Stratton's Cutting Garden

10/15/2024

Closing soon!!

We are expecting a hard freeze Thursday night and plan to close for the season on Friday.

Pumpkins
We have reached the point where it's a little embarrassing to have people arrive in search of pumpkins. Over the next few days we will be delivering the remaining edibles to food banks, donating the non-edibles to community events, and checking in with folks who expressed an interest in items from the gourd tunnel and photo booth.

Flowers
The very hardy varieties somehow still look nice. So if you would like one last bouquet for the season, today through Thursday looks to be your chance.

10/13/2024

We are reaching the end of our pumpkin sale. The jack-o'-lantern pumpkins are sold out. We still have a lot of gourds, and about 100 specialty pumpkins in various colors that have been harvested. Most of them are on the small side.

10/11/2024

Pumpkin Weekend #3!

Pumpkins, Dried flowers, Corns, Grains, etc.
Our stock of pumpkins and squash is dwindling so it seems likely we’ll wrap up the sale before the weekend ends. We still have a variety of pumpkins, squash and gourds, but in significantly smaller quantities. We still have lots of dried flower arrangements, 6 lavender and wheat wreaths, corn stalk bundles, wheat bundles and straw bales. Plus! Our decorative corn finally started to mature so we have some of that available this week. Pumpkin sale hours are 10am-6pm Friday through Sunday.

U-Pick Flowers
60 to 70% of our flowers have been frosted. The varieties that still look nice are the mums, snapdragons, phlox, statice, asters, scabiosa, veronica and calendula. There are also a few dahlias, zinnias and marigolds that were in a spot that spared them from the frost. We close the flower farm when darkness starts to set in this time of year. Currently that’s 6:15pm.

10/04/2024

Restocked and ready for pumpkin weekend #2!

Pumpkins, Dried arrangements, Wreaths, etc.:
Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm
We still have LOTS of u-pick jack-o-lantern pumpkins in the field!

U-Pick FLowers
Tuesdays – Sundays 8am until dusk
We had a frost last Sunday night and again Wednesday night. We still have about half our flowers, but you will need to hunt around a bit more for the good ones.

Heirloom Tomatoes:
Friday 3-6pm & Saturday 10am – noon

We hope to see you soon!

09/27/2024

09/21/2024

Jen will be back to sell her tomatoes at the farm between 10am and noon today! $3 /pound for the larger tomatoes and $4 / pint for cherry sized (or $2 / half pint). If you haven't tried fresh from the field heirloom tomatoes it really is something special! Additionally we still have lots of flowers and it's a beautiful day out here!

09/15/2024

A visual update of many of the varieties currently blooming.

09/13/2024

Heirloom tomatoes for sale between 3:00 and 5:00 today!

Have you met Jen? Jen has worked with me the last four seasons in taking care of the flower and pumpkin fields. She has also supplied her friends and neighbors with a variety of yummy tomatoes from her well loved garden each summer. This season she extended her operation and is growing tomatoes to sell. Come taste the delicious fruits of her labor!

06/15/2024

The flower field is looking quite picked over this morning. If you were thinking of braving the weather to come out, you might want to wait a couple of days.

06/08/2024

Thousands of the dark pink peonies are opening today!

06/04/2024

Most of the peonies are still in bud, but a handful of the darker pink have started to bloom. This means we should have blooming peonies in the field for the next 7-10 days, depending on the heat. They bloom faster when it's sunny and warm. The light pink shade usually start blooming about 4 days after the dark pink.

05/29/2024

We are in the process of opening for the season! Today it is finally looking like a flower farm so we are pulling out all the u-pick gear and you are welcome to come pick. We have limited quantities of limited varieties at the moment, but this is the time of year when something new starts to bloom each day. If you‘re waiting for peonies, you won’t need to wait much longer. They will likely begin to bloom within the coming week. We hope to see you soon!