{"id":3740,"date":"2014-04-27T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2017-08-26T00:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T04:18:42","slug":"garrett-graham-owner-of-the-needham-garden-center-talks-about-organic-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/garrett-graham-owner-of-the-needham-garden-center-talks-about-organic-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Graham, Owner of the Needham Garden Center, Talks About Organic Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Wednesday, April 16<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Garrett Graham, owner of the Needham Garden Center, generously took the time to put together\u00a0and present a wonderful program about organic gardening to the Kalmia Garden Club at the Needham Library.\u00a0 Garrett, who grew up in Needham, and lives here now with his family, has owned the Needham Garden Center since 2001. Garrett mentioned that this business was originally established in Needham in 1939 by the Marsilli family, and this year is celebrating its 75<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> year! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Topics covered during the presentation included organic weed control, fertilizers, insect control, lawn care, &amp; disease control.\u00a0 Garrett brought a variety of the organic products sold in his store with him, which were available for members to look at.\u00a0 He also discussed a variety of solutions that minimized potential garden problems, such as inhibiting fungus diseases in plants by ensuring good air circulation and not watering at night. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Garrett described how organic fertilizers work differently from chemical fertilizers, by feeding the microbes in the soil, which can then make the nitrogen available to the plants.\u00a0 It\u2019s a much more natural process than chemical fertilizers, which actually kill the microbes in the soil.\u00a0 He pointed out that the organic method sometimes can take longer than using traditional chemicals, but the results are worth it. \u00a0Garrett and his associate Tom McLaughlin, a chemist who worked for Polaroid, then answered a wide variety of questions raised by Kalmia members. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Needham Garden Center is a very unique small business and Needham is very lucky to have them.\u00a0 They have a good selection of both organic &amp; traditional garden products, which are competitively priced, and they are very knowledgeable about their products.\u00a0 They also have some new products this year that are worth checking out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, visit the Needham Garden Center at 53 Chestnut St. in Needham center (behind the Learning Express) to discuss organic solutions to your gardening problems &#8211; your children and pets will thank you!\u00a0 And check out the Garden Center\u2019s website &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.needhamgardencenter.com\/home.html\">http:\/\/www.needhamgardencenter.com\/home.html<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &#8211; there\u2019s a \u201cNews &amp; Tips\u201d section, and a Newsletter is in process.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 16th, Garrett Graham, owner of the Needham Garden Center, generously took the time to put together\u00a0and present a wonderful program about organic gardening to the Kalmia Garden Club at the Needham Library.\u00a0 Garrett, who grew up in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,46,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy-at-home","category-green-tips-old","category-lg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}