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 […]
HUMMERT U – September GEMS
What are Greenhouse GEMS? Resource articles for all types of growers! Our information revolves around topics including: Grower – Information & techniques that growers can implement now for successful crops. Education – Concise explanations of necessary to know industry information for all grower sizes. Maintenance – This month in your greenhouse to maximize production & […]
Culture Guide for Poinsettias
Poinsettias are indeed a challenging crop to grow well. Their crop time is relatively long compared to that of many other crops and their selling window is short, usually just a couple weeks. I have always said that poinsettias are the most predictable crop to grow while, at the same time, they are also the […]
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. […]
Culture Guide for Garden “Hardy” Mums
Garden mums are a popular and relatively easy crop to grow. If grown outdoors, where they do their best, all they ask for is food, water, light, and a bit of supervision. Scheduling:Regardless of when mums are planted, all will initiate flowers with the shortening of days in late July. Garden mums are short-day plants […]
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, […]