Happy new year.
- If you are on twitter and interested in following EarToTheGroundPRO in real time, look for the #ETTGPRO hashtag and/or follow me at @janemilliman. There are usually quite a few interesting bits that for one reason or another don’t make it on here.
- Google has been sending its advertising customers cards with seed embedded in the paper. This is a very nice idea, and of course hardly a new one, but I’m always very skeptical about this kind of stuff. What kind of seeds? Will the recipients know what to do with them? If they die, will that put the recipient off gardening forever? Have you ever grown plants from a card someone sent you? How did it go?
- Word of the day: Biophilia, “a natural bond between humans and other living systems” (if you are a Bjork fan then you already knew this). Here are some examples.
- I hate to break it to this guy, but winter sowing was NOT invented by Trudi Davidoff of Wintersown.org. It was invented by, I don’t know…plants? God? Mother Nature? And humans have been practicing it for a while too. Nonetheless, this is a good reminder that you can keep gardening all winter long. Do you have a newsletter for your customers? Home gardeners love this kind of thing!
- From the Grower Talks newsletter GreenTalks: promising research for vermicompost and its role fighting pythium blight right here in Avon NY, at Worm Power.
- Spotted by @IndyGardener: Botanists finally ditch Latin and paper, enter 21st century.
- I think naming anything “Top Ten…” is in itself annoying, which doesn’t mean I’ll never do it. Nonetheless, here are the Top Ten Most Annoying Garden Buzzwords and Catchphrases of 2011 according to Mary Gray, whose humor I’m appreciating more and more. The best part of the post is probably the photograph (no offense to P. Allen Smith—I’ve never watched his show).
- Nice story about WNY’s Ulbrich’s Garden Center: Family-owned Business Finds Success in Water Garden Market from watergardennews.com.
- How We Profit From Edibles: A guide from Today’s Garden Center magazine with some great strategies. Also, what will/do your customers think of Burpee BOOST veggies? They are reported to have higher nutritional values than other vegetables. I’m interested to see how they will sell.
- The New York State Turfgrass Association (NYSTA) Western regional conference will be Feb 13 in Bufffalo.
- Didn’t realize ’til cracking the catalog just now Baker Creek had purchased Comstock-Ferre. Jere Gettle is something else. Impressed.
- Everything you need to know about impatiens downy mildew—for growers, and for retailers. From Grower Talks/Green Profit magazines.
- Here’s a short trend report from Green Profit: What’s Europe Buying? (Interesting to note that the Hello Kitty plants appear to be gerbera daisies. We had wondered…)
- The iPad will prove to be the salesperson’s best friend—in some industries, it already is. Drafix Software Launches PRO Landscape Companion for iPad. From greenindustrypros.com.
- Just for fun: The world’s sexiest plants.
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