Hello friends! We are hard at work on the next Upstate Gardeners’ Journal, so this will be a quickie. Thanks for all of your great comments after last week’s issue. I always love to hear from you.
Jane
Let’s start off with some Help Wanteds:
- Two Job Openings at the Northeastern IPM Center.
- Reinhart Enterprises Landscaping and Lawn Care seeks a maintenance employee and a foreman.
And the rest:
- Cornell University looking to find new downy mildew resistant impatiens. This is an interesting article from a source I haven’t used before (hortidaily.com—let me know what you think of it in general). It seems that we are a long way from having impatiens back in circulation. Also, did you know that IDM was first spotted in the states in 1897? For a more in-depth read, check out Margery Daughtrey’s piece for AmericanHort that ran in March.
- Cornell Floriculture Field Day was held at Bluegrass Lane a couple of weeks ago. I was a judge in the container contest, which is, like, the most fun you can have, especially when it is neither 110 degrees nor raining. Here are the results. (Pictured: 1st place in the Open Division, Wittendale’s Florist & Greenhouses, East Hampton, NY.)
- While I was at Bluegrass Lane eavesdropping on other people’s conversations over lunch, I learned about this cure for poison ivy. From what I understand it really does work, but you have to pack the mud on and then wrap it in plastic and let it sit like that overnight. Worth a try. NB: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO EAT THE CLAY.
- Love when plants take over. A floating mangrove forest has sprouted from an abandoned coal ship.
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