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The Post-Season Greenhouse Blues

Albert Grimm

Whether we admit it or not, we find excitement, pleasure and gratification in the continuous mental and physical overload that engulfs us during the seasonal rush.

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How to Sweep a Floor

Albert Grimm

Learning how to do apparently simple and menial work with attention and passion is a path to excellence.

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When Crop Disaster Strikes

Albert Grimm

There’s no learning experience quite like watching a crop go sour.

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Should You Hire a Consultant for Your Greenhouse?

Albert Grimm

Consultants help us not by spreading information, but by showing us what we need to learn.

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There Are No Shortcuts to Plant Wellness

Albert Grimm

Shortcuts in growing may be convenient, but they don’t serve the wellness of our plants any more than our cholesterol pills and blood pressure medications fix the damage created by our unbalanced lifestyles.

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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.

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Growth Factors

Albert Grimm

Before we can successfully change the growth of plants, we need to understand how each species of plant has adapted to their natural habitat.

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Molecular Cooking in the Greenhouse

Albert Grimm

Production recipes may work nine times out of 10, but unless we know WHY they work, we haven’t much of a chance to fix things when they don’t.

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When Things Go Off the Rails

Albert Grimm

As growers, we don’t shine by doing everything right, but by preventing things from going wrong.

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Last Chance to Learn

Albert Grimm

Suddenly, garden vegetables are a hot item again and I suspect that many first-time greenthumbers will find out the hard way that growing carrots is not as simple as Google might make you believe.