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Home | OLD-Archive | Compost Tea is here! (and the current Veg list)

Compost Tea is here! (and the current Veg list)

Now offering Compost Tea

The first gallon is FREE with any purchase

Mikl has been researching compost teas for three years and thinks this compost tea may be a very high quality and effective treatment for both fertility and increasing the beneficial bacteria and fungi in our soils.  We are using a compost in a swirling vortex brewer.

According to Steve Diver of Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas, compost teas “provide soluble nutrients that promote a noticeable greening of crops, …provide bioactive compounds that function as bio-stimulants and coat the plant surfaces with protective microorganisms.”  The microorganisms are very important in making nutrients available, in improving soil structure and in suppressing diseases.

But our experience is limited so we want you to test this compost tea and tell us if you see any positive results.  Take one gallon for free (bring your own clean 1 gallon jug or pay $1.00 for a jug and return it rinsed clean for a $1.00 refund).  This offer will be good from now until June 30th.

This compost tea may be applied full strength as a fertilizer using a sprinkling can or strained and sprayed or may be diluted up to 4 times for use as a microbial innoculant (increasing your population of beneficial bacteria and fungi).  It is best to use the compost tea within 4-6 hours. Besides the value to our plants, this compost tea offers great potential in having a locally produced renewable fertility product.

Here is a comprehensive list of the organic vegetable starts that are still available.

SQUASH
Lady Godiva Pumpkin
New England Pie Pumpkin

Delicata – winter
Long Island Cheese – winter
Spaghetti – winter
Sunshine – winter
Tetsukabuto – winter
Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash – winter
Uchiki Kuri – winter
Uncle Dave’s Dakota Dessert – winter

Coosa – summer
Gentry – summer
Ronde de Nice – summer
Soleil – summer
Tatume – summer
Tromboncino – summer

MELONS
Collective Farm Woman
Jenny Lind
Noire des Carmes
Sugar Baby

CUCUMBER
Armenian
Bush Champion
Diva
Homemade Pickles
Marketmore
Suhyo Long
Super Zagross
Salad Bush

TOMATOES
Black Krim
Black From Tula
Box Car Willie
Carmello
Cherokee Purple
Garden Peach
Gardener’s Delight
Golden Delight
Goliath
Jaune Flammee
Kellogg’s Breakfast
Mexico Midget
Mo’s Golden Paste
Mortgage Lifter
Opalka
Orange Blossom
Orange Queen
Paul Robeson
Principe Borghese
Pruden’s Purple
Rutgers Indeterminate
Siletz
Speckled Roman
Stupice
Taxi
Thessaloniki

PEPPERS
Alma Paprika
Anaheim
Ancho/Poblano
Ariane
Espanola Improved
King of the North
Lanterna
New Mexico #6
Orange Thai
Peruvian Purple
Pretty in Purple Pepper
Purple Cayenne

EGGPLANT
Applegreen
Black King
Dusky
Galine
Listada de Gandia
Nadia
Pingtung Long
Prosperosa
Rosa Bianca
White Fingers

BASIL
cinnamon
Fine Verde
Italiano Classico
Mrs Burns Lemon
Nufar
Spicy Globe
Thai
Tulsi or Holy

CHARD
Argentata
Golden Sunrise
Orange Fantastic

MISC
Celeriac Brilliant

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Harlequin’s Gardens is closed for
the season until early March 2021.

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303-939-9403 (Retail)
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4795 North 26th St
Boulder, CO 80301

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The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.