Expert Advice

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 sun. 6 hours is best to grow healthy plants, bearing bountiful crops. Map a plan to get 3 seasons of nourishing vegetables, rotating plantings of seedlings and sowing additional seeds to maximize your crop. 

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...

Tomato Seed Starting with Pam Ireland

As promised, we've recorded our first short video of Pam Ireland giving an introduction to seed starting! Below you'll find some notes from her talk as well as links to additional resources that may help you on your vegetable gardening journey. 

Winter Gardening Tips To Keep Your Plants from Dying This Year

Over the course of millions of years, most of the plant life in North America evolved to survive the long and difficult winters. However, the plants that we use for the landscape around our homes aren't always built to withstand that changes that occ...

9 Winter Houseplants to Help You Beat the Blues

Seasonal Affective Disorder (also known as SAD) affects approximately 6% of the U.S. population. An additional 14% suffers from a less severe form of SAD known as the winter blues. If you're part of either of these groups and need help boosting your...

Caring for your Christmas Tree

What type of tree makes the best Christmas tree? Here at Decker’s Nursery, we’ve been committed to providing quality Fraser and Balsam Firs that we procure from a small grower in Canada. This year we’re also offering Noble Firs and feel that these 3...

Christmas Trees 101 with Conrad from Decker's Nursery

Conrad walks us through all the basics that everyone should know when picking out, setting up and caring for your Christmas trees! You may already know some of these helpful tips but you might be surprised to learn something new. As always, we welcom...

How To Pick The Perfect Fresh Christmas Tree

Selecting a cut Christmas Tree is a ritual that varies from family to family. We're very fortunate at Decker's Nursery to be able to say, with confidence, that we sell some of the freshest trees on Long Island. Our secret is that we use the same grow...