Bloomers in the Garden

Bloomers in the Garden•2.22.25•Veggies By Seed?•Hellebore•Winter Pruning• Hotline Mice Caller & More!

1. We’re spending Todays Show in the Vegetable Garden! Wondering what vegetables you should start from seed, and what vegetables you should buy as plants? We’ll have the answers in our 1st segment.
2. In our second segment I’ll tell you which vegetables you should just sow directly in the ground!
3. One of the earliest flowering plants is the Hellebore. It is an old perennial variety known by your grandparents as the Lenten Rose! What’s Old is NEW again thanks to new varieties! We’ll introduce you to this old perennial with a new birth in our 3rd segment!
4. It’s time to make Summer Flowers by Winter Pruning. Not everything should be pruned! We’ll give you the guidelines what to winter prune for summer bouquets in our 4th segment.
5. Lorraine is a listener who called the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline. She was listening to our segment on mice. She didn’t catch the product we mentioned. We’ll share her call and the information in our final segment!

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Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....