Welcome! Before I share any advice, maybe tell us a little more about your goals? Do you want to grow everything under the sun, or maybe just some tomaotes and squash? What do you have started now? Have you picked out a place for your garden yet? What is it like? (very important, how much sun does it get per day?) Where did you move from? This is good to know, because it will give us an idea of what climate you are used to, which can color your expectations. Then my first advice is to check around here a bit. There are FAQs, there are many forums, and some of them have very specific FAQs. And then read whatever catches your eye. And my second advice is don't try to be a perfectionist right out of the box. It's a complex hobby that can keep you learning new things for years and years. But you can probably grow some very nice green beans your first year with little trouble, for example. Cheers!

Well howdy there neighbor! :) I planted a Fuji apple tree for my wife in early September and then learned in order to get some cross-pollination going, I needed another apple tree that blooms at the same time, so after doing some research on the web I chose a McIntosh for myself (my favorite apple). We planted a cherry tree too. My back yard is to tiny I know I am going to have to be aggressive if these trees 'take-off'. They'll need conscientious pruning to keep them in check. My neighborhood is very young, so there's not enough vegetation IMO.. especially not trees (leaves for composting I have had to steal from Lexington), so I am not sure about the apple tree variety with cedar-apple-rust resistance. I'm a newbie to apple trees. :) Here's a photo of my limited back yard and how I squeezed them all in. They'll serve two purposes (hopefully)... yummy fruit someday and privacy from the bird's eye view at the adjacent street that looks directly down into my back yard (to the right of this picture). I've not heard of kiwi being grown around here, but I second a visit to the Lexington farmer's market when it starts up again next spring. My wife and I go every Saturday. It brings back memories for me of growing up as part of a family that was a major player in produce farming on eastern Long Island til the mid 90's. We grew primarily potatoes and a large variety of other vegetables that we trucked & sold to NYC markets to be cooked in city restaurants. It's not the same place anymore.. these farms vanished (including our own) in favor of tourism, housing developments and vineyards. But I love living out in Central Kentucky. I've lived here for a decade. It's what I can afford. Finally becoming a homeowner (with tiny yard) has been one of the best things I've done. In retrospect my 'inner farmer' should have considered a home with a larger yard, but I am making the most of the little space we have. :)

I live in Tennessee and really wanted to deal with a Tennessee nursery. It's a good idea to deal locally, I assumed. Maybe not, though. The tnnursery website currently has "Fast Shipping Nationwide" scrolling across the top. So naturally, I thought this would work for me. I could have my guys here in maybe ten days and the trees would be here. Nope. Unbeknownst to you when you order, it takes them 7-10 business days to ship out an order (they don't tell you this until you inquire as to if your trees have shipped). That's two weeks, give or take, before the order is ever put on the truck, then you have 3-5 business days transit on top of that. That's normally not an issue, except when you voluntarily set the expectation that the shipping is "Fast" and "Nationwide". I didn't need the 'Nationwide' part. I'm right down the road. Fast would have been nice, but if they had simply told me prior to ordering what kind of time frame I was looking at, I probably wouldn't have minded so much. But they set the expectation at "Fast" repeatedly, and so looking at other nurseries, who ship within a couple of days of ordering, I thought they would as well. Turns out, their shipping isn't fast. At all. In fact, it's so not-fast, that it may actually be the slowest shipping nursery in the market right now. Without exception, every other nursery I checked into ships faster. They probably get your order correct, too. I ordered the BOGO Free apricot trees, paid for two, so should have received four. I didn't. I got two in total. I ordered trees advertised at 3'-4' tall, and received trees that were 33" tall. When I have ordered trees in the past from other nurseries, they're always very generous with the height of the trees they send you. Order a 5'-6' tree, and you'll almost always get on that's 6 1/2 feet tall. When I called to let them know, the sales department answered, and when I tried to tell them what was going on, I was told that they don't accept phone calls, and that I would have to email someone. So I began emailing them, and received a few responses back and forth over a few hours, which is super annoying to have to constantly stop and restart again. Once I left them a bad review on their own website, someone reached out to me and called. She informed me that they include the length of the root ball in the total height calculation. I was ready for this, having called TyTyGa, Fast Growing Trees, and another I can't remember, all of whom (not only took my phone call) confirmed for me that if a nursery is telling you that they calculate root ball length in overall tree height, that they're probably being not terribly up front with you. In the end, they agreed to send me the two trees that I was short, and credit me with, I guess, a partial refund for the trees that were short, which doesn't help me a lot, since I'm not interested in planting those trees because they're so small. I asked if they could ship out the trees that are the correct height for me, and was told that they would be happy to do so, but only after I sent the short ones back (I sent them photos of the trees with a measuring stick next to them to verify the issues for them), and that they wouldn't send the correct trees out to me until they received the rejected trees, nor would they send me a shipping label. I would have to pay for shipping. I was told that a manager would be reaching out to me, which never happened. My whole planting schedule is screwed up now. I've sent my guys home twice, and they've let me know that I'm back at the back of the list - four weeks out. You got me this one time, but you won't get me again. It's a shame that a local business doesn't care as much about me as I did them. That's how I see it. I'm not asking to be favored, but I am asking to be treated fairly, and this isn't that. FYI, I believe that TNNursery also owns or is owned by Tennessee Wholesale Nursery. Also, pay attention to the positive reviews on this site; they all sound like American names, but the diction is terrible and the English is either from the Indian subcontinent or from China. It seems as though all of the positive reviews have that in common. I'll never do business with them again.

Thank you for the compliments. I stayed up last night to learn how to post the picture but was unable to. Then this morning I was able but I forgot to write something. Yes those are my 3 children, one of my daughters just had a baby 2 months ago so she and her husband were unable to attend the wedding. That was at the end of the night of dancing and having fun. The dress remembered only cost me $30. WELL TO MAKE THINGS MORE DIFFICULT!!! I went to Lord and Taylor this morning and bought another dress, which I think is the one, I cant find it on the computer. It is a Tahari dress, sheath, stretch cotton with a collar like the one above, looked more like a day dress to me. I only wish I could find it on the internet, if not I will take a picture and download it. I was thinking of a medium sized black hat (which I had my heart set on) and dress it up with yellow, which and maybe a hint of red flower on the hat. Just a thought. I just want everyone to know how much you all have helped me. I was looking at the wrong type of dresses, hopefully I can find the dress and see what you all think.