VERY SPECIAL PRODUCTS TO BENEFIT YOUR SOIL LIFE & YOUR PLANT LIFE
The Garden Center at Harlequin’s Gardens is stocked with the best products to enhance your garden and allow you to grow organically. These include local bagged composts, mulches, garden tools, fertilizers and minerals, seeds, organic pest repellents, pots, compost tea and so much more! Below are descriptions of many of the products we have available only at our store.
BIG FOOT MYCORRHIZAE
Water soluble, combining four species of mycorrhizae with biochar, worm castings, seaweed, and rock minerals to provide a strong population of plant allies to bring water and nutrients.
ENDO MYCORRHIZAE
Water soluble symbiotic fungus, inoculate roots to bring water and nutrients. Easy to use and very effective. Good for shrubs and trees, veggies too; dissolve in water, wet roots.
MYKE VEGETABLE AND HERB
Enhances growth, development, and production; wet roots and dust on the granules or sprinkle in seed row to improve germination.
COMPOSTS
ORGANIC MUSHROOM COMPOST
From a local organic mushroom farm. Premium food for soil life and wonderful in vegetable gardens, helps to loosen heavy soils and improve aeration and porosity. Limited availability.
LAWN TOPDRESSING
A finer-textured grade of local Eko Compost, ideal to topdress lawns following aeration and fertilizer; gets food and water holding capacity to roots; great for topdressing perennials too.
A-1 ECO GRO
Locally made from landscape and beer wastes, proven successful for many years
EKO COMPOST
Made locally from egg farm chicken manure and wood wastes, long history of success
COMPOSTED DAIRY COW MANURE
From low salt local Dairy Cow manure and bedding; use only 1” and dig in (Call for availability)
EXPANDED SHALE
A shale product that is mined and fired just south of Boulder to create a porous, light “gravel” that holds both water and air and creates optimal housing for microorganisms. Aids in water penetration of tight clay soils (a Real clay buster!).
HUMATE
A natural trace mineral, carbon, and humic acid soil conditioner. It is not a fertilizer, but it has a significance effect on fertility by making the nutrients in the soil more available
FERTILIZERS
BIOSOL 6-1-1
A vegan organic fertilizer made from fermented soybean meal, cottonseed meal, trace elements etc. It is largely fungal biomass mixed with a bacterial biomass. It enhances both soil health and microbial life, with slow-release non-chemical fertility. It has the lowest salt index of all organic fertilizers. Used by the US government in restoration projects. We use it in our Soil Fertility Mix. pH 6.5-7.5 OMRI certified organic.
BIOSOL FORTE 7-2-1 (7% nitrogen, 2% phosphorus, 1% potassium)
The same fertilizer, but not certified organic.
CORN GLUTEN
Corn Gluten acts as a non-toxic “Weed and Feed”. It prevents roots from forming on germinating seeds. Best to water in after sprinkling around. Then it is good to have a dry period to allow the seedlings to dry out, so don’t over-water. Most plants like to dry out a little between waterings to get oxygen. Don’t use where you are seeding as it prevents seed germination.
Corn Gluten feeds plants with 9% nitrogen so whatever is already growing will be fertilized, weeds and all. In Colorado, Corn Gluten is quite effective in preventing weeds. One application lasts about 6 months so 2 applications a year are needed for strong control.
Applied in September / October, and again in late February / March it will prevent the majority of existing weed seeds from germinating. By doing this every year, you can virtually eliminate your weed problem. – Kelly Grummons: Timberline Gardens, July 2010
SOIL FERTILITY MIX
Harlequin’s own blend of certified organic fertilizer, humate, rock minerals, dry molasses, land-sourced coral calcium and mycorrhizae. Great for veggie gardens and all plants; very popular and successful!
YUM YUM MIX 2-2-2
Vegan/Organic fertilizer for alkaline, nutrient-poor Western soils, feeds plants/microbes. Made from alfalfa, cottonseed meal, kelp meal, rock dust, green sand, humate. Great for Xeriscape and native plantings.
RICHLAWN 5-3-2 organic
Made in Platteville from poultry manure and wood wastes. Excellent for shrubs and trees and is recommended for raspberries and other small fruits. Economical and effective for fertilizing lawns.
ALPHA ONE FERTILIZER, locally made 7-2-2
An alfalfa-based product with a high organic matter content, very high humic acid value, low pH for Colorado alkaline soils, and is non-burning. It also contains blood meal, cottonseed meal and bone meal. Excellent for vegetable gardens and lawns.
COOP POOP
Composted chicken manure, high in calcium, high in nutrients, economical and low in odor.
COMPOST TEA
Enriches soil, prevents disease, supports and inoculates soil life, increases plant growth and flowering. We make our own from Biodynamic Compost. Local fertility. Try it! Available in frost-free season.
MILE-HI ROSE FEED
Locally formulated specifically for Colorado soils, mostly organic, contains 12 essential nutrients and trace minerals for roses, adds organic matter, supports microorganisms. We’ve been using this for 18 years at the Boulder Dushanbe Tea House with great results. Sadly, the Company has closed, and this is the last year to get Mile-Hi Rose Feed.
ROCKY MT. MINERALS
High calcium mineral supplement from Salida; improves yield, stem strength, fruit quality and nutrient density of foods, in general improves health of plants. Good bio-availability.
MULCH
FINE WOODCHIP MULCH
Mats tight to prevent blowing by the wind, and allows less light to get to weed seeds, has more nutritive potential than cedar or redwood, decomposes rapidly against the ground, feeding the soil and plants.
SOIL PEP
Partially composted fine bark mulch, dark and beautiful, ideal for rose gardens, shrubs and perennials, premium quality for front entrances and high visibility. Feeds the soil and plants.
POTTING SOILS
OCEAN FOREST POTTING SOIL
FoxFarm’s top grade with kelp meal, bat guano, crab, and fish: nutrient rich: performed well.
FORT VEE
Compost based, peat, rockdust, blood meal, kelp, bone meal, gypsum, vermiculite, biodynamic preps. Proven locally at Kilt Farm for seed germination and transplanting of seedlings and potting up house plants, super soil blocks.
COCO LOCO POTTING SOIL
Made with Coco fiber instead of peat, looks good, it performs well.
OTHER KEY PRODUCTS
SOLAR CAPS
Season extending device that’s a big improvement over “Wall-o-Water”. Sturdy wire frames are covered with a water-filled lining, they don’t blow over, light transmission is excellent. They can be left on all season to keep the soil warm at night, which is very beneficial for tomatoes and peppers. We planted a tomato in one on April 11, the first fruits were ripe July 15.
AVENGER
Nontoxic herbicide made from citrus oil (d-limonene), fast acting, as effective as 20% vinegar, with no worry about the acidic effect of 20% vinegar.
20% VINEGAR
In our trials of non-toxic herbicides, this and Avenger were by far the most effective
INSECT SAVER
A nifty device to catch insects with one hand, study them, then release outdoors.
Remember that even the tiniest backyard or balcony can be a stopover for those smallest of animals upon which we all depend.
– Xerces Society