Acres & Acres

Frielisms

Chris Beytes

In celebration of John Friel’s 20 years as a columnist, I decided to reread his columns and select some juicy tidbits to share.

Cover Story

Not Your Grandfather’s Boiler Room

Jennifer Zurko

How market demands, new innovations and environmental regulations are changing how some growers heat their greenhouses.

Culture Notes

Forcing Seed Echinacea for Spring and Fall Color

Bin Liu & Cor de Jong

The seed varieties of echinacea from Kieft Seed offer shoulder-season flowering opportunities.

Features

A Dynamic Duo

George Grant

Tips on how you can get the most out of your water quality and fertilizer programs.

Features

Finding Funds

Mark E. Battersby

As many of the government’s programs that helped so many growers and retailers survive the pandemic exhaust their funding, where is today’s financing going to come from?

Features

Measure to Improve

Bill Calkins

Use consistent templates for each crop at each stage to level up your production and send amazing quality to market year after year.

Features

Producing High-Quality Liners With Root-Zone Heating

Annika Kohler & Roberto Lopez

In part one of our two-part series, we discuss how you can carefully reduce greenhouse air temperatures with the use of root-zone heating during the propagation of cold-tolerant crops while maintaining quality, not delaying rooting and potentially eliminating the use of PGRs.

Features

Service From Every Angle

Katie Elzer-Peters

Get started with e-commerce for wholesale customers.

Growers Talk Business

What Does the Future Hold?

Amy Morris

How do we predict current and future costs with inbound and outbound freight?

Growers Talk Production

Growth Factors: The Law of the Minimum

Albert Grimm

According to the Law of the Minimum the rate of plant growth is not determined by the most abundant growth factor, nor by the sum of all available factors, but it’s limited by the single scarcest of these growth factors.

GT in Brief

AmericanHort Announces Management Changes for Cultivate’22

Jennifer Zurko

In an effort to continually improve the event and experience for its exhibitors, sponsors and attendees, AmericanHort announced Cindy Lee and Bill Behrens have joined the association team to take the lead on managing Cultivate.

GT in Brief

Chlorpyrifos Banned … Does It Matter?

Chris Beytes

Chlorpyrifos has been targeted by the Environmental Protection Agency for a long time (residential use was banned in 2000), so it was no surprise the EPA issued a final rule recently banning the broad-spectrum insecticide on all food crops.

GT in Brief

Green Circle Announces Major Expansion

Chris Beytes

Two hundred and fifty new jobs and 30 acres of new greenhouse—that’s how Green Circle Growers is describing a planned expansion—the largest in company history.

GT in Brief

In the Bag

Chris Beytes

Visitors to Midwest Trading get educated by horticultural Soil Scientist Kevin Donnelly, who explains what goes into producing the various bagged goods offered by the Chicago-area horticultural supplier. The guests were on location to help the company celebrate its 40th year in business.

GT in Brief

June 22 Is Darwin Perennials Day 2022

Chris Beytes

Darwin Perennials brings back its in-person event on Wednesday, June 22 to showcase the latest introductions and educate perennial plant producers in The Gardens at Ball.

GT in Brief

Northeast Greenhouse Conference & Expo Announces Speaker Lineup

Jennifer Zurko

The Northeast Greenhouse Conference and Expo will feature educational sessions on business management and greenhouse biological controls.

GT in Brief

On The Move

Jennifer Zurko

America in Bloom; American Seed Trade Association; Eason Horticultural Resources; Emerald Coast Growers; Terra Nova Nurseries

GT in Brief

Peters Introduces a Product and Rate Finder App

Jennifer Zurko

ICL Specialty Fertilizers has introduced a new mobile app for its Peters line of water-soluble fertilizer.

GT in Brief

SNA’s Sidney B. Meadows Fund Awards $18,000 in Scholarships

Jennifer Zurko

The Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Fund, created in 1989 by the Southern Nursery Association (SNA), has announced the names of 12 students from nine southeastern universities chosen to receive academic scholarships this year.

GT in Brief

Vita Farms, ForemostCo Inc. Partner on New TC Lab

Chris Beytes

Vita Farms, ForemostCo Inc.’s partner in Guatemala, has just announced the opening of Vita Labs, a new tissue culture lab to “create consistent quality and availability to better serve our customers’ evolving needs.”

Inside Look

Home Schooling

Jennifer Zurko

What I’ve learned during my homeowner’s education is that you really have to research when you make a large investment or find someone you can trust to help you make a decision.

JZ on D.C.

A Congressman Comes for a Visit

Jennifer Zurko

In early September, Congressman Sean Casten (IL-6) paid a visit to Ball Horticultural Company’s headquarters in West Chicago.

Paul's Pointers

Let ’em Rest

Paul Pilon

Both plants and humans need to get enough rest or we both can’t be at our optimum best.

Pest Management

Efficacy of IRAC Group 9 & 29 Insecticides Against Aphids

JC Chong

Aphids are troublesome and a constant headache, but the good news is they aren’t too difficult to manage.

Pest Management

Training Your Team to Safely Work With Pesticides

Zach Bruce

With a proactive approach, you can help your team stay safe and keep your crops growing.

Under an Acre

Growing a Community Respite in the Garden

Laura Drotleff

Sweetbay Flower Farm, established in 2019, was based on a collection of gardens that Karen and Tony had built over a nearly 35-year lifetime together. Karen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2020 and succumbed to the disease this past August.

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