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Garden In A Bag
Garden In Bag makes growing a garden very easy. We put everything you need all in one bag. This kit lets you grow fresh plants in a windowsill or any sunny spot indoors, year-round, directly in the leak-proof bag.
Select your type of plant:
Catnip
Grow Organic Catnip {Nepeta cataria} in a windowsill or any sunny spot indoors, year-round, directly in the leak proof bag. A member of the mint family, catnip attracts cats domestic and wild. If fresh, the leaves and stems need bruising to release their oils or you can dry and crush them as a special treat and to help relieve boredom.
Includes: organic seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, hand-tied ribbon, and directions.
Chives
Chives {Allium schoenoprasum} are a versatile culinary herb used in potatoes, quiche, fish, soups and pancakes. The flowers are also edible and have a mild garlic flavor.
Includes: organic seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
Cilantro
Cilantro {Coriandrum sativum} is common in Asian, Indian, Mediterranean, Mexican, African and even Scandinavian cuisine. Fresh leaves and dried seeds are most commonly used in cooking and have very different flavors.
Includes: organic seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
English Thyme
Thyme {Thymus vulgaris} is versatile herb used in soups, stews, meats, fish and cheese. Thyme is typically used fresh as a sprig or the leaves are removed from the woody steam and chopped.
Includes: organic seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
Feathery Dill
Feathery Dill {Anethum graveolens} is a culinary herb with a fresh flavor of licorice and parsley. Dill makes a delicious accent to fish, eggs, vegetables, cheeses and soups.
Includes: organic seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
Good Luck Clovers
Organic Good Luck {Clover, Trifolium pratense} Grow Good Luck clovers on a windowsill or any sunny spot indoors, yearround, directly in the leak proof bag. While most plant clusters will have three leaves, you might be lucky enough to find a fourth to add to your luck. An easy to grow beautiful plant that will reach 6-8 inches in height.
Includes: organic seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday {Viola, Viola cornuta - aka Pansy} Grow fresh violas in a windowsill or any sunny spot indoors, year-round, directly in the leak proof bag and bring thoughtful birthday wishes in the language of flowers. They are hearty plants and easy to grow. Their blooms are edible and can add color to a salad or rice dish.
Includes: seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
It's A Boy
It's a Boy! {Forget-me-not, Myosotis oblongata} Celebrate a birth with a flower of sky-blue color with tiny yellow centers. It forms a mound of fuzzy foliage that grows to 6" in height. When in bloom, it bears clusters of flowers that uncurl as the flower buds open. Complete to grow kit.
Includes: seed, growing medium, coconut husks for drainage, and directions. Perfect for shower favors too!
It's A Girl
It's a Girl! {Zinnia, Zinnia elegans} Dwarf zinnias are easy to grow, beautiful plants with multi petaled flowers that bloom in a variety of bold colors. Zinnias have a long blooming season from spring through autumn. To encourage more blossoms, pinch off old blooms.
Includes: seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions. Perfect for shower favors too!
Italian Parsley
Italian Parsley {Petroselinum crispum} is a full-flavored, flat leaved, parsley has a sweet, earthy, celery flavor that is rich in minerals. Simply pull the leaves from the stems, chop and sprinkle over dishes from soups to meats.
Includes: organic seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
Lavender
Grow fresh Lavender {Lavandula angustifolia} in a windowsill or any sunny spot indoors, year-round, directly in the leak proof bag. The leaves are intensely aromatic right from the start and said to have a relaxing effect. The flowers are edible and can be used raw in salads, added to stews, used to season cookies, ice cream, candied or even brewed in tea. Lavender pairs especially well with dark chocolate.
Includes: seed, growing medium, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
Sage
Sage {Salvia officinalis} is an essential culinary herb for poultry, pork, sausages, pasta and bean soups. The flavor is described as mildly peppery with notes of mint and is best used fresh but can be dried as well.
Includes: organic seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
Thinking of You
Thinking of You {Pansy, Viola wittrockiana} The name Pansy comes from the French word Pensée which means thought. A reminder in bloom that someone is thinking of you. Pansies are hearty plants and easy to grow. The large blooms will brighten any windowsill. The flowers are not only beautiful but also edible and can add color to a salad or can be a candied accent to cakes. Complete to grow kit in a leak proof bag.
Includes: seed, OMRI listed soil, coconut husks for drainage, and directions.
Custom Engraving Available
Add custom engraving to any cutting board!
Engraving Prices:
- 1 - 9 characters - $25
- 10 - 20 characters - $40
- > 20 characters custom pricing - call for pricing
- Costs for adding a logo/image dependent on size of graphic. Must provide a vector file, larger images may be an additional cost.
Does your engraving include a logo/image?
If so, please email the NOLA BOARDS project manager a vector file of this graphic. Vector files have the suffix .ai or .eps.
If you cannot obtain a vector file of the desired graphic, NOLA BOARDS may be able to offer image conversion services for a fee. Please email any relevant files to the project manager along with an explanation of your needs info@nolaboards.com.
How large do you want the engraving?
Please provide height for whole engraving.
Specify if it is the height or width measurement that you are providing. If you are not sure, please provide any sort of parameters/explanations that are important to you. If there are multiple engravings on one board, please indicate which measurement is for which engraving. Please be as specific as possible.
What font do you want the lettering in?
