Garden Guys Nursery and Gardens
Botanical garden,exotic perennial specialists, vegetable cultivators, wholesale nursery basics, and Landscaping experts bring your green thumb to life
Welcome to our live site! At long last our team of gardeners bring the best garden expertise to your very own home through the web. Finally our experience gardening and landscaping in the northern Sacramento valley has taught us things which can alter your garden experience phenomenally. Check out plants from our broad selection, with much more to see in person at our own gardens. With a visually stunning botanical garden that serves as our primary testing grounds for new or fancy species of plants. The joy and frustration of growing plants in one of the harshest climates bestowed us some tips and tricks to maximize your production. Whatever the goal, we've tried that plant before and can teach you how. You can even change your own climate! The secret is in wisdom, and of course genetic diversity. You can fix a brown thumb. We don't believe in that
Focus on the soil
Without soil you've got just nothing but dirt
Knowing certain tricks can make all the difference between cultivating an average garden and an impressive one. Take a look below to find all the tips from our experts. Make sure to check back often, since every season comes with its own gardening challenges.
From dirt to soil, the process of life from earth
When we arrive at the point of deciding whether or not to grow anything at all, We must first conclude that our soil is or is not acceptable. but instead of a simple yes or no, we must look much deeper (maybe even with a microscope if you wanted deeper). several visual cues may clue you in to some basics, texture, color, the way weeds grow are some. however the science of soil is so sophisticated that if you dont have it youve got just dirt. real soil is healthy because its alive, in fact its teeming with microfauna. the backbone of all that life is assuredly sustained primarily by a relationship between humus and dirt which makes soil. pound for pound the humus stains the dirt and releases sustained balanced nutrition.
Soil composition basics
With all real soil the basic substrate is minerals, or dirt. The majority of farmers have to know what they are missing and apply it in available form to grow a decent crop. you cannot avoid considering the basic geology of your location in order to predict the quality of your native soil. what kind of elements do you generally have, are absent, or even toxic. sometimes all that is wrong is the availability of things you already have is low because a low or high ph value.
soil texture basics
The most common test to determine a type of soil quality is to consider texture. shaking a test tube with a spoon full of dirt can separate sand, silt, and clay. then you have the opportunity to visually inspect the bands to determine quantity of each. this factor of what type of dirt you have will determine which types of crops will grow in your soil easily. changing soil texture is what we do when we add stuff to make raised beds. the most generally preferred portions of sand silt and clay are an equal third each. this would be a "perfect" loam which is a desired dirt for most crops
So what is Topsoil Really?
my favorite part: humus, or soil organic material made from long chains of mostly carbon, is the most dynamic portion of soil, and without that fraction where the action happens, you really just have dirt. in fact your soil matrix may be toxic or inadequate by the lack of this skeleton which glues the whole big picture together. humus is what's left behind after all the organisms finish eating their share of the mulch. mulch is just fresh organic material which you can tell loosely what its made of. rice hulls, wood bark, even peat moss are all not broken down and need to be digested into compost to release their components freely, humus is the pure byproduct of all their decomposition. which is vital in importance to understand. they are not equivalent, although both are important in soil
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Ready or not here I grow!
this section is just a primer to your consideration of starting or augmenting, a successful garden. Big or small, if you have further questions i suggest you keep reading the rest of my pages topic by topic. if you're a pro or ready to go check out our wanted selection of plants in the shopping page
Opening Hours
excited to serve you like an individual. one customer at a time
winter hours 9:00-5:00 wednesday-saturday
we are currently building our team. training to ease our short crew. its our busiest time of year so if you come in the shop we might not be available, contact us in advance if you wish to be served. will do our best
Come see our wonderful Nursery & Gardens
We are very busy planting and maintaining not just our gardens but others too, contact us, in advance, if you wish to guarantee our garden is open. And always leave a message we will get back to you when we can
854 N Plumas St, Willows, CA 95988, USA
(530) 934-9580 or (530) 209-2119
About us
Real hard working hippies
For over thirty years Coffmans Landscaping has serviced the greater Glenn County area with diligence and determination. Maintaining landscapes we created through inspiration to try new things. Innovative trials of perennials from other friendly nurserymen familiarized us on the growth habits and inclination of some plants to take over and spread. So we started the Garden Guys Nursery as a sort of cycling house, where we propagated our selections from clients yards. So with excess comes experience based insight into how you too can mix and match new layers, dimensions and themes to enrich the majesty of your own backyard or business as have so many of our diverse customer base. This is the first real website for us. One to ship plants to people looking for things we've got in store. A dream come true would be to get to the audience which desires to live off the land in a way. Sustainability is having most of the things that you like or need in abundance. Be it flowers or food, you can make a living or some of it with things you love. Those big winners of saving money will even work for you while you sleep, or work on other things. So we are new to shipping plants, and we externally still have a solid schedule of lawn care maintainable which splits our time. But we are happy to work with you all. Just give us some patience and time to get running.
