What is Tee’s Plants?
Tee’s Plants is a specialty “weekend” nursery in Dresden, ON that employs environmentally friendly growing practices. Available only for a limited time in late May and early June, which is the optimal time for you to start your summer garden in Chatham-Kent. Everything available is ready to thrive for the season, and have been hand picked to deliver impressive results in our unique growing region.
Tee’s Plants offers many plants you wont find at a big-box nursery, such as an impressive variety of tomato plants, herbs, and annuals. AAS and record/award winning varieties, too!
There are a bunch of things I can help with that you can’t find at other local producers.
- Industrial Varieties – There are thousands and thousands of varieties of vegetables and flowers, and I want to offer you a different selection. Many big-box stores sell the cheapest varieties possible. Tee’s Plants prioritizes the capabilities of creative breeders, and seeks out varieties that are both new and popular in the industry. For example, the Tyria Cucumber. While it is a rather expensive seed, the price of the plants are undoubtedly worth it. Parthenocarpic abilities allow for several cucumber fruits per node without pollination, which produces seedless cucumbers! You will not find this characteristic at the store!
- Historical Varieties – As research and science develops new varieties, we must also take advantage of those that have stood the test of time. Varieties like San Marzano have historical value, with this one for example being the parent variety of Roma Tomatoes, increasingly used for paste beginning in the 1950s.
- Award winners – Get your plants from somewhere that competes! Not only do I select award winning varieties (AAS for example), but my own vegetables win contests using them! For example, I love having 2019 AAS Marigold winners Big Duck Orange and Big Duck Gold as part of the catalogue. Mountain Merit tomato won AAS in 2014, and has been a garden staple since! I’ve personally won largest tomato awards with Supersteak several times!
- Inherent value – Everything I have selected for you to pick from will produce impressive results. For example, if you grow a Tyria cucumber, you will harvest 20+ full sized, fresh seedless English Cucumbers throughout the summer in decent conditions. The ability for you to select 5 herbs for $15 is a true bargain, especially since most are perennial.
- Fun – Have you ever noticed how stores rarely sell pumpkin plants? It’s because they grow so fast! They’re unmanageable! No worries! My pumpkins are perfectly timed for your purchase over a 2 week period. Take advantage of a unique collection of pumpkins and grow something your neighbors haven’t seen before. Varieties like Dill’s Atlantic Giant is the Guinness record setting pumpkin by weight. Or, try this breeder’s newer variety, Dilly of a Jack for an interesting take on a field pumpkin. Unique pumpkins not for you? Neon or Sugar will give you that classic orange Halloween decoration!
- Environmental Impact – Tee’s Plants involve NO pesticides, NO herbicides, NO growth regulators, EVER! Many big-box nurseries often spray their nurseries (flowers included!) with neonicotinoids, a toxic bee poison! Tee’s would never! Tee’s Plants is also distributing free sunflower seeds to help support bees this summer. Lastly, Tee’s Plants accepts container returns for sterilization and re-use. Or, take advantage of our durable pots and re-use them yourself.
- Community Garden Alliance – Tee’s Plants believes that more gardens are the way to go. We help populate community gardens and distribute plants to some individuals and organizations who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford them. Supporting Tee’s automatically supports the community garden alliance.
- Local Everything – It’s a busy spot. Tee’s Plants doesn’t order plugs from other commercial nurseries and up-sell them to you like many of the others. Every single plant at offered by Tee’s Plants is locally grown after having been selected for extreme vigor and success in zone 6b. Your leafy friends from Tee’s won’t encounter any truck rides during their initial months, and will be fully acclimated to the sun for immediate planting when you’re ready for it!
- Direct Feedback Loop – Tee’s Plants is able to utilize the feedback from growers with a great eye like yourself to introduce an impressive selection. If you have any feedback for Tee’s Plants, it’s definitely valued. Please contact me at order@teesplants.com any suggestions you may have.