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(Vol. 75 No. 12)
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Acres & Acres
Two Musings | Chris Beytes
Technology on its own won’t make your product great. Or even better. So unless you can claim the world’s best plants or services, don’t get wrapped up in digitizing your message or going social-media crazy.
Columns
ANLA: Bob’s View—Pay Now or Pay Later | Bob Dolibois
There are two potential challenges to our industry that could take an edge off whatever optimism is emerging for the 2012 business cycle: diseases that can severely retard the market attractiveness of several high-performing plants, and an uptick in downy mildew on some varieties of impatiens.
Columns
Growers Talk Production: Seriously? Problems with Petunias? Again? | Rob O’Hara
A slight yellowing on the leaves appeared along with a lack of growth. How could this be? I’m doing everything right this year! Wrong!
Columns
Growing Ideas: Doing Things On Time | Dr. P. Allen Hammer
Growers schedule crops with daily production decisions based on daily observations of the growing crop. Those decisions can’t be made sitting in the chair at a computer screen.
Columns
Obsession vs. Diligence | Jennifer Zurko
People outside the industry may consider constant monitoring of insects and diseases obsessive, but I say it’s more like diligence.
Cover Story
Recognizing Viral Diseases | Francisco Assis Filho & Janet Lamborn
Like us humans, plants can get sick, too, by coming into contact with a virus. Get the scoop on the symptoms and how to prevent them. It could literally be the difference between life and loss.
Culture Notes
Growing Sensational Snaps | Jennifer Zurko
In recognition of All-America Selections 80th anniversary, GrowerTalks is featuring a series of Culture Notes articles on previous AAS winners during 2012. The following was taken from the latest edition of the Ball RedBook, which focuses on bedding snapdragons.
Features
A New Ally in Defeating Pests | John Creedon
A former grower gets to the bottom of how billions of beneficial nematodes can be the best ammunition in the war on thrips.
Features
Assessing Your Risk for Impatiens Downy Mildew | Dr. Colleen Warfield
Increased awareness of the disease has growers wondering about their risk. Is your crop in danger? Read on to find out.
Features
Behind the Business: Bogs, Barges and Uncle Sam | Chris Beytes
Each month during GrowerTalks’ 75th Anniversary celebration we’ll reveal little-known details about the birth, growth or success of a well-known horticultural business. This month: Sun Gro veteran John Fehr takes us back in time to the early days of peat moss harvesting in British Columbia, including the war years, when peat was critical to the military.
Features
Pest Alert: Rugose Spiraling Whitefly | Dr. Catharine Mannion
Don’t skip reading about this pest just because you don’t live in Florida. The rate of its infestation means it may be showing up in your area sooner than you think.
Features
Pest Management From the Past | Jennifer Zurko
To commemorate our 75th anniversary, we’re opening the door to the Ball archives, dusting off old issues of our magazine, and taking a look back at the early years of our industry. This month: how growers dealt with pests and diseases through the years.
Growers Talk Business
Houston, We Have a Problem | Gerry Raker
Let’s hope that as an industry we can bring to bear the same resourcefulness and ingenuity that the Apollo team did to solve their crisis in 1970.
GT in Brief
Ag Grants Includes Urban Farming | Chris Beytes
How hot is small, local vegetable growing? One of 298 recipients in 44 states to receive business development grants from the Department of Agriculture is Living Water Farms, a hydroponic growing operation that produces greens for specialty markets and restaurants in the Midwest.
GT in Brief
BioSafe Introduces AXXE Broad Spectrum/Herbicide | Jennifer Zurko
BioSafe Systems introduced the new AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide, which is formulated as an herbicidal soap utilizing ammonium nonanoate—an active ingredient is NOP compliant and OMRI listed for use in organic production.
GT in Brief
Dramm’s “Watering 101” Goes Viral | Jennifer Zurko
Dramm, a supplier of hand-watering tools for greenhouse growers and nurserymen, has introduced “Watering 101,” a video covering the basics of hand watering.
GT in Brief
Easter Lilies: Hot or Not? | Chris Beytes
Sean Schaefer of Schaefer’s Greenhouses checks over one of the 15,000 Easter lilies growing at his family’s wholesale/retail operation in Montgomery, Illinois.
