Our second class of 2020 “Intro to Growing Your Own Food” will take place Saturday, February 15th, 10am-12:30 pm at the Ready-to-Grow Garden Center. In this class we will cover the basics of how to grow your own food, including:

– Determining the best location of your garden

– The importance of sun exposure

– Basics of designing an edible garden

– Getting it started

– How to amend soil (compost, organic fertilizers, mulch)

– How to water

– Crop choices and timing

– Planting seeds

– Basics of maintenance (harvesting, weeding, pruning, amending soil, succession planting, organic fertilization, organic pest management)

In addition, we will cover more specifics with a tour of our demonstration garden where attendees can see, touch and taste some of our favorite edible plants.

Space is limited so if you’d like to attend, we recommend registering soon. We have also have a limited amount of chairs so if you have a favorite chair feel free to bring it.

We’d love for you to join us! For tickets please visit our eventbrite page or facebook event page.

South Florida gardeners are enjoying this cooler weather while its here. It has been a great season so far and it has been really nice to be harvesting lots of our favorite veggies and herbs lately. Though it’s getting later in the season, there is still a lot that can be planted midseason with time for a good harvest. Coming up soon, Saturday 2/1, 10am-3pm we will be having our Midseason Garden Sale, including the special of 25% OFF ALL VEGGIE & HERB PLANTS! We have many of organically grown plants ready for a good home, perhaps in your garden! We also have a great selection of seed packs, soil amendments, tropical fruit trees and other supplies for your garden.

To see our plant selection visit our edible plants page. We are located in the heart of Miami’s Horse Country at 4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175. Feel free to stop by!

Our first class of 2020 “Intro to Growing Your Own Food” will take place Saturday, January 11th, 10am-12:30 pm at the Ready-to-Grow Garden Center. In this class we will cover the basics of how to grow your own food including:

– Determining the best location of your garden

– The importance of sun exposure

– Basics of designing an edible garden

– Getting it started

– How to amend soil (compost, organic fertilizers, mulch)

– How to water

– Crop choices and timing

– Planting seeds

– Basics of maintenance (harvesting, weeding, pruning, amending soil, succession planting, organic fertilization, organic pest management)

In addition, we will cover more specifics with a tour of our demonstration garden where attendees can see, touch and taste some of our favorite edible plants.

Space is limited so if you’d like to attend, we recommend registering soon at the eventbrite page for the class. We have also have a limited amount of chairs so if you have a favorite chair feel free to bring it.

We are planning for this to be the first of other classes this season at our nursery and we’d love for you to join us! Also, if you know anyone else that might be interested feel free to share our facebook event page for the class. This also could be a potential gift idea!

Tickets are available at intro_to_growing_your_own_food.eventbrite.com.

Seasons greetings! I hope all of you are winding down your year smoothly with friends, family & fun. At Ready-to-Grow we are taking off some much needed days away from work for the end of the year. It has been a great season so far, and we are grateful that we have been able to help many this season get started growing their own food. We wanted to announce that coming up, Saturday January 4th, 10am-2pm the Ready-to-Grow Garden Center will be open for our New Year Garden Sale! We are located in the heart of Miami’s Horse Country at 4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175. Could your garden use some new plants or materials for 2020?

At our sale we will have a wide variety of organically grown veggie and herb plants as well as lots of other garden supplies such as our custom soil mix, organic fertilizer, seeds and bamboo for trellises. If interested, feel free to stop by! Also, feel free to share this email or our event page on facebook.

If possible it is encouraged for attendees to bring boxes or trays to use for carrying plants to help reduce our plastic usage. Also, if you have trays and pots from getting plants from us before we are happy to reuse them.

Also, to make it easier to help us find what you are hoping to grow, it is recommended that one makes a list beforehand of what they would like to get at the sale. To see our list of plants available for the season visit our edible plants page.

How are you liking this cooler weather? Have you not planted your garden for the cool season yet or do you need to add more to what you’ve already planted? If so and you are in need of organically grown plants and garden supplies, we will have a lot available at our last big sale of 2019! 12/7 & 12/8 we will be open from 10am-3pm.

We will have an excellent variety of cool weather veggie and herb plants and lots of tropical fruit trees (www.ready-to-grow.com/edible-plants/).

Need other supplies for your garden? We will have lots of seeds, organic soil amendments, and bamboo for trellises. Visitors are encouraged to bring their own boxes and trays for carrying plants to reduce our use of plastic. Also if you’ve gotten plants from us in the past and have pots and trays left over, feel free to bring them back so we can reuse them.

We are located in the heart of Miami’s Horse Country at 4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175. If interested, feel free to stop by!

