Tom Kimmel – Page 5 – Twixwood Nursery

Twixwood Blog #7

Posted on March 27, 2018April 6, 2018 by Tom Kimmel

It got cold this week and so my mind switched over from shipping plants to making plants. We do a lot of plant production in the winter and for three very good reasons. First of all, many plants only divide and grow good in the winter. These would be all of the Carexes (sedges to normal people). […]

Twixwood Blog #6

Posted on March 20, 2018June 19, 2018 by Tom Kimmel

As I understand it, I am to write about what I feel each week and even though it was snowing this morning I feel like shipping plants. A day in the nursery business without shipping seems to be a day wasted. Most of our customers are in Chicago—2-3 hours away, or in the greater Detroit […]

Twixwood Blog #5

Posted on March 7, 2018June 19, 2018 by Tom Kimmel

We are busily preparing for Spring here at the nursery. Mostly this consists of going over the cash flow to see if we can make it through the year and how many tractors we can afford to buy and how much gravel we can get to fill the potholes and what to do about […]

Twixwood Blog #4

Posted on March 6, 2018March 6, 2018 by Tom Kimmel

We attend all of the regional nursery conventions and trade shows during the winter. We have a booth and we try to sell things while giving the illusion that we are taking the business seriously and trying. Then, we go around the convention hall and harass all of the other groundcover growers. Sometimes we learn […]

Twixwood Blog #3

Posted on February 27, 2018March 1, 2018 by Tom Kimmel

And so our nursery social media person has informed me that I need to pound out a Blog once a week which I am sure would be lovely if I knew what social media was or what a blog is supposed to do or, better yet, if someone told me who has the time to […]

Twixwood Blog #2

Posted on February 20, 2018June 19, 2018 by Tom Kimmel

This is the second ever nursery blog. We are still trying to figure out what it is and why. We think it has something to do with a lot of words with the words being something that tells a story. The story today has to do with winter production of plants here at the nursery. […]

Twixwood Blog #1

Posted on February 6, 2018March 1, 2018 by Tom Kimmel

Twixwood is now entering the Twenty-first Century, albeit eighteen years late. We are going to have a blog even if we do not know what one of them is. They tell me it is the latest thing and that I am going to be the blog writer because everyone else at the nursery is busy […]