Professional Vegetable Garden Maintenance

Maintenance

Why hire an expert gardener to help you with your garden?

Gardening is a joyful experience – and it’s also a lot of work! Homefront Farmers can help you ensure your organic garden is healthy and productive, allowing you to enjoy it fully, without all the worry and upkeep. Here are some things we can help you with:

Time: Our expert gardeners can spend the time required for planting, weeding, pruning, thinning and more. We do the heavy lifting during our weekly visits and you reap the benefits of fresh fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

Knowledge and Expertise: While nature provides most of what your organic garden will need, sometimes there are other visitors to your garden, such as insects, disease and other things that only expert gardeners can see – and fix. We have the knowledge and expertise to help with that. Our designers are trained to integrate flowers and herbs resulting in the most aesthetically pleasing and productive garden possible!

Experience: Why make mistakes when we can avoid them for you! We are happy to help you learn how to avoid common pitfalls in your gardening experience. Homefront Farmers professional gardeners have seen it all!

Planting begins in early spring, as soon as the ground thaws (which happens earlier in raised beds). Cool weather crops include vegetables such as snap peas, spinach, lettuce, carrots, beets, and broccoli. As the season rolls on, we’ll plant the rest of your crops, using organic seeds and transplants, where appropriate, for maximum yield. Our professional gardeners will take the best care of your crops using organic gardening methods of fertilization, thinning and pruning, and weed control to ensure your crops become established and healthy, and continue to produce for the entire season.

Professional Garden Maintenance services include:

Annual garden plan
Soil testing
Soil management
Planting
Fertilizing
Weed control
Thinning
Pruning
Pest and disease mitigation
Succession planting
Harvest
End of season clean-up

Our Garden Maintenance Program

Annual Garden Planting Design The foundation for a successful growing season is a well thought out and personalized garden planting design. To develop this design, we start by asking you to select from our Homefront Farmers Crop Planner all the crops you’d like to grow throughout the season. With this crop list, we create a planting design, allocating space for each crop and configuring a plan for maximum productivity (accounting for sunlight needs, growing height, companion planting strategies, etc.). The plan incorporates succession planting to keep the garden producing for as many months as possible. Once the Annual Garden
Planting Design is approved, it becomes the “blueprint” for the entire growing season.

Full Season Garden Maintenance Package Our full season maintenance package is all-inclusive, so it covers all start-up services to get your garden off on the right foot, such as planting, fertilization and trellis construction, as well as on-going disease/pest management, weed management, succession plantings, pruning, thinning, harvesting, end of season cleanup, and an annual soil test. Plants and large scale soil amendments are not included in any garden maintenance packages. Soil amendment cost is determined once the results of the garden soil test are seen.

Harvesting your fruits and vegetables is fun! We will provide you with instructions on how and when to harvest!

Or, if you prefer, Homefront Farmers will pick all that is ready each time we visit your organic vegetable garden and leave a fresh produce basket at your door. Contact Homefront Farmers today for professional vegetable garden maintenance!

All maintenance practices comply with restrictions listed in the National Organic Standards section.

We are the only vegetable gardening company with its own certified organic greenhouse. Seedlings are readily available all season long, week after week! That means mid-summer lettuces, bok choy and other goodies to keep the salads rolling. Our seedlings are also top sized for the quickest jump on the season possible, without compromising plant health. We offer hundreds of the most sought-after and productive vegetable, flower and herb varieties so your garden reflects you and your family’s specific tastes and preferences!