February 2010, Volume 20 Number 2
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Vegetable
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On the Cover:
Boasting salmon-pink and cream bicolor
bracts, ‘Marblestar’ is an eye-catching
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novelty variety on the market. To read
more about new poinsettia introductions,
go to page 16. (Photo: Syngenta Flowers)
2009 national poinsettia trials
16 Poinsettia New Varieties
in every issue
By John Dole, Roberto Lopez and Jim Barrett
6 Editor’s Report
research
9 News on the Grow
8 OFA Names New CEO
26 Bright Ideas in the Works
10 Follow Managing Editor Paige Worthy
Research at Michigan State University is under way to improve crop quality through
to the Chelsea Flower Show
lighting and PGR use.
12 Ball’s Sustainability Report
By Erik Runkle and Ryan Warner
14 Calendar
crop cultivation
41 Product Focus:
Greenhouse Equipment &
34 Vegetables: Here Today, Growing Tomorrow
Components
Expect your vegetable and herb sales to increase again in 2010, but don’t stop there. It’s
time to leverage and attract more gardeners and develop them into lifelong customers!
45 Product Showcase
By Dianna Turner
49 Classifi ed Advertising/
culture connection
Ad Index
42 Perennial Solutions: Oriental lily ‘After Eight’
With a sweet, heady scent and enticing pink blooms, this Oriental lily columns
will delight consumers at all hours of the day.
this month in diseases
By Paul Pilon
15 Geraniums
44 Crop Culture Report: Pericallis Senetti Series By A.R. Chase and Margery Daughtrey
Available in 12 exciting colors, Senetti has amazing fl ower power and
an upscale look that turns heads at retail.
technically speaking
By Chris Berg
50 Height Control for Vegetable Transplants
46 Variety Spotlight
A recent supplemental labeling of Sumagic for use
Petunia, geranium.
on vegetable transplants has made height control less
complicated. There are a few other methods that may
48 New Varieties
be helpful, too.
Belgian mum, coreopsis, aloe, rose.
By Erik Runkle, Michigan State University
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