Acres & Acres

Keep Calm and Garden On

Chris Beytes

I see three ways that our products are an antidote to all of the ills COVID-19 has caused.

Cover Story

Expansion Stories

Jennifer Zurko

Many growers across North America are adding more space. We asked a handful of them why and what they’re doing with their new structures.

COVID-19

3 Tips for Talking to Your Team Amidst COVID-19

Mary Westbrook, Society of American Florists

During a recent webinar, human resources consultant Glenna Hecht shared these tips for leading your team in the coming weeks.

COVID-19

Communications Strategies & Tips During Challenging Times

Pen & Petal

Communication, always key for successful businesses, now is as essential as agriculture itself. A few tips as you’re crafting your message and strategy.

COVID-19

COVID-19 Resources for You

Jennifer Zurko

For one convenient place to find information and resources on COVID-19, we’ve listed the ones we know of right here.

COVID-19

Need Help Holding Your Crops?

Bill Calkins

Ball Technical Experts have collaborated to develop a package of resources for growers forced to hold or delay crops due to slow retail uptake and order cancellations because of the COVID crisis.

COVID-19

New OSHA Enforcement Guidance on Respiratory Protection

FNGLA

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued “Enforcement Guidance for Respiratory Protection and the N95 Shortage Due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic” to OSHA regional administrators and state plan designees.

Culture Notes

Growing Dahlightful Dahlias

Maria Zampini

With their rich, jewel-toned flowers contrasting against chocolate foliage, these dahlias are a perfect alternative to mums or zinnias for a late summer, early autumn grab-and-go solitary or mixed pot choice on retail shelves as consumers start thinking fall.

Features

Developing Skilled Labor, One Intern at a Time

Julie Martens Forney

The labor crisis is an industry-wide problem without a one-size-fits-all solution. The answer lies in creative thinking and the American Floral Endowment is embracing the challenge. By investing in student internships, AFE is cultivating a pool of skilled labor that you can draw from, and contribute to, by hosting an intern.The labor crisis is an industry-wide problem without a one-size-fits-all solution. The answer lies in creative thinking and the American Floral Endowment is embracing the challenge. By investing in student internships, AFE is cultivating a pool of skilled labor that you can draw from, and contribute to, by hosting an intern.

Features

Fall Is for Perennials, Too

Chris Fifo

Start planning now to sell perennials for fall along with your mums and pansies.

Features

Flex Your Greenhouse

Bill Calkins

Without building new ranges, growers get creative using space during peak seasons.

Features

Trucking Best Practices

Jennifer Zurko & Bill Calkins

The biggest challenges that growers are facing with distribution and how they’re working to handle them.

Growers Talk Business

Never Say You’re Sorry

Art Parkerson

There’s a formula for a good apology that too few people know and every apology needs three things.

Growers Talk Production

Trade Associations: What’s Their Value?

Austin Bryant

The health and prosperity of our state and national trade associations, and horticulture non-profit foundations directly correlates with how in-line our industry is with the newest members of its Millennial consumer base.

Growing With Griffin

Good to the Last Raindrop

Virginia Brubaker

How to protect crops through prolonged wet weather.

GT in Brief

AFE Research Proposals, Scholarship Applications Now Being Accepted

Jennifer Zurko

The American Floral Endowment (AFE) is calling for research proposal applications for the 2020-2021 funding cycle.

GT in Brief

Energy Code Change Could Affect Greenhouses

Chris Beytes

Might some future code official require a Miami garden center to install a closed-weave shade system in their greenhouse to retain heat?

GT in Brief

Field to Vase Announces 2020 Dinners

Chris Beytes

For 2020, the cut flower promotion group announces four dinners so far scheduled, along with two more TBD.

GT in Brief

HRI Announces 2020 Grant Awards

Jennifer Zurko

The Horticultural Research Institute (HRI), the foundation of AmericanHort, announced the portfolio of research projects to be funded in 2020.

GT in Brief

In Memorium: Pete Pike

Jennifer Zurko

Founder of Pike Nurseries, William “Pete” Pike, passed away on February 28 at age 90, surrounded by his family and close friends.

GT in Brief

NewGen Boxwood Introduced to the European Market

Jennifer Zurko

Saunders Genetics, LLC of North America and Dutch company van Vliet New Plants B.V. have agreed to a joint venture that begins a process leading to the eventual sale of Saunders Genetics’ patented NewGen Boxwood in the European consumer market.

GT in Brief

On The Move

Jennifer Zurko

Ball Seed; BioSafe Systems; Dramm Corporation; Dümmen Orange

GT in Brief

Orchid Endurance

Chris Beytes & Jennifer Zurko

Two generations of Hausermanns stand still just long enough for GrowerTalks to snap a family portrait before they scatter to tend to customers at Orchids by Hausermann’s 58th Annual Orchid Show & Sale.

GT in Brief

SNA Scholarships & New Board Members

Chris Beytes & Jennifer Zurko

Now is the time to get your hort student signed up for one of the Southern Nursery Association’s Sidney B. Meadows scholarships.

GT in Brief

The Three Rs of Irrigation

Chris Beytes

The experts at CleanwateR3.org are always promoting their research “reduce, remediate and recycle”—that’s what the “R3” indicates.

Inside Look

Getting Through the New & Unknown

Jennifer Zurko

As I write this, I’m currently hibernating during a three-week stay-at-home period because of COVID-19.

JZ on D.C.

Congressional Action Days: Less Voices, But Still Heard

Jennifer Zurko

The Society of American Florists’ 40th Annual Congressional Action Days may have been on the smaller side, but the people who were there were still able to get to Capitol Hill to have their voices heard.

Paul's Pointers

Paul’s PGR Primer

Paul Pilon

Guidelines on the reasons to apply PGRs and the benefits they provide when used effectively.

Pest Management

Basil Downy Mildew Field Observations

Stanton Gill

Basil downy mildew problems in the U.S. began in 2007 in Florida during the 2007 growing season. Since 2008, it’s become widespread in many states and has been reported in Canada and South America.

Under an Acre

A Scientific Approach to Horticulture

Anne-Marie Hardie

Aaron Fields, head of horticulture and general manager of the vertical greenhouse at Eden Green Technology in Cleburne, Texas, is a self-described journeyman who adopts a scientific approach to each role, immersing himself in research and data to reveal solutions that will propel the industry forward.

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