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FEATURED QUOTE :
"Every spring is the only spring--a perpetual astonishment. "
~Ellis Peters
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Meet the Tomato King, Steve Goto
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Sasha's Altai
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It's tomato time at Yamagami's Nursery and our selection is getting more exciting every week. Saturday and Sunday, April 10th and 11th Tomato King, Steve Goto, will be here with his special selection of organically grown tomato plants. He will teach Free Succeeding with Tomatoes classes at 10 AM and 2 PM both days. Get here early if you want a seat; it's first come, first seated!
Steve Goto selected 'Sasha's Altai,' an early tomato from Siberia with an interesting history for our tomato selection. Turns out a Siberian man, Sasha, in order to supply a collector with seed from what he called the best tomato in Siberia, made a trek on foot 70 kilometers to and from the Altai Mountains. The tomatoes grown from that seed were named for him, and yes, they were delicious. So delicious in fact, that ' Sasha's Altai ' were selected by Organic Garden Magazine as one of the 10 best early tomatoes in the world!
So if you want excellent flavor from an early tomato, 'Sasha's Altai' 'is for you. It is also good where summers aren't as hot, like foggy, coastal areas. This is just one of Steve Goto's special selections. To learn more about the rest, be sure to attend one of his free classes.
Click here to see a list of the tomato varieties we anticipate offering this year.
Happy Harvests!
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Harvest Supreme Spring Tomato and Vegetable Planting Special!
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Buy 3 get 1 FREE!
Time to get growing! Yamagami's Nursery recommends mixing all organic Gardner & Bloome Harvest Supreme into your soil when planting tomatoes, vegetables, herbs and annual flowers. To help you get growing right, our special price is - purchase 3 bags and get 1 bag FREE. Special pricing ends Friday, April 30.
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Black Jack Fig, Sweet and Compact!
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Want a fig tree that is easy to train and keep under control? 'Black Jack' is your perfect choice. It will even do well in containers! Another space-saving way to grow it is to train it flat, as an espalier. 'Black Jack' is a prolific bearing tree with delicious fruit. Fruit starts out green, then darkens to a rich purple as it ripens. It has sweet and juicy strawberry-colored flesh. 'Black Jack' can easily be kept 6 to 8 feet tall with pruning. Otherwise, it can grow 12 to 15 feet tall.
Come to Yamagami's Nursery for all your edible gardening needs. Let our Nursery Pros guide you to many successful and happy harvests!
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Dr. Earth to the Rescue!
The good news about all the rain we've had is that it has broken the back of the consecutive drought years and, in the process, leached the salts from our alkaline clay soil. The bad news is that it has also leached valuable nutrients, notably nitrogen, from our soil leaving your garden HUNGRY. Hence, the need for feed! Don't go for the garden fast food, the instant green and additional harmful salts of chemical fertilizers. Go for Dr. Earth fertilizers, the perfect health food solution. They are all-organic, slow to release, contain beneficial soil organisms and feed your soil as well as your plants.
Lawns and groundcovers will green up and prosper with an application of Dr. Earth Supernatural. It is pelletized so that it doesn't need to be "dug-in" to the soil but can broadcast directly over the top. Use Dr. Earth All Purpose Fertilizer on established landscape shrubs and trees. Dig it in a bit and mulch over it for best results. Hungry, yellowish citrus not only needs Dr. Earth Fruit and Citrus fertilizer, it needs the extra nutrients found in GROWMORE Citrus Growers Blend applied as a foliar spray. Follow our FREE Planting guides for all your new plantings.
This doesn't mean you should simply fertilize everything in sight. Many plants fall into the broad category of specialty plants because they have special needs. Some specialty plants, including cacti, succulents, and native plants, have little or no need for fertilizer but may really appreciate GROWMORE Granular Soil Sulfur to acidify the soil. Ask one of our knowledgeable Nursery Pros about the best fertilizers for your own garden's individual needs. Water well before and after applying any fertilizer or apply just before a rain.
