Last week was short and sweet. This week will be super short and super sweet. WITH ZOMBIES!
- Garden Center Magazine: Internationally recognized Heronswood Nursery up for auction after closing 6 years ago.
- This story caused me considerable grief for DAYS after reading it, and I’m still not really over it. From the New York Times: The tomato, though a fruit to botanists, has been decreed a vegetable by the United States Supreme Court. The piece explains that this decision makes perfect sense, because after all, the tomato shares 92% of its DNA with the potato, which is a vegetable. OMG! WTF? First of all, if you follow that logic, we are apes. Second of all, the US Supreme Court can’t “decree” the tomato a vegetable. Just kill me.
- The First Lady has published a gardening book, American Grown. A lot of garden communicators and other industry types are pretty excited about this and think it could cause a real boost in interest in growing vegetables.
- The Northeast Regional Climate Center and Cornell Entomology have come out with a model for projecting mosquito abundance. It’s really pretty interesting, and might be something your customers would want to know about.
- Via our pals at Cornell Plantations: Here’s an iOS app that tells you when your houseplant needs water, more sun or shade, and nutrition. The app is free, and the wifi sensor that you put in your houseplant’s pot is about $125. Plus shipping. From Europe. Add $37.50. $162.50 could buy a LOT of houseplants.
- I love Mary Gray’s Black Walnut Dispatch. This is just a little post about a painting, hundreds of years old, that depicts common weeds you might find today in your own back yard.
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