Archive for January, 2009
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Jan
28
Posted by Gary Olson
A visit to Issaquah Grange is for more than the birds, but does have a wall of bird seed to marvel about. Bulk containers of various bird seed is found on the south wall of our main store.
Take the NW Blend of wild bird seed as a great addition to your yard. With a minimum of 50% sunflower seeds, this blend is an easy way to satisfy both ground feeding birds and birds that prefer elevated feeders. Rich in sunflower seeds, this will attract a variety of songbirds to your yard.
Other bulk items are Black Oil Sunflower, Safflower, Striped Sunflower mix, dove and quail – Northwest Farms Premium Mix, Pigeon mix, L’Avian Parrott -Parakeet – Cockatiel - or bulk seed. There is ZuPreem Parakeet, Parrot, Cockatiel, and Parrott and Conures bulk seed.
The Parrott
Photo from Flickr by digitalART2
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Jan
27
Posted by michael aguilar
While most sensible people are sitting out this onslaught of winter in the comfort of their homes waiting for the Super Bowl to start, there is a contingent, (such as myself) that feels that January 2nd is the first day of Spring! If you are anything like me, you’re still trying to work off the extra pounds from Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now is the time to get started on the preparation of your garden and you can burn a few calories to boot!
Your best friend for the moment is your rake. I like to have both a lawn (soft) rake and the garden (hard) rake on hand. It also helps to have a tub or yard waste container for all the debris. Once you’ve finished raking you can recycle the material in either your waste collection service or in your compost pile. Make sure to remove any large sticks or branches as they take too long to decompose in the pile.
If you are putting in raised beds or simply reworking your existing beds now is a good time to put down ground cloth. Make sure you are using a material that is permeable, so water can flow through. You don’t necessarily have to lay down the soil on top of the cloth at this time, but make sure to hold it down with large rocks, bricks or cinder blocks to prevent the “kite effect” when the wind picks up! Laying the ground cloth now is a big step in preventing future weeds. The greatest need for weed seeds to germinate is sunlight. If the ground is covered before they start actively growing, you’ve won 3/4ths of the battle. The other 1/4 is those seeds that blow in and start growing on top of the new soil. You can greatly reduce their numbers by using a pre-emergent herbicide. Preen (chemical) or corn gluten (organic) are two types that we carry. As the name implies, these do nothing to existing weeds but will zap the blown in seed that tries to germinate. Of course, if you catch them early enough and your garden is a manageable size you can always hand pull them, which allows you to get down and dirty with your garden. Gardens grow better when they get to know you!
Next from me: Bed preparation for specific plants/situations
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Jan
27
Posted by Gary Olson
Feed me momma.
Visit the quanset building at the Issaquah Grange Supply and you can see for yourself. Bring your friendly pooch as you do.
How about these for a selection?
Grainland Select Natural Feed Grain, Omolene 200 Performance Sweet food for competition and growing horses, Oil Sunflower Bird Feeding, Standle Hay Company Premium Beet Peel Pellets, Veterinarian Formulated Chicken and Rice low ash chicken meal, Well Solve L/S lo starch and sugar diet, Silver Corp Fish Feed, Country Acres General Livestock Feed, Mazuri Alpaca – Designed for all stages of Alpaca, Purina Mills Goat Chow, Grainland Rolled Oats, Purnia Mills Weight Control for your horse, Purina Mills Equine Senior for the special needs of older horses, and Purina Mills Strategy Professional GX – Purina Mills for chickens – Home Grown Poultry Feed – Flock Raiser,Grainland Select Natural Feed Grain, LMF Horse feeds low non structural carbonate, Super Supplement Horse Feed and Development Feeds, TACO – Timothy Alfalfa Corn Oats, LMF Showtime Horse Feeds – LMF Lo NSC Feed and Prime Time and how about this: Rock Salt!
Photo courtesy of Flickr and Flint-Hill
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Jan
22
Posted by michael aguilar
Customer Appreciation Day 2008
I am the new Manager of the Lawn and Garden dept. My previous experience has been in Nursery Industry Management. I am a Certified Professional Horticulturist, CPH so I can answer your questions about plants, insects, soils, fertilizers, etc. You can either stop by the store or e-mail me at michaela@grangesupply.com.
In the coming weeks I will dedicate time to answer any questions you may have in addition to writing about lawn and garden related items trying to be as timely and thorough as possible.
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Jan
06
Posted by Gary Olson
We are proud to share that this is the 75th year that Issaquah has been the home of (on) the Grange. We have been in Issaquah since 1934 and in its present location sincre 1943. We are located at 145 NE Gilman Blvd. Janet Payne, the Tack department manager tells people, “just go to the very east end of Gilman Boulevard and you can’t miss us.” We have a big fuel Island out front. Check out our extremely competitive fuel prices.
Our neighbors are XXX Drive-in (across the street), Boehm’s Candy (Next Door), and Issaquah Virginia Mason.
The Grange Supply Inc. was conceived as a farm supply co-op in the post depression era. Though we are mainly a feed store we have grown with the times and we carry an interesting assortment of merchandise. Good examples include: work and western wear * numerous styles of boots for the whole family * pet food selections that focuses on healthy and natural products for most pets or critters. * our lawn and garden department emphasizes organics.
Another fascinating part of our store is our bird seed selection. There are 20 bulk bins of selections of seeds as a start. Add to that the accessories and this store becomes a bird’s paradise.
What makes our pet food selection different from our competitors is that a majority of our proudcts are holistic.
Come on down and visit your new (old) “Home On The Grange” pardner! And remember you don’t have to be a co-op member to shop here.
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Jan
03
Posted by Simone Mauhl
This is a consumer oriented blog about the Issaquah Grange Supply. It is our hope you will find it an interesting public service. This G rated blog has a quirky name, part of our efforts to inform consumers. The idea behind using the word “undressed” is transparency. To undress something is to expose it, or make it transparent. The naked truth would be another way of saying it.
We are participating in the Issaquah Undressed Network. The undressed network currently has approximately 50 blogs focusing on neighborhoods, businesses, real estate, and topics. A visit to Neighborhoods Undressed.com will provide you an insight to this growing network and to the last 20 articles posted by our network blogs. If you would like to have your business participate, contact Gary or Simone here at the Grange and we can refer you to the leaders of the Undressed Network.
We hope you enjoy it and come back often. We will steadily add content relating to our Issaquah located business, our customers, and our products. If you have a story we can add to this business blog, email it to golson@(at)grangesupply.com.
Let us know if you find us for the first time by searching the web. If you haven’t been in our homey store, come on in. And unlike other stores, we invite you to bring your dog. The Grange has an amazing variety of products, many that can only be purchased locally at our store. Come in and browse around and be sure to visit this new blog often.
Sincerely,
Issaquah Grange Supply.
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