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I'm working on the New Vision Forum program in Nashville, TN on January 30-31. There are a few seats we're trying to close out this week. Only 35 people can attend. See www.yournextlevel.org/NVF for details. Call me if you're interested at 937-302-0423.

  I am looking at purchasing a used greenhouse as my first step into the greenhouse business. The house I am looking at is very reasonable in priced.

 This particular house has 4 inch pipe posts embedded in concrete.  Has anyone ever moved a greenhouse where the posts are in concrete?  Did you pull the posts and remove the concrete or did you cut the posts off at the ground?  