GT in Brief
Ecke & FlowVision Partner Up | Jennifer Zurko
FlowVision, LLC and Ecke Ranch announced a new industry partnership dedicated to increasing the success of growers through supply chain optimization.
GT in Brief
Greenheart Sells Cyclamen Biz to Plug Connection | Chris Beytes
After three years of evaluation, Greenheart Farms of Arroyo Grande, California, has determined that the cyclamen business doesn’t fit into their scenario, so they’ve lightened the load and sold the business to Plug Connection of Vista, California.
GT in Brief
In Memoriam: Margaret Ball | Chris Beytes
GrowerTalks was saddened to hear that Margaret Ball, Vic’s widow, passed away this week after a brief illness. She was 90.
GT in Brief
OFA & ANLA Announce New Event for 2013 | Jennifer Zurko
Building on the joint venture announced in January, the American Nursery and Landscape Association (ANLA) and OFA–The Association of Horticulture Professionals are introducing a new event to be held in Winter 2013.
GT in Brief
Oglesby Launches Online Store | Jennifer Zurko
Oglesby Plants International is making it even easier to do business with a new online store that puts young plant orders just a click away.
GT in Brief
OHP Revises Kontos Label | Chris Beytes
The label for OHP’s Kontos Insecticide/Miticide has been revised to help increase product performance.
GT in Brief
On The Move | Jennifer Zurko
MasterTag; Proven Winners North America LLC; BooShoot; BFG Supply Co.; Netafim USA; BASF
GT in Brief
PanAm/Kieft Tries LEDs in Germ Chambers | Chris Beytes
As you recall from our coverage of LEDs during Horti Fair in November, this high-tech lighting technology is growing by leaps and bounds, with new installations coming almost weekly. And they’re not just experiments anymore; many are commercial installations.
GT in Brief
Plant Delights Co-owner Passes | Chris Beytes
Michelle Avent, wife of well-known North Carolina plantsman Tony Avent and co-owner with him of Plant Delights Nursery, passed away this past February after a four-year fight with breast cancer.
GT in Brief
Survey of Smartphone Apps for Growers | Annie White
The surge of smartphone applications is quickly changing the way we find, save, analyze and share information. With a dizzying number of apps on the market to choose from, our e-newsletter Inside Grower turned to its readers to share their thoughts and experiences. Here’s what some of them shared.
GT in Brief
The AIB Report: America in Bloom at the World’s Largest Indoor Flower Show | Doug Cole
GrowerTalks’ In Brief section now features a monthly update on America In Bloom. In every issue, AIB Board Member Doug Cole will provide the latest news about how AIB is being promoted throughout local communities and the industry. Doug is owner of D.S. Cole Greenhouses in Loudon, New Hampshire. (Delilah Onofrey also contributed this month.)
GT in Brief
Two Growers Use PR to Prevent Panic on Impatiens Downy Mildew | Jennifer Zurko
Costa Farms in Homestead, Florida, and C. Raker & Sons located in Litchfield, Michigan, have joined the fight against impatiens downy mildew by releasing (separately) press releases announcing how the companies plan on helping their customers who have ordered Impatiens walleriana.
New Products
New Products | Adriana Heikkila
A.M.A. Plastics Ltd.; Hort Americas LLC; OHP Inc.; Darwin Perennials; Northwest Horticulture; Pacific Plug & Liner
Pest Management
Controlling Damping-Off Diseases with IPM | Dr. Mark Howieson
Because disease spreads easily through irrigation and other common management practices, damping-off is a common disease complex encountered in greenhouse production settings.
SAF in the Lobby
SAF, ANLA Represent Ornamentals Industry at NAPPO Executive Meeting | The Society of American Florists
SAF and the American & Nursery Landscape Association (ANLA) continued their work on behalf of the U.S. ornamentals industry, as participants in the Executive Committee of the North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO) meeting.
Under an Acre
Reviving Rhododendrons | Pam Buddy-D’Ambrosio
Once he retired from shipbuilding in 1994, Tom York’s life-long hobby of growing rhododendrons became a full-time job when he opened York’s Hardy Rhododendrons in Bath, Maine.
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