Expert Advice

Beginners guide to getting started planting tomatoes in a container garden

Tomatoes can be challenging to grow in containers, but they continue to rate among the most popular summer vegetables. A great benefit to growing tomatoes in containers is portability; you can move the containers to take advantage of the best growing conditions. Containers are particularly useful if you don't have in-ground garden space; containers can be placed on a balcony, porch, patio, driveway, or deck. You can enjoy homegrown tomatoes even if you don't have room for a traditional garden. F...

Decker's Nursery Planting Container Annuals

Lushly planted containers bring the joy of gardening to the smallest of urban spaces. In larger landscapes, they help carry the garden through high summer, when the general show is dulled by the heat. They also have an important design role, in annou...

Bird Lover's Garden: Attract & Feed Birds Year Round

Bird lovers are always looking for more ways to layer in plants that will attract, feed, and shelter our avian friends. The first thing you want to do is survey your yard to assess its bird-friendliness. Keep in mind that grasses that grow along a fe...

Perennial Gardening & Layering

Matt Gregory gives us a brief tour around the early season perennial gardens at Decker's Nursery and shares some helpful information on layering your perennials using both sun and shade options and incorporating plants with different blooming schedul...

Cool Weather Organic Veggies & Herbs: Ready to plant

April brings Spring showers but also is the perfect time to get planting outdoors! Whether you are starting new gardens, raised beds, containers or window boxes the most important first step is to walk your yard and determine where you get the most s...

Organic Lawn Care with Conrad Decker

While it's not as enjoyable as listening to Conrad speak in person, we did manage to record his Organic Lawn Care talk to share with all of you. It's a pretty thorough conversation about Organic Lawn Care on Long Island. Set aside a few minutes to gi...