HELPFUL RESOURCES
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To Your Organic Lifestyle
Creating a Winter Wonderland
As the last of the fall leaves flutters to the ground, our gardens often look like barren wastelands. It can feel like Winter just becomes a season to survive through until the greenery returns in spring. With a few simple plant selections though, you can take your...
Nature-Friendly Fall Cleanup
Nature-Friendly Fall Clean-Up While a leaf-free Winter garden might look pleasant to many folks, retaining some of those pesky leaves is actually extremely beneficial. Leave choice leaf litter in your beds as mulch. Got extra? Try your hand at composting! Have a mower...
How to Use Your Soil Test Report
How do I add 1 pound of nitrogen (or phosphorous, potassium, etc) per 1,000 sf? What product? And how many pounds?
Planting Your Spring Garden in Autumn
Planting bulbs in your garden can be one of the most rewarding fall garden activities! October and November are the perfect months to get all your bulbs into the ground. After you bury your bulbs in fertile soil, you can walk away knowing that they will stay...
Custom Blend Rose Fertilizer
You don't have to be a rose connoisseur or have a large-scale rose garden to value the beauty of a well-cared for rose. No one appreciates the rose’s charm more than the McElhose family, which owns the Antique Rose Farm in Snohomish, Washington. The late founder of...
Neem Cake: The Workhorse Fertilizer That’s On Our Radar
Here at Walt's Organic Garden Center, our first response to aphids, spider mites, and powdery mildew is always to grab the spray bottle of diluted neem oil to control the pests. However, we recently started carrying neem cake, which is the byproduct when creating...
New Location Opened March 1st, 2018
Walt’s Organic is opening in its new location on March 1st! Our new address is 2209 West Elmore Street Seattle, WA 98199 [Google Map] (in the Interbay Neighborhood) Please come down for a Grand Reopening Celebration! Join us all weekend long to toast to our permanent...
We Are Moving Sale
Hello Valued Customer, This is the last week to visit us in our Ballard location. Please come on down and enjoy some great savings. Seeds are 50% off. Everything else is 15% off! We have 4” herb, flower and veggie starts as well as fertilizer and soil amendments. We...
To Shape Shrubs Or Not
Are Arborvitae able to be shaped this time of year. In addition, when is the best time to shape dwarf boxwood. ~Anonymous October 18, 2016, Seattle, WA Firstly, as a graduate of the Master Pruner Seminar Series at Plant Amnesty, I feel obligated to advise against...
Cutting Back Sword Ferns
Sword ferns Polystichum munitum are a native plant here in the Pacific NW. They are extremely hardy with an expansive root system making them indespensible in soil stabilization projects. A usually evergreen fern that integrate nicely into modern and rustic...
