The weather department continues it’s easy ride into winter without the
severe winds and cold that roared into Ohio during the first week of
January last year. Ventilation of the cold storage houses is still
necessary on a sunny day to prevent fungus problems on the closely
spaced plants in storage. Now is the time everything is geared to
getting ready for spring including receiving of shipments of hardgoods,
transplanting in the greenhouse, cleaning, painting, producing signs for
plants and the new catalog... There is no time for any of us to relax
on the beach in Florida!
Some of the new technologies for this spring will be weatherproof boxes
containing a screen that will project informational videos on plant care
and new products and remote scanners that will operate up to 300 feet
from the checkout counter in order to speed up the checkout process.
New products will include more new plants than ever especially in the
perennial and annual flower line that in itself will create the problem
as to where to display all the new plants!
A new seeder with a germination chamber will now make it possible to
offer even more varieties of vegetable plants in 4" pots. The seeder is
a closed cabinet that is thermostatically heated by a heating element
submerged in water that creates at a warm temperature of about 72º - 75º
F which increases greatly the rate and the percentage of gemination so
much so that the seed flat in the chamber rarely would need the chambers
environment for more than a week. Other changes are hidden or not
easily seen but will serve the goal of better products and better
service for all.
Tom
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