See the examples below for our standard options. Additionally, most fonts featured in Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, and Adobe Illustrator are available upon request. If you would like a font that is not one of our standards, please select "Other" and write the name of the font.
Where on the board would you like the engraving (see below)?
If you would like the engraving on the same side of the board as the NOLA BOARDS logo, please note the placement of our logo is usually in either the bottom right or bottom center.
Types of Woods NOLA Boards Uses
NOLA Boards uses only environmentally responsible and renewable woods in making our products. Here is a listing of our most popular types of woods.
Do you have questions about the differences in wood grains?
Visit our Wood Grains page to learn more.
Black Walnut Wood
Prized for its distinctive rich and robust color, black walnut is commonly used in furniture building. It is grown throughout the eastern and central United States.
- Appearance: Light to dark chocolate brown. Often the wood can often has a grey, purple or reddish cast. Creamy yellow sapwood is a common feature as well. Usually has a straight, dense grain, though irregularities are not uncommon.
- Aging Qualities: Becomes grayer and more yellow with age, but only moderately.
- Other Qualities: Strong, hard and durable.
Cherry Wood
Cherry is one of the most highly valued furniture building woods due to its strength, beautiful color, easy workability and the incredibly smooth and glossy finish that it displays when properly sanded. It is grown in the eastern United States, mostly in northern and lake states.
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Appearance: Light pink to reddish brown with straight, uniform, fine grain.
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Aging Qualities: Darkens significantly with age.
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Other Qualities: Highly shock resistant.
Maple Wood
Maple is valued by furniture builders for its workability, consistency, hardness, and easy to paint surface. It is grown in all over the United States, but primarily throughout the eastern states.
- Appearance: Almost white to light grey with a faint yellow hue. Sometimes features grey, fine, uniform grain.
- Aging Qualities: Darkens a little with age.
- Other Qualities: Medium shock resistance.
Sapele Wood
Sapele is a beautiful hardwood that is often compared to (and even marketed as) mahogany due to its rich reddish brown color and denseness. It is grown in tropical regions of west Africa.
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Appearance: Textured reddish brown grain with golden hues. Interlocked grain with a fine uniform texture and a nice natural luster.
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Aging Qualities: Color will darken with age.
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Other Qualities: Very dense and rot resistant.
Sinker Cypress Wood
Cypress trees are iconic in Louisiana, and are incredibly valuable to furniture and home builders due to their remarkable durability and rot resistance. The “sinker” in “sinker cypress” refers to how these logs were pulled from the bottom of a river.
In the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s, when the preferred method of transporting wood to locations downriver from where they were harvested was by lashing the logs together in a crude raft, it was not uncommon for these rafts to break apart and for some logs to sink to the bottom of the river. The cypress logs would lay there for up to a century!
The outer layers of the wood slowly decomposed, but the lack of sunlight and oxygen perfectly preserved the dense, oily heartwood. Sinker cypress is always found in the rivers and bayous of the southern and coastal United States.
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Appearance: Varies due to the different minerals the wood is exposed to depending on where it has been submerged in water. Usually the wood displays a rich, glossy yellow and greenish hue.
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Aging Qualities: Darkens to a rich, yellowish brown with age.
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Other Qualities: Extremely durable and rot resistant. Oily, almost waxy feel to the wood.
White Oak
The most widely used hardwood in the United States, white oak is grown primarily in the eastern United States.
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Appearance: Creamy white to medium brown heart and sapwood. The heartwood often exhibits an olive colored cast. Has an exceptionally straight and uniform grain.
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Aging Qualities: Does not darken much with age.
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Other Qualities: Nearly impervious to liquids and highly rot resistant, white oak has been extensively used for ship timbers, barrels and casks.
How to Care for Your NOLA Board
How to Maintain and How Often
Wooden cutting boards need to be kept clean and daily maintenance is usually a good scrub with hot soapy water after using. Do not soak your boards or any other wooden utensils in water or they'll crack and warp. Absolutely no dishwasher use! Some people use a very weak bleach solution or hydrogen peroxide to clean their boards after they've been used for cutting raw meat as a precaution against bacterial contamination. Depending on how often you use your boards, maintenance should be at least every couple months.
Everyday Use - Absolutely NO dishwasher use!
Simply wash your board with your regular dish soap at your sink and with a scrubber brush. Dry with a cloth.
Do you have questions about the differences in wood grains?
Visit our Wood Grains page to learn more.
Long Term Care (How To Oil and Maintain a Wooden Cutting Board and Wooden Utensils)
Before you start, be sure your boards are very clean. Give them a scrub with lemon and salt. The boards should also be dry before starting.
What You Need:
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Wooden cutting board, spoons, or other utensils
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Clean, soft cloth or paper towel
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Mineral oil or other food-grade oil
- NOLA Boards board conditioner - MINERAL OIL & BEESWAX BOARD CONDITIONER
Instructions:
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Start with a clean board and utensils. Be sure your cutting board and spoons are as clean as possible and thoroughly dry.
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Apply the oil. Using a clean, soft cloth or paper towel, apply the oil in an even layer over the wood.
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Let it soak in. Remove any excess. Leave the oil to soak in, overnight if possible, or for at least a few hours.
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Apply NOLA Boards board conditioner - MINERAL OIL & BEESWAX BOARD CONDITIONER in circular motion. Remove excess.
- If the board or your spoons feel oily or sticky, buff off any remaining oil with a clean dry cloth or paper towel.