Spring 2004 Trial Crops Ready for the Field

    Here are some of the crops planted in this season's trial.  Click on the thumbnails to view larger pictures.  Crops are grown in Speedling trays in a mix without starter fertilizer.  Plants are fertilized twice a week with a low phosphate balanced liquid fertilizer to produce excellent compact plugs.  Crops destined for full sun are placed on the trailers in advance of planting to harden plugs for the field.  Very few pests have been encountered in our plug production because of good IPM practices and greenhouse sanitation.

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Some of the crop plugs ready for the field or shade house. Celosia. French Lavender Annual Phlox
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Coleus. Agastache.
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Gomphrena. Hibiscus (3" pots) Impatiens Verbena rigida in center foreground.
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Plectranthus. Nicotiana. Petunia. Rudbeckia
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Regular colored foliage Foliage color of the Lime Showers series in our flats, as well as in the field (cultivar on right side of flat): normally a bright chartreuse colored foliage, but more mustard-yellow here.  Note some color reversion back to normal green. Zinnia elegans Zinnia ×hybrida
Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus)

 

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