There are two main components in landscape design. These two parts are Softscape and Hardscape. Hardscape are design elements that are solid and unchanging as the years go by. Softscape are elements that are fluid and changing as they mature. The ideal landscape is a balance of both hardscape and softscape.
In Minnesota, a year-round farmers market would require year-round greenhouses. Is it possible? Host Susan Berkson talks...
Pahl’s Market Moss Basket Days is an easy way to get a head start on your garden, so shake off the winter doldrums and join us in March to get a jump start on your Spring garden! You’ll receive creative ideas from our helpful staff in the comfort of our warm greenhouses. We guarantee you will select the right plants for your growing conditions using our color-coded trays for sun or shade. The staff is dedicated to making planting easy and fun. We provide free helpful advice as well as offering refreshments for all who attend. Our experienced staff, top notch soil, excellent variety and quality of plants all help make the finished Moss Basket a masterpiece for your deck or porch. Don’t forget, they also make great gifts for Mother’s Day!
Here in Apple Valley at Pahl’s Market we average 49.9 inches of the white stuff annually. That sounds like a lot of shoveling but it usually comes only a few inches at a time. Once in a while we get a whopper storm but that just adds to the drama of our wonderful winters. Our numbers sound pretty good when you think of Duluth, MN which averages 80.7 inches each winter. So you ask why I am writing about snow and not plants? Well, the plants really need good snow cover in our zone 4 climate.
Of all the plant varieties growing in the display gardens along the exterior of our greenhouses, the most noticeable during the winter months is an uncommon semi-dwarf Norway spruce with an unusual name; Picea abies ‘Acrocona’.
Employee Name: Jorge Salinas Escareno
Number of years of service at Pahl’s:
16 Years
Briefly describe your job duties at Pahl’s:
Prepare and plant seeds in the fields. Maintain, operate and clean mechanical equipment and farm machinery. Supervise crew workers.
What is the most rewarding part of your job?
The satisfaction of the high quality product we grow and the consumers enjoyment of it.
Tell us about your family
I have two daughters – Gina is 20 and Jennifer is 7, two sons – Jorge Jr. is 13 and Alexander is 6, and my wife Alejandra – who are everything to me.
The past two years definitely showed the extremes of weather we can deal with here in Minnesota. Regardless of the curveball Mother Nature threw at us this past season, our hard working landscape crew was still able to complete over 200 landscape projects.
The tree stand should be kept full of water. If the water level drops below the base of the tree, a seal will form over the cut...
A total of approximately 80,000 man hours were spent raising and harvesting our vegetables. The farthest we shipped anything this year was Houston Texas and the closest was Apple Valley Cub Foods. We shipped close to 16 million pounds of fresh produce around the upper Midwest and Canada with sweet corn being the leader. Cabbage was second, winter squash was third, pumpkins fourth, and peppers (green bells, jalapenos, serranoâs, habaneros, anaheims, poblanos and red fresno) were fifth. Cucumbers would have been fifth in order of most pounds shipped, but unfortunately our cucumbers were wiped out by the hail storm that came through in August.
This past year was perhaps one of the most difficult years to raise a crop from start to finish in this area. Spring time temps were cold and wet, followed by 6 weeks of no rain. The only saving grace was the nice fall through October which allowed the maturity of some of the crops that were planted so late in the spring. Next year will be here soon so we can forget about the past and look to the future and start the process once again.
Glory to God in the highest And on earth peace good will toward men Born unto a virgin was God's only begotten Son Emmanuel (God...
The fragrance in our greenhouses all through December will surely enhance your Christmas spirit. A beautiful mix of balsam,...
The Japanese maple (Acer x palmatum) comes in many beautiful cultivars and is the most widely grown maple in the American...
Each box will contain fruits and/or vegetables at peak harvest season for that week. Each share also comes with a $20 gift certificate to Great Harvest Bread Company and a $20 gift card to Von Hanson Meats with the first share box! All member options include weekly share boxes and access to special Harvest Events.
We would love to hear from you with any landscaping questions or comments. We take projects throughout the south Twin Cities suburbs, with most of our projects taking place in Apple Valley, Lakeville, or Burnsville.
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