advice and does all of our pollination and honey chasing that we do up in, up, and down the red.

Jason, now we'll talk about the difference between nukes and packages. What do you think the biggest difference is between nukes and packages? Jason? 

Bee ...

Hey, Keith Ramsey with the garden supply company. I've got Shannon here. Shannon manages our house plant area of the garden supply company. She does all our buying. She's our go-to person when people have questions about new and unusual plants or plant care. Yeah. Today, we talked about just easy plants to have around a plant that you could buy for your son or your daughter.

Something that's for the, an interior designer. M...

Good morning, Keith Ramsey with the garden supply company. I've got Shannon here this morning and wanted to ask her questions about what's trending and houseplants. She manages our houseplant department and garden supply company and does all our buying, and there's just been a massive growth in houseplants, Shannon.

What do you think made the house plant trend spike up? I think COVID had something to do with it. It drove pe...

Keith: [00:00:00] Good morning, Keith Ramsey with the Garden Supply Company. It's wintertime in North Carolina. And I always start thinking about structure in the garden in the winter. And you look out and you've got all these vacant spaces or dull spaces, and there are all kinds of things you can do to create structure.

Japanese maple in the wintertime with no leaves on it creates a fair amount of structure. So you can add...

Keith: [00:00:00] Hey, Keith Ramsey with garden supply company. People are always asking what to do in the wintertime in the garden. And there's, there's a long list of, to do's in the winter. Not many people want to go out because we've got such cold weather. One of my favorite things to do while it's cool is spreading mulch.

It requires a minor cleanup picking up sticks and debris, raking the beds out, and getting everyth...

[00:00:20] Keith: Hey, Keith Ramsey with garden supply company. We've had a lot of questions recently about weeds how to rid your yard of weeds. And it's a constant problem for sure. The one thing about weeds that I always tell people is, if you just spend a few minutes figuring out what we do have and what the lifecycle is you can actually manage it a little bit better. 

[00:00:56] Most people don't want to delve in that d...

Keith: [00:00:00] 

Wintertime in North Carolina is a great time to start prepping your veggie garden, pulling out, finishing up excellent seeds and stuff from the fall. And you can do additional seasonal plannings and cover them, or you can do cover crops, which is a perfect way to get green manure back into the soil.

When I do a cover crop, I usually do rye or like annual ryegrass or oats or, or white Clover, medium red Clo...

33 Garden Design 
 

[00:00:20] keith:  
 

[00:00:41] We're always talking about garden design and how we're gonna, how we're gonna do things, how we're going to mix plants up and different colors and textures and One of the things that I think comes naturally to me and not necessarily utilizing functional way, but just the natural curves and the things that make it feel easy to walk through a garden not straight lines ...

 [00:00:20] Keith: so when it gets cold outside everybody thinks that gardening comes to a halt, but some of the most interesting plants, in my opinion, bloom during the wintertime or really show off during the winter so it's an interesting time too. It's also a, really good time to plant plants. 

[00:00:53] They don't get to go through very little stress through the wintertime. People always think they're going to be too c...