This month, the Garden Professors have moved to a new website. You can still easily find us at gardenprofessors.com (bookmark that address!), but we’re no longer actively posting on the eXtension website. This change was necessitated by eXtension’s decision to restrict leadership to faculty belonging to premium universities (those paying a sizable annual membership fee). Since neither Dr. Gillman nor Dr. Chalker-Scott belongs to a premium university, and since both are founding members of the Garden Professors, we made a group decision to host our blog independently.… Continue reading this article “Welcome to our new home!”
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New Extension publication on wood chip mulches
For long-time readers of this blog, you know how much I love arborist wood chip mulches. Now my new WSU Extension fact sheet has just come out – feel free to share it with your gardening friends.
Your feedback needed!
If you value what we do, please take a few minutes to fill out the survey linked below. We’ll leave this open for the month of January but will need to close it then so we can analyze and use our results. Feel free to share this with other gardening aficionados.
Thanks in advance for your interest and support!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7R6C6FH
Check out Dr. Jeff on NPR
Be sure to read Jeff’s comments to NPR on pesticides and organic gardening.
California Flower, Food and Garden Show
I’m giving two talks at the California Flower, Food and Garden Show in Sacramento today and tomorrow: details are linked here. It would be great to meet some of our California readers in person if you plan on being there.
I’ll try to take some photos and share my thoughts about the show on upcoming posts. Maybe I’ll even find my Friday quiz topic lurking there!
Breaking up Tree Week with an Important Announcement! (Or Not — depending on how you feel about shameless plugs)
OK, here it is, my one and only shameless plug — because my publisher says: Hey! You need to at least let people know that the book exists!
So — I’m excited to say that my next book, How The Government Got In Your Backyard, which I co-wrote with my good friend (and old college roommate) Eric Heberlig, who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UNC Charlotte, is finally out.
In case it isn’t immediately obvious, I love to write.… Continue reading this article “Breaking up Tree Week with an Important Announcement! (Or Not — depending on how you feel about shameless plugs)”
Blog Survey Results, Part 1
I was gently reminded last week that I never published the results of our survey, asking our readers for feedback on the first full year of posting on The Garden Professors. All four of us are extremely grateful to those of you that participated, as we could use this information in our annual reporting and reviews. Thank you all for taking the time.
To keep this from being too long for our blog, I’m going to just cover the first two questions today. … Continue reading this article “Blog Survey Results, Part 1”
Mo’ Snow
Went down to Georgia to visit family, ended up with 4″ of snow on Christmas. Very exciting for them. For me, not so much. I had just left 6″ of snow that had persisted for three weeks and was looking forward to some sunshine.
Happy holidays to all of our readers, far and wide!
Windmill palms in the snow, Carnesville, Georgia, 12/26/10.
Annual reporting – and you can help!
As many of you know, we Garden Professors justify our existence as faculty members every year through annual reporting. Blogging is one of the newer educational opportunities that most university systems haven’t quite figured out how to measure and evaluate.
So we’re taking matters into our own hands. I’ve created a short survey to assess our effectiveness in outreach education in the blogosphere.
The more feedback we get, the easier it is for us to make the case for continuing this effort. … Continue reading this article “Annual reporting – and you can help!”
Happy Holidays!
Relaxing at the in-laws in Ohio for the long Christmas weekend. Hope all of our blog readers are having a enjoyable holidays. In other words, I hope you didn’t have to fly anywhere over this Christmas weekend!
I’ve been catching up on some reading including recent articles on invasive alien plants that should be of interest to our readers. I’ll share some thoughts when I get back on schedule next week. In the meantime there’s still another football game to watch this evening and another plate of my mother-in-law’s cookies that need some attention.… Continue reading this article “Happy Holidays!”