It’s been a busy spring around the Cregg lab. In many ways, it feels more like mid-summer than mid-May. One of the items my students and I have been with is installation of the Social Media Designed Tree Transplant Study (SoMeDedTreeS). As loyal Garden Professor blog readers will recall, we conducted a Survey Monkey poll … Continue reading Research in real time
I know Linda normally handles quiz duties, but I received a couple of intriguing pictures last week. Rather than just tell you all what’s going, I thought we’d have a little sport with it. The photo below was taken last week ago at a container seedling nursery in western Michigan. These are trays of container-grown … Continue reading Monday pop quiz time!
This summer, I’ll be giving a seminar on “Arboriculture Myths” at the ISA conference in Portland, OR. I’ve been quizzing arborist-types for a few months now to find out what myths they would most like to see debunked during my talk. Intermixed with the suggestions of dubious products and questionable practices there was this question: … Continue reading Bridging research and reality
Last Monday a friend of mine stopped by the office and dropped off a couple of plant "kits" for my kids. I didn’t spend much time looking at them at first, but I brought them out that night when I got home to show to the family and…they’re really neat! Called Eco Plant Pals, these … Continue reading Eco Plant Pals?
The week between Christmas and New Years’ is usually pretty laid back around here. But not this time! Along with 22 volunteers, 3 family members, and 1 graduate student, I spent that week putting in 80 trees for a long-term experiment. My long-suffering family and I installing the last of the 80 trees on the … Continue reading What I did on my Christmas vacation
Round two of Season 2 is up and running! In keeping with the season, this episode is called “Real Turkeys.” I talk about some of my least favorite garden products and why they’re on my “turkey” list. We’ve also brought back Riz Reyes, who’s wearing his horticultural consultant hat in advising my podcasting engineer Shelli at … Continue reading A Thanksgiving Podcast
Blog reader Alan Haigh asked if we could start a discussion about tree planting recommendations. He sent along these guidelines from the Colorado State Master Gardener Program. While I’m glad to see that the consensus now seems to be that burlap, wire, twine etc. do not belong in the planting hole, there’s still plenty of issues … Continue reading Opening up a can of roots (or worms as the case may be)
In my last post I announced that we would be conducting the first landscape transplant experiment designed by social media. We have about 100 ‘Bloodgood’ plane trees in 25 gallon containers that are leftover from a recent nursery trial. The trees will be planted at our Hort station and receive minimal care after planting beyond … Continue reading Vote early and often!
Here at the Garden Professors we pride ourselves on being on the cutting edge of technology. In fact, we’re so tech savvy we didn’t even whine when FaceBook foisted a new homepage format on us for no apparent reason. So it’s only fitting that we offer you, Mr. and Ms. Garden Professor Blog reader, an … Continue reading Be a Part of History!
This is a tale of three plants in my garden that would make the cruelest of multiple choice answers. Heh. Hence the inclusion of all three in this post: a. Manihot esculenta b. Abelmoschus manihot c. Abelmoschus esculentus d. All of the above e. Aaaargh. Manihot esculenta is Cassava or Tapioca; worthy of … Continue reading Weird and Wonderful Plant Wednesday: Threefer!