Herbs & Vegetable Plants.   Herbs Herbs are easy to grow and provide some fresh fragrance.  Either from seed or plants, there is nothing like fresh herbs for all kinds of winter dishes, like soup, stews, and many other comfort dishes for those cold winter days. A ready-to-use herb garden will help you add delicious flavors to your winter cooking.   Choose from the largest selection of herb plants in the area.  We have herbs available all year in our greenhouses.  That way you can have fresh herbs for your kitchen whenever you want them.  Create an herb garden of your favorites.     Harvesting Herbs   Vegetable Plants       Grow your own edibles this year. You'll not only have fresher and tastier food, you'll save money as well.  According to the National Gardening Association an investment of $70 in your garden will return an average of $600 in produce.    An added benefit is that you can grow tasty varieties you won't find in grocery stores.  Some of the tastiest food doesn't ship well or doesn't work in commercial production.  We offer all the plants you'll need to have a vegetable garden in Colorado.  We have a full selection of Botanical Interests Seeds, a Colorado seed company as well as additional seed from Lake Valley, Livingston, Bounty Beyond Belief and Hort Couture.  With the seeds we have dormant plants like strawberry roots, seed potatoes, onion sets, asparagus roots and garlic.      Choosing Tomatoes for Your Garden    Choosing Peppers for Your Garden             Nothing says summer like fresh homegrown strawberries. Eversweet strawberry is a fine day-neutral strawberry. Day-neutral strawberries will continue to set and ripen fruit all summer long until a hard frost puts them into dormancy.       Look in our nursery for additional edible including small fruit like grapes, raspberries, rhubarb, blueberries, and fruit trees.       We are offering blueberries that are half-high cultivars that are extremely cold hardy.  These compact plants and are self-pollinating so you can get fruit from a single plant.         Vegetable gardening is fun for the whole family. Kids are more likely to enjoy eating healthy foods if they are homegrown.  Get them involved in the garden.    If you are new to gardening, let us help you start a smaller garden this year that you can manage.  Then you can expand as your interest and time permits.  You can even have a garden in containers on a sunny patio.       Grow a gardener.  Enjoy some free time with your kids out playing in the dirt. Grow something together. Gardening can be an inexpensive family activity and a nice balance to the high tech side of the world we live in. Most adults who love to garden began their hobby in childhood. Teach kids the value of plants in our world. Work together to: choose the plants and plan the layout, schedule and tend to the watering and weeding and prepare menus that use any vegetables or herbs you may have planted.  The main point is for them to have good gardening experiences.  A gardener is one of the most satisfying things to grow.       Echter's Home