Acres & Acres

Don’t Put it Off

Chris Beytes

While it’s tempting to slow down at the end of the year, don’t—in fact, do the opposite.

Cover Story

Transplanting Best Practices

W. Garrett Owen

Mastering the critical steps of handling and transplanting plugs and liners is essential for maximizing crop establishment, plant uniformity and overall greenhouse production efficiency.

Features

Defining Your Drip Game

Gerry Spinelli & Jeb Fields

How emitter flow rate and the physical properties of the container substrate determines irrigation run time.

Features

Getting the Best Response

Charlie Smith, Erik Runkle & Roberto Lopez

Can the addition of far-red light prevent purpling of cuttings rooted under LED supplemental lighting?

Features

Grower Math: Cost Accounting Basics to Boost Profitability

Bill Calkins

Rising input prices, labor challenges and unpredictable weather and consumer habits make it difficult for wholesale growers to maintain and increase profitability. Understanding the basics of cost accounting can help improve decision making and, ultimately, profitability.

Features

Poinsettia Insights

Nancy Rechcigl

Managing late-season challenges in greenhouse production.

Features

Rooted in Health & Wellness

Todd Downing

In 2025, employee health and wellness is no longer a perk, but a strategic requirement.

Features

Selection & Timing Make the Difference

Jessie McMillin

Building a profitable garden mum program begins with good genetics and the right product selections to fit your markets’ needs.

Growers Talk Production

Insecticides, Fungicides & PGRs, Oh My!

Tabitha Samuels

For someone who’s new to the horticulture industry, insecticides, fungicides and plant growth regulators are extremely helpful tools that can be used wisely and safely to help produce the best possible-looking crops.

GT in Brief

A Fall First

Jennifer Zurko

Ball Seed’s inaugural “Ball for Fall” garden event, held over two days—September 19 and October 3—brought in some 200 grower customers to look at how the newest mums, pansies and other fall-themed varieties.

GT in Brief

ASHS Presents Awards to Excellent Ph.D.s

Chris Beytes

We join the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in honoring the following award recipients, who were formally recognized at the organization’s annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, this summer.

GT in Brief

GreenTech Coming to North America

Chris Beytes

GreenTech, the big Dutch automation show, is coming to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia September 23-24, 2026.

GT in Brief

Major Dutch Grower Closing Down

Chris Beytes

Bunnik Group, the parent company of Bunnik Plants, one of the Netherlands’ largest and best-known potted plant and foliage producers, has announced it’s closing its doors as of March 31, 2026.

GT in Brief

Minnesota Gets America’s First A1-rated Horticultural Expo

Chris Beytes

Minnesota is getting the first major, large-scale global horticultural exposition in America approved by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH).

GT in Brief

New SAF President Named

Chris Beytes

Lori Wheat of Lafayette Florist, Gift Shop and Garden Center is the new president of the Society of American Florists (SAF).

GT in Brief

On the Move

Jennifer Zurko

Ball Horticultural Company; Dramm; Fine Americas; McHutchison; Rimol

GT in Brief

Paul Pilon Joins the Pace 49 Team

Jennifer Zurko

Pace Plant Health, a division of Pace 49, Inc./Pace Solutions Corp., has hired industry professional and our good friend Paul Pilon as National Sales Manager.

Guest Column

A Digitalis Tour With Kube-Pak

Lowell Halvorson

Kube-Pak’s perennial program is now three times larger than it was two years ago, backed by the large capacity of their annual liner and finished pot business.

Inside Look

The Basics to Finding New Inspiration

Jennifer Zurko

I need to find the tools to combat the writing staleness. And that means finding new inspiration.

JZ on D.C.

The Impact We Have on Washington

Jennifer Zurko

This was the first time that I was able to be a part of the press corps during a House congressional hearing.

Pest Management

Breaking the Rust Cycle

Dr. Janna Beckerman

Proven strategies to protecting ornamentals.

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Advancing Alternatives

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Seed Distribution

Ball Seed

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