Proven Winner Certified

Each spring, we proudly participate in reaffirming our Proven Winners Certified Garden Center status. Proven Winners is one of our highly sought-after brands for all things annuals + perennials. They offer high-end plants that are “proven” to flourish in our midwest environment. 

Every spring, our garden center team takes a full Proven Winners training course in order to be more acquainted + knowledgeable in this brand's line of plants. Once our entire garden center team completes this training, we are badged with this exciting certification!

Our goal for this training is for our team members to gain confidence + helpful skills in order to better serve YOU, our loyal customers. 

Throughout the spring, we offer many team-training opportunities for brands such as Breeo Fire Pits, Monrovia, + Promix. We aim to bring not only high-end products right to your neighborhood, but also to offer informed staff that understand these incredible brands + have the tools to answer your questions.

Seed Starting 101

Seed starting is the perfect educational project for your kiddos, or an easy way to get your gardening-fix as an adult!  Starting from seed is a simple way to bring fresh veggies, herbs, or flowers to your garden! Follow our easy step-by-step startup guide to seed starting. 

Supplies Needed:

1. Seeding soil

2. Seedling tray or peat pots

3. Your chosen seeds

4. Optional supplies: grow light, heat mat, + clear plastic dome that fits seedling tray

6 Steps to Success:

1. Fill seedling trays or pots with seeding soil.

2. Level off soil.

3. Lightly moisten the soil.

4. Create indents in soil according to the specific seed package.

5. Place seed into indent + lightly cover with soil.

6. Set seedling trays or pots into a tray of water. (This ‘bottom watering’ method helps prevent the seeds from moving. Allow to sit for 30-40 min then dump extra water.)

Optional Steps, to optimize seed growth:

1. Place seed trays or pots on heat mats to create a consistent soil temperature  - this will help seeds germinate faster. 

2. Place dome on seedling tray. 

3. Once the first few sightings of your little seedlings appear, use grow lights to enhance plant growth and decrease plant stretching. 

4. Once 50-60% of the germination is complete, you can remove the dome.

Come chat with our gardening experts in store to learn more about specific varieties + requirements, and to get all of your seed-starting questions answered! We’ll see you soon!

Plant the Valley

Let’s plant the Valley! We want to share our love of trees with the entire Chippewa Valley!
We have set a BIG tree-goal that comes with an exciting reward for everyone. April thru November 2024, we have set out to sell 2,500 trees at our retail locations. When we meet our goal, we will “dig in” and plant trees throughout the Valley. Help us enrich our community, create sustainability, and bring the joy of nature to all parts of our beautiful town. This is a team effort that involves all of us…

How to join in on this mission:

• Purchase any tree from our retail store - watch the tree tracker grow throughout the months! Every tree purchased makes the tracker leaves flourish!

• Promote the program by displaying our ‘Plant the Valley’ merch! (Button/stickers given after your tree purchase. Sweatshirts + tees are available in our garden shop!)

• Choose to sponsor a tree! (see details below)

Plant the Valley Sponsorships are now available! All sponsorship donations will be applied toward trees to be planted above and beyond our campaign goal. You can purchase a sponsorship online (click link below) or in-store at our retail locations.

Together, we can make a big beautiful impact in our amazing community. Let’s PLANT THE VALLEY! 

(Of note: When you finish your checkout process for tree sponsorship, you will receive a Pick-Up notification as part of our online ordering system; please ignore this notification. All sponsorship donations will be fulfilled and trees planted in November 2024)