Knecht’s

We are now selling firewood!  We have prime hardwood firewood which comes from Rice County - oak, hard maple, hickory, ironwood, and black ash.  It has been cut, split, stacked and dried for two years!   We have found that by drying the wood for two years, performance in an open fireplace is far superior and creosote buildup in chimneys is far less.   We will deliver it to your site! 

The picture shows a fireplace cord of wood - 8′ long by 4′ high.  If you need firewood for fires in the fireplace, or simply an outdoor fire or two this fall - you will not be disappointed with this firewood.

Our pricing for a fireplace cord - delivered within the Northfield zipcode is $195.  If you have any questions or need additional information - please give us a call - 507-645-5015.

We are often asked what a good tree would be for a site - usually the customer would like a fast growing tree - beautiful fall color - they don’t have the best of soil conditions, etc.   Almost without hesitation we can recommend the Autumn Blaze Maple.

The Autumn Blaze Maple is the most popular shade tree on the landscape market.  We sell more Autumn Blaze than any other variety.  It is a hybrid maple, Acer x freemanii “Jeffersred” by it’s formal name.  It will grow to be a full sized maple tree - 50′ to 60′ in height and can get as wide as 30′ to 40′!  It will adapt to almost all kinds of soil conditions and since it is a hybrid - has a vigorous growth rate.

As you can see in the picture here - the fall color is truly awesome!  We planted this tree as a small 15 gal container tree - about 6′-7′ tall and in less than ten years - it has grown to be a wonderful shade tree in this customer’s yard.

With the values that you will find during our fall sale - now is definitely the time to come and pick out an Autumn Blaze!  You can pick one up and take it home and plant it - or you can hire our crews to plant it for you.  Just as our sales staff for all the details!

Leif’s article in last week’s Northfield News addressed the many different plants that put on a color show in the fall.  Read on….

“In a difficult real estate market it can be an advantage to be able to show prospective buyers that the house you have for sale has some appealing features that set it apart.  Top quality landscape plants that also show outstanding autumn color can be just the thing to trip the trigger and bring you a purchase offer.

If you have plants that paint the landscape in eye popping colors be sure you take plenty of good digital pictures this fall, and assemble them into an on-line slide show.  Your agent can then see that this selling tool gets included in the sales materials that people looking for a home can look through and any time of the year get a real feel for all the best the house has to offer.

If your landscape is a bit drab in the fall and you think you may be selling in a few years, now is a great time to put in some trees, shrubs and perennials that can add some amazing curb appeal.  This is the time of year when you can visit your favorite nursery and see plants in their fall glory.  Don’t wait too long to go and look because the autumn color show doesn’t last forever. (more…)

We have officially started our fall sale.   All plants are at least 30% off and many are at 50% off. 

There are shade trees, ornamental trees, evergreen trees all available and in all sizes and price ranges.  We still have availability on most varieties of shrubs - with a few having sold out for the season.   There are still many varieties of perennials available as well - with about half of the varieties at 50% off and the others at 30%.  This does include the hostas as well!

Fall is a great time for planting.  There are still a few weeks for the roots to begin their journey into the surrounding soil, and then they’ll be “sleeping” for the winter as they enter their dormant period.  The biggest thing to remember with fall planting is that you should be sure to mulch 2-3″ over the entire planting surface including about 2″ beyond where you started to dig.  This will ensure that you new plant is tucked in well for the winter.  With fall plantings - the plants are in the ground and ready to start their new season’s growth as soon as the weather warms up in March/April next spring.  You don’t lose any part of next year’s growing season.

We recently donated 12 trees to the Old Memorial Field Park (swimming pool site) here in Northfield.  Each year we like to donate trees to a park or public place here in Northfield.  This picture shows our landscape crew, Jim Westlund, Richard Middleton and Todd Marnie finishing the planting of one of the trees.

This year, we also donated trees that were planted by the high school track between Bridgewater Elementary and the Northfield Middle School.   In the past, we have also donated trees that were planted at the Soccer Field park.

This is our way of thanking the Northfield community for your continued business.

Our spring bulb assortment just arrived! 

We have tulips, daffodils, narcissi, hyacinth, crocus, allium, muscari and scilla bulbs ready for your fall planting.  These will add a riot of color to your spring garden. 

We have tulips in several colors including a two toned maroon and gold - the Northfield school colors!  We also have blue tulips and gold, for Carleton’s school colors and black tulips and gold ones for the St. Olaf school colors. 

If you have a special event planned for next spring and you would like to have the school colors in your garden - plan now and get them planted this fall!

Bulbs can be planted safely anytime in September and October.  You should plan out where you want your bulbs planted and with the other plants in your garden that will also blossom in the spring so you can have an incredible color display.  You will get the best results with bulbs if you plant them in clusters of several bulbs together.

Yes - we’re open the whole weekend.  Our hours on Saturday are 8 to 5, from 10 to 4 on Sunday and we’ll be here on Labor Day from 8 am till 5pm.