Local greenhouse already sprouting veggies and flowers
Milten Pearce shows his different varieties of onions inside the main greenhouse of the Potting Shed. Onions are a big part of his inventory every year. (Monte Turner/Mineral Independent)
If you have been waiting to start your plants indoors, you are almost behind schedule as Milton Pearce started planting about two weeks ago.
Pearce, owner of the Potting Shed in St. Regis, has one of his greenhouses sprouting veggies and flowers as he moves them around to which ones need the most heat from his wood stove through the germination process. He has a good stock of perennial plants that recently arrived from Illinois that were planted about a year ago.
“They have basically been through a vernalization. Most perennials take a year which means they have been through cold climate time and the next year they bloom,” he explains. “They are developing perennials that will bloom from seeds in the first year like the Fox Glove. Some lupine, also.”
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