Turning the calendar and the cooler weather in the evenings this past week are welcome signs signaling the impending start of fall and with it, cooler temperatures. Time to plant your fall vegetable garden! Living in the North Carolina allows us gardeners to take advantage of not two but three growing seasons: cool temperature gardening [...]
It shouldn't come as a surprise that herbs are popular plants at Blackhawk Hardware's Garden Center here in Charlotte and our customers love them. They don't take up a lot of space, aren't needy and are super useful to have on hand. Whether you plant herbs in your raised garden bed, containers on your patio, [...]
Spring is a great time for vegetable planting. You can still plant many cool season vegetables and soon it'll be time to plant summer crops. A note on those: If you prefer starting seeds indoors over purchasing seedlings at Blackhawk Hardware's Garden Center, it is now time to start those as well if you haven't [...]
The answer to the question as to when should you start planting vegetables in Charlotte really depends on the vegetable. Some like arugula, spinach and peas can be sown as early as the ground can be worked. If you get seeds in the ground this weekend you can count on a spinach harvest in 30 [...]
Direct from Holland Meet the pride of our garden center: spring bulbs! Few plants signalize spring quite like tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths. If you are looking for highest quality and a huge variety of flower bulbs in Charlotte, please pay us a visit. Our bulbs are directly imported from flower farms in the Netherlands to [...]
