The Gardening Guru
Ambler Farm Transplants
With the weather warming, it's time for Ambler Farm's annual transplant sale and some advice to go with it.
Ambler Farm's second annual organic transplants sale is here and Ben Saunders certainly puts a lot of time and energy into the care of the fragile young sprouts. The day that I spoke to Saunders, the farm manager and transplants farmer, the mercury on my thermometer topped 91°F, a sudden rise in temperatures that isn't good for some seedlings. Saunders was hurriedly moving lettuce to the shade underneath the greenhouse. "It's a bit of a shuffle trying to move things around," said Saunders. "Lettuce won't germinate in temperatures this hot." Saunders grows all the transplants himself from seeds purchased from suppliers like Hi Mowing Organic Seeds of Vermont, Johnny's Selected Seeds out of Maine, and Fedco, which is located in Waterville…