If you would like expert fertilizer or gardening advice at your home, Yamagami's Nursery does offer a Landscape Consultation Service as well as a Plant Doctor Service. Call us at (408) 252-3347 or see YamagamisNursery.com for details. We will be happy to help you select the best plants, amendments, and fertilizers for your specific landscape. Fulfill your garden's need for feed with Dr. Earth and Yamagami's Nursery. We are here when you want to succeed the first time!
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Steve Goto |
Saturday and Sunday, April 10th and
11th
Early Season Tomatoes with Steve Goto. Find organically
grown early season tomato plants selected by Steve. Free classes for success
at 10 AM and 2 PM both days. |
Stuart Shim |
Saturday, April 17th at 10 AM and
1 PM
Pumpkinmania - Growing Giant Pumpkins Class with
Stuart Shim. Free seed and growing instructions are included.
Classes are FREE but space is limited. Please call us at (408) 252-3347 or come in to reserve your space. Walk-ins will only be allowed as space permits. |
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Saturday, April 17th from 10 AM to
2 PM
Cupertino's Earth Day Festival--Free! Visit
Yamagami's
booth! Cupertino City Hall Plaza, 1030 Torre Ave., Cupertino. This is the 40th
Anniversary of Earth Day!
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- 1 (10-ounce) can chicken broth
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (adjust more or less to taste)
- 1
red bell pepper, chopped
- 1
10-12 oz can diced tomatoes, drained
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter
- 3 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil (or to 1/4 inch in skillet)
- 9 corn tortillas
- 3 3/4 cups shredded jack cheese
- 3 cups cooked chicken
- white or Spanish rice
- slivered almonds
Step by Step:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Place 2/3 cup chicken broth in a large microwavable measuring cup, and heat until simmering, about 2 minutes; add raisins to broth to soften.
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat; add onion and sauté until translucent.
- Turn heat to medium; add garlic, chili powder, cumin, cinnamon and cayenne, stirring for 30-60 seconds or until spices begin to toast.
- Add chopped red pepper and softened raisins and stir for 1-2 minutes, until pepper is soft and flavors have begun to fully meld.
- Add canned tomatoes, chicken broth and peanut butter; add chopped chocolate and stir until combined. Turn heat down to low so chocolate does not burn.
- Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring constantly, careful to not burn chocolate. Remove from heat and cool slightly, about 5 minutes.
- Place into blender and purée until smooth; set aside, covered. (Can be frozen at this point for later use.)
- Wipe skillet clean. Pour vegetable oil into skillet, to a depth of about 1/4 inch, heating over medium-high heat.
- Fry tortillas, one at a time, just a few seconds on each side. Transfer tortillas to paper towels to drain.
- Butter or nonstick spray a shallow, 2-quart casserole dish; place 3 prepared tortillas, overlapping as necessary, along the bottom of the dish.
- Layer 1 cup of chicken atop tortillas; ladle about 1/4 of the sauce onto the chicken.
- Add about 1 cup shredded cheese and top with 3 more tortillas.
- Layer 1 cup chicken, 1/4 of the sauce and 1 cup shredded cheese.
- Top with remaining tortillas, chicken, mole sauce and cheese.
- Cover casserole with foil coated with nonstick spray face down.
- Bake at 350° for about 30 minutes. Cool chicken tortilla casserole slightly before serving.
- Garnish with sliced almonds and serve with white or Spanish rice.
Yield: 6 servings
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"The very best for your
container gardens!"
Since 1948, Yamagami's
Nursery has been committed to the promotion of beauty and the plants,
products and friendly, professional support needed to attain and
maintain that Beauty. In my parents' footsteps (and Taro Yamagami's
before them), I promise to continue that tradition. I invite you
to visit us in the nursery and on our website, yamagamisnursery.com
for help in making your yard into a beautiful garden.
Thanks for visiting,
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Telephone:
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Address:
1361 S. De Anza Blvd
Cupertino, CA 95014
Hours:
7 Days a Week:
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