Good morning. It’s raining.
Ball publishing has webinars on Spring Trials beginning July 30. There are three sessions, two on new introductions and “Marketing and New Ideas.” Sign up here.
After reading Sunday’s Ethicist column in the New York Times, I decided I probably had never filched a cutting and that it was definitely the wrong thing to do. Then, a few days ago, I filched a cutting. Very bad.
Also from the Times:
- “Gardening Advice for Aging Bodies” (part 1). Pace yourself, grow vertically, and used raised beds. Part 2 is here. My favorite piece of advice (from a reader): Don’t go out in the garden until after 6. I understand that for professionals this is not an option and that many gardeners love the heat, but if you don’t love it and you don’t have to be in it, by all means stay in the air conditioning until it cools down.
- This little gem of a story, “You Call That a Tomato?“, which begins “If you run out of things to talk about with friends, mention that you can’t get a tomato that tastes like a tomato anymore.” So true—an excellent, if perhaps somewhat tired, conversation starter.
- Lastly, “3000 Plants, and Then Some,” Anne Raver’s profile of David Culp, plant man behind Sunny Border Nurseries, with stunning photography by Rob Cardillo.
Not a big fan of About.com, but here are some tips that your beginning vegetable gardening customers and clients might find helpful: Top 10 Vegetable Gardening Mistakes.
Learned about this very useful late blight map from the Geneva Experiment Station’s Steve Reiners, writing about it for UGJ.
CCE’s Walt Nelson pointed me toward this scary little bit in Ball’s “Greentalks” e-newsletter about the prevalence of contaminated compost. Yikes.
Lastly, here are a few really cute garden center — or home garden — or other retail — display ideas from Green Profit’s “Buzz.”
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