Ready to plant veggies and herbs that like it slightly cooler? If so and you are in need of organically grown plants and garden supplies, we will have a lot available at our next big sale this weekend! 11/2 & 11/3 we will be open from 10am-3pm. We are particularly excited since this will be our first sale with our new hoophouse completed! We will have an excellent variety of tomatoes (over 20 of our favorite varieties, including Everglades Cherry), peppers (ranging from sweet & mild to super hot), eggplant (different shapes, shades, some with stripes), kale, as well as many other greens, herbs, strawberries and lots of tropical fruit trees. Need other supplies for your garden? We will have lots of seeds, our custom soil mix, organic fertilizers, composted mulch, aged manure, and bamboo for trellises. Visitors are encouraged to bring their own boxes and trays for carrying plants to reduce our use of plastic. Also if you’ve gotten plants from us in the past and have pots and trays left over, feel free to bring them back so we can reuse them. We are located in the heart of Miami’s Horse Country at 4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175. If interested, feel free to stop by!

Have any of you noticed a touch of cooler air about? It is transitioning to fall as we know it, the time of the year when we can start planting veggies and herbs that like it extra cool. At Ready-to-Grow we’ve been really busy getting ready for the planting season.

This weekend Oct 5th & 6th, 10am-3pm will be our Season Opening Sale at the Ready-to-Grow Garden Center. We will have a variety of crops available including over 20 varieties of our favorite tomatoes, lots of different peppers, eggplant, greens, herbs and a bunch of tropical fruit trees! We will also have seeds available, soil amendments and plenty of advice. Our address is 4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175. Feel free to peruse our list of plants available ahead of time at www.ready-to-grow.com/edible-plants/. Knowing what you are most interested in getting ahead of time will help make your visit go more smoothly.

In an effort to reduce some of our plastic usage we encourage customers to bring boxes or bins to hold their plants in. Also, if any customers have plastic pots left over from previous plant purchases we are happy to use them again if they aren’t being used.

If anyone would like to invite any friends, feel free to share our facebook event page for the sale!

We will also be open by appointment on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons for the season in general with a $50 min purchase commitment.

Our next sale will be November 2nd and 3rd and after we will have sales the first Saturday of each month for fall and winter.

Feel free to stop by!

Have you always dreamed of a job that includes working outside and helping people grow their own food? Perhaps you should consider working with the RTG team. Our busy season is here and we are looking for people that can help with some or all of the following:
–      Nursery management (plant propagation, soil mixing, potting, weeding)
–      Loading and unloading of heavy organic material (soil, mulch, manure, and an effective way to get stronger)
–      Carpentry (cutting wood, building garden beds, preparing beds for installation)
–      Retail sales (helping customers select plants and materials they need from our nursery to grow food)
–      Installing and maintaining edible gardens
–      System optimization (helping us do what we do better and more efficiently)
–      Garden education (teaching others how to grow their own food, including helping with classes)
If this is a job that you might be interested in, feel free to email Dylan@ready-to-grow.com with a cover letter (what interests you), resume and preferred pay rate. We are open to occasional, part-time and full-time help. Also, if you know someone else that might be interested please share!

Still need a gift for your dad? Summer is here and this coming Sunday is Father’s Day! The day before, Saturday 6/15 we will be opening for perhaps our last sale before fall for our “Father’s Day Sale”. We will have an excellent variety of tropical fruit trees, including about 30 varieties of mango! We will also have a selection of veggies and herbs that can grow in the summer and soil amendments like soil mix, composted mulch, aged manure and organic fertilizer. Have questions about your garden? Come ask them and we will do our best to answer them. Futhermore, we have special deals on certain trees and plants, such as:

• Dragonfruit – $10 for 1 gallon, $15 for 3 gallon
• Purple Caimito (Star Apple) – $30 for 7 gallon
• Longan – $25 for 3 gallon, $50 for 7 gallon
• Cashew – $25 for 3 gallon
• “Everbearing” Mulberry – $25 for 3 gallon
• Coconut – $20 in 7 gallon
• Sapodilla – $50 in 7 gallon, $75 for 15 gallon
• Banana – $20 in 3 gallon, $40 in 7 or 15 gallon
• Papaya – $10 in 3 gallon
• African Potato mint – $2 in 4″ pots, $5 in 1 gallon pots
• Sweet potato – $2 in 4″ pots

If interested in seeing our updated price list before, please send email to dylan@ready-to-grow.com. Feel free to stop by!

The Ready-to-Grow Garden Center was visited by Mother Nature on Monday in the form of a tornado. While there was much structural damage to our nursery, most of our plants are ok and ready for a home, and also could be perfect gift’s for Mother’s Day!

The cool weather that allows south Floridians to grow many of our favorite veggies has left and the more tropical hot and humid weather has arrived. While many annual veggie gardens are winding down over the next month, we are entering a great time of year to plant tropical fruit trees and other heat tolerant plants.

Are you looking to get any fruit trees or other plants for the warmer time of year as a gift for your mom? If so, you might want to check out our Mother’s Day Sale!

This will be happening this Saturday 5/11 from 10am-3pm at our nursery located in Miami’s Horse Country.

4590 SW 122nd Ave, 33175

Our nursery is well stocked will lots of different species and varieties. For example, we have about 30 varieties of mangoes, 6 varieties of dragonfruit, 5 varieties of loquat, and 5 varieties of avocado, just to name a few.

Feel free to stop by!