Make sure you don’t have standing pools of water in things like old tires, rubbish areas, old five gallon buckets etc. Drain them, drill them or turn them over. But you are very apt to have containers like rain barrels, water troughs for animals or small ponds that can’t be treated so easily. Here, your best solution is to use a product like Summit’s MOSQUITO DUNKS. These are small compressed circles containing bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti)  – a bacterium that is commonly found in damp leaf mold. Throw a DUNK into the barrel. The bacterium is released into the water as the circle slowly dissolves. Mosquitoes lay their eggs on the surface of standing water. The eggs hatch and the larvae develop in the water. Ever look into some standing water at this time of the year and see those little wormy looking things wriggling around? The bacteria enter the mosquito larvae, damage their guts and eventually kill them. And yes, Bti is non-toxic to mammals, birds, fish and virtually all insects.

So put your mosquito repellant on and go clean up your hidden mosquito breeding puddles. Buy some DUNKS and treat those large water collection containers you use. And do your part to protect yourself, your family and your neighbors from mosquito borne diseases like West Nile virus and EEE (Eastern Equine Encephalitis).

Oh yes, don’t forget to put your bat houses up.

Where: The Stone Church, Newmarket NH.

On May 15th and May 22nd, we will be at the Stone Church in Newmarket for their great Farmers Market. We will be bringing a LOT of vegetable seedlings to meet all your plant needs for this year’s garden. Tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, lettuce, Swiss chard, eggplant, cukes, squash, melons, cabbage and more!! We will also have low tunnel hoops, Dr. Tomato’s Organic Fertilizer and Rowdy Roots. Oh yes, and of course we will have our famous organic gourmet mushrooms! Dr. Tomato will be available as always to answer any and all of your questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

Where: The Stone Church, Newmarket NH.

This Saturday, the 21st of April, James & Loretta will be at the Newmarket Farmers Market. In addition to having our famous fresh, organic mushrooms and herbs, James will have a full van load of vegetable and flower seedlings, Rowdy Roots organic potting mix, Dr. Tomato’s fertilizer, low tunnel hoops and all the growing information you need. Come join them!

The venue is small and intimate. The vendors are diverse, enthusiastic and friendly. There is great food available and some very talented live musicians provide first class entertainment. The feeling is more like a family gathering than a trip to the local store. We look forward to seeing you at the next Newmarket Farmers Market!

For those of you not familiar with Newmarket, the Stone Church is up on the hill behind the Post Office in downtown Newmarket. This is our favorite farmers market! Good atmosphere, live music, some wonderful vendors, good food and a variety of  products. See you there!

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As was the case with our Dr. Tomato’s Organic Fertilizer, once people began to see the results we were having they wanted to know…”How can I get some, too?” This has been the question for over a year now concerning our Rowdy Roots Organic Potting Mix. It has been a daunting multi-year process developing our perfect mix, trials and experiments, getting things lab tested, making sure we had taken all the necessary steps and talked to the right people and agencies…all the fun things involved with designing your own brand of organic potting soil! In short order (mere days!) ROWDY ROOTS will be available at the Blue Seal store in Rochester NH. Several other locations, such as the Blue Seal in Windham ME, Farmfield Greenhouses in Lebanon ME, Mountain Grainery in Ossipee NH, Stuarts Greenhouses in Rochester NH, Agway in Dover NH, Blue Seal in Bow NH – to name a few – will also be carrying Rowdy Roots and a variety of our plants and products this spring season as well. As always, you can find us personally at the farmers’ markets in Newmarket too.

If you like our Dr. Tomato’s Organic Fertilizer, you’re going to love the way things grow with ROWDY ROOTS!