Eliminating Labor and Ensuring Consistency with our Pre-filled Container Services

Our pre-filled potting services help our customers in a multitude of ways. Typically, one of the limiting factors in our customers’ production is time. Whether it’s due to a lack of staffing or a crammed schedule, they simply don’t have the time or resources to source materials, fill the pots, clear the grow space, lay […]
How to Reconfigure Your Greenhouse Benching for Retail + 5 Design Concepts

Provided by: When you transition your growing space into a retail destination, it’s important to maximize your area to help your customers find what they’re looking for, make room for the right products, and create a pleasurable shopping experience. How do you strike the right balance between maximizing your production capacity while utilizing the same […]
Poinsettia Biological Insect Control

Poinsettias are like most greenhouse crops when it comes to pest issues… …insects can be a pest. The most common poinsettia insect pests are some of the most common greenhouse pests- whitefly & thrips and shorefly & fungus gnats. The basic tenants of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) are the backbone to build a sound biological […]
St. Louis Is AgTech

PGLS is proud to say that we share the same home as some of the most exciting and innovative AgTech and plant science research companies in the world. St. Louis is leading the way in attracting highly skilled scientists, students, entrepreneurs, and investors to collaborate and innovate within a centralized district known as 39 North. […]
The In’s and Out’s of Watering and How to Best Handle that Pressure by Mike H.

I hope this finds all of you settled in and preparing for the upcoming spring season with your greenhouses and fundraisers. The challenges this year have been incredible in so many ways, especially with all of us still dealing with Covid issues and policies. With the increased demand for horticultural products and plants, there are a lot […]
The Spring, The Bugs, The Persistence by Mike H.

As we approach the end of the calendar year we find ourselves planning and hopefully looking forward to the next growing season and spring fundraiser. Growing successful crops is the result of planning, scheduling, and discipline. While plants are predictable (much of what they do is stored in their genetics) many things surrounding and affecting their cultivation […]
It’s Time for a New Spring by Mike H.

The new school year (for most) is now underway with a wide variety of scenarios unfolding compared to the almost complete shutdown that all experienced as last year ended. Some of you are teaching in-person, some remote, some a unique form of hybrid and many a combination of remote, in-person and/or hybrid! Makes me dizzy […]
Connecting the Dots – Soil, Water, Fertilizer & Nutrition by Mike H.

Throughout my career, I’ve always said that “no two springs are the same”. While indeed correct, this is truly an understatement concerning the spring of 2020. This Covid pandemic has changed us and the way we do things. It will also affect what we do in the future while taking us to a new normal, […]
Spring Time Preparation and Greenhouse Checklist by Mike H.

This is indeed an exciting time of the year! For many of us, winter’s wrath (or at least the worst part of it) is past us, days are longer, birds are singing and the Earth just has a better feel to it. For those of you growing spring crops for fundraisers, depending on your location, […]
Setting The Stage For Spring Production and A Successful Spring Fundraiser by Mike H.

Well, winter is here. The holidays are ahead and a much-deserved break is drawing near. Prior to that break just a bit of extra work, if not already taken care of, will help eliminate some of the stresses prior to and during the next growing season. SETTING THE STAGE FOR SPRING PRODUCTION AND A SUCCESSFUL […]