Get your containers planted early!!
| | | Dear Viewer,
Looks like we averted much of the snow talk for the weekend. Hopefully we don't see it again until next winter.
To Find out more events as they happen check out the Ground Effects website. We will be having a blog on the main page to keep you updated as things happen.
| Come and Visit us at Sioux Center's Home Show
This Wednesday and Thursday March 25 &26
The annual Sioux Center Home Show is happening this week. Stop by our booth at the home show and we would love to talk to you. Come and check out what is new this year and let us know what you think. The show is this Wednesday and Thursday from 3pm-9pm at the All Seasons Center in Sioux Center.
| Container Workshop / Open House
Stop in Next Friday and Saturday with your containers and let Katie help you plant your containers. We also have a wide selection of new ones that are arriving soon. You can then let them grow in our greenhouse until the beginning of May.
Container Workshop Hours
April 3: 12-5:30pm
April 4: 9am -12pm
While you are in you can get a sneak peak of all the new plants for the spring and see our rebuilt greenhouse after the fire last spring. So whether you want to plant something for spring or just check out what's new, stop in next Friday or Saturday.
|  | Vegetable Gardening Facts
Thinking about planting a garden this spring?? We will have seeds coming in next week! Also we are growing some tomato, pepper, cucumbers, broccoli, lettuce, and herb plants. Stop by this spring and we can help you get you a head start on your garden.
"A single tomato plant will, over the course of the summer, yield up to 40 medium to large fruits. Your local supermarket is now selling tomatoes for 75 cents to a dollar each. So figure your single tomato plant's yield is $30 to $40 per season.
"A seed packet contains, say, 25 guaranteed seeds out of 30 total. Put the average plant's yield at $35, multiply it by 25, and you get $875 worth of store-bought tomatoes from a seed packet that retails for $3 to $4.
"Your return on investment? Better than 200 to 1, or 20,000 percent."
| | Happy St. Patrick's Day a week late. 
Who is St. Patrick????
Lost in the midst of shamrocks, green-clad partygoers, and leprechauns there is a story of a tremendous leader - Saint Patrick. That we celebrate a holiday bearing his name 1,500 years after his death attests to the greatness of Ireland's patron saint. Saint Patrick's life teaches valuable lessons about the power of forgiveness.
THE LIFE OF SAINT PATRICK: A STORY OF FORGIVENESS
Born to a wealthy British-Roman family, Patrick was kidnapped by a band of Irish marauders as a teenager. The raiders carried him off to Ireland where they pressed him into servitude, tending their flocks and fields. Isolated and alone, Patrick clung to his faith to endure the cruelty of his masters.
After six years in captivity, Patrick summoned the courage to risk escape. He ran away from his captors, surviving a 200-mile trek across Ireland to the sea. Upon arrival to the coast, he talked his way onto a shipping vessel bound for his homeland.
For More on St. Patrick Check out this article
brought to you by Giant Impact and Leadership Wired.
| | | Thanks for your time.
Sincerely, Justin Schuiteman
Ground Effects
justin@scgroundeffects.com
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