Terranova Farm

Terranova Farm Organic farm in the Piedmont region of NC. Our specialties are tomatoes and dahlias.
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Sarah is a very knowledgeable dahlia grower and a super nice human too. If you need help growing dahlias, this guide is...
06/03/2026

Sarah is a very knowledgeable dahlia grower and a super nice human too. If you need help growing dahlias, this guide is for you. Thank you Sarah at Wild Vine Flower Co.!

06/02/2026

Support a great cause and get some great dahlia tubers too! Her website is open and there’s a big discount going on right now.

What is DIPG?
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a brain tumor that primarily affects children.

Again, it’s a great cause, go check them out.

06/02/2026

My friend Traci is hosting an auction style fundraiser to benefit victims and families affected by the paper mill explosion in Washington State.

Each item or bundle of items is listed in the comments of her post. Place your bid by replying to the comment on her post for the item which you are interested in. Do not bid on my post.

For example, if you want Askwith Minnie, find that comment, someone has bid $10. If you want to up the bid, comment with a higher bid. Go to Traci’s post and place some bids. Thank you!

What a difference a year makes. The golden colored dahlia is Clearview Emma. I wasn’t a big fan of her last year, she ...
05/30/2026

What a difference a year makes. The golden colored dahlia is Clearview Emma. I wasn’t a big fan of her last year, she blew a lot of centers, so I left her in ground. Sometimes plants need to acclimate to your climate/soil….before they show their full potential. She is gorgeous this year! The lighter dahlia is Barbarry Dove Cliffs. I am a big fan of Barry Davies work, and I am not disappointed with this one. Stunning. This was grown from a cutting from . If you get the chance to buy her cuttings, jump on it. They are top tier. Thank you Marilee.

Not all dahlia seedlings are released but may be keepers. Why? These two are seedlings that I leave in ground. I dug t...
05/28/2026

Not all dahlia seedlings are released but may be keepers. Why? These two are seedlings that I leave in ground. I dug them once, thought about tossing, but instead planted them where they could stay. They make nice, healthy plants, bloom in the heat and make nice cut flowers. The dark one is Bella Donna, the red one never received a real name but was just called Rusty Red. They are both blooming now. And both have nice, long stems. I cull ruthlessly, but these I keep. I like the colors and the plants themselves.

I left this seedling in the ground last year because I wasn’t sure if I liked it. It’s blooming now, what do you think? ...
05/24/2026

I left this seedling in the ground last year because I wasn’t sure if I liked it. It’s blooming now, what do you think?

P.S…… her blooms cup in the evenings

05/21/2026

Leaffooted bugs can ruin a late-season vegetable garden!! Like stink bugs, which feed in a similar manner, leaffooted bugs attack a wide range of garden vegetables including, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra, peas, and beans.

They are especially damaging to tomatoes and they love tomatillios. Damage is caused primarily by the highly mobile adults, which feed on fruit with their piercing-sucking mouthparts, injecting their toxic saliva in the process and causing soft, sunken spots in the fruit. In addition, even mildly damaged fruit will often have an off taste. Also like stink bugs, leaffooted bugs have a distinctive, unpleasant odor, and they tend to congregate in groups.

Adults make a loud buzzing sound as they fly, and gardeners who are busy picking vegetables are often startled by the sound and sometimes mistake these for bees or wasps. The nymphs are reddish orange with black legs.

Infestations are highest in late summer and fall because they have already completed one or more generations and especially because adults are attracted to lush, productive vegetable gardens as they are flying from nearby, and not so nearby, weeds and row crops that have matured and are no longer suitable hosts.

Control: Spraying with an effective insecticide to directly contact as many insects as possible is the key to successfully controlling leaffooted bugs. Plan on spraying every 7 to 10 days once you begin to see, or hear, or smell, significant numbers of adults in the garden.

Because adults often fly out of the garden when disturbed (when they hear you coming with the sprayer) only to return later, spraying early in the morning, when temperatures are cooler and cold-blooded insects move more slowly, can help improve control.

Because treatment is most often needed during the harvest period, it is important to choose insecticides with short pre-harvest intervals (PHIs) and to coordinate your spraying and picking schedule. Zeta-cypermethrin (GardenTech Sevin Insect Killer Concentrate) and permethrin (several brand names) are two effective insecticides that have short PHIs on most garden vegetables. See product labels for details.

Some gardeners use a trap crop of large-flowered sunflowers to attract leaffooted bugs away from vegetable crops they are trying to protect. It only takes a dozen or so sunflower plants to do this in an average garden. Adults are attracted to the sunflowers and will lay their eggs and produce nymphs there. But be sure to spray the bugs on the sunflowers before the nymphs can mature and move to your vegetables. Otherwise you will have a nursery crop, rather than a trap crop!

After a 95 degree day, these snaps and dahlias were like “pffft, this is nothing”, meanwhile I’m over here melting. But...
05/21/2026

After a 95 degree day, these snaps and dahlias were like “pffft, this is nothing”, meanwhile I’m over here melting. But I’ll take hot over cold any day!! Assorted snapdragons, the dahlias are Bella Missy, Bella Mia, Van Isle Mary and Eden Alice.

Eat your greens! Harvested this morning due to the wicked heat we are experiencing. This spring season has been quite ...
05/19/2026

Eat your greens!

Harvested this morning due to the wicked heat we are experiencing. This spring season has been quite unusual. Warmer than normal first part of April, then late scattered frosts lasting to mid May, and now temps in the 90s (real feel >100 degrees). Lots of wind which has decreased the humidity but is hard on tender seedlings. And dry, dry, dry. Water table is way down, grass is browning, ground is cracking (what we normally see in August). Mother Nature sure keeps us on our toes!

How’s your weather?

I was quiet for Mother’s Day. It was intentional. I miss my mother with her daily weather forecast reports, “you bette...
05/13/2026

I was quiet for Mother’s Day. It was intentional. I miss my mother with her daily weather forecast reports, “you better cover those plants tonight, there’s a chance for frost”. The what are you harvesting, what are you planting moments. Fix a bouquet of fresh flowers, she would say, “are those for me?”. Yes Mama, they are for you. There has just been something missing this year, no spark. Until Sunday, yes Mother’s Day. My great nephew and niece, Tucker and Daisy wanted to go see the garden. Daisy picked strawberries and flowers. Tucker saw the potatoes and said, hey Aunt Teresa what are these? Oh wait, I know, they’re potatoes!” That’s right Tucker, they are potatoes. Do you remember how we “tickle” the potatoes to see if there are baby potatoes? He said, yes I remember. Come on Daisy, I’ll show you. They both stuck their hands in the dirt and felt for baby potatoes. The spark started to return. Then little Missy with her little toddler legs ran down the hill to the garden to get her “stawbees”. She was pushing the netting away from the strawberries and shoveling those ripe red berries in her mouth as fast as she could pick them. Then she went to check the carrots. And just like that, the spark was back. Growing my own food and beautiful flowers brings me such joy. Seeing that spark come to life in our young ones, not only brings me joy but also reinvigorates hope for the future. It’s the greatest gift we can give our descendants…., the power of a seed. The ability to feed your family, to sustain life. So very powerful.

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768 N Main Street
Mocksville, NC
27028

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+13363185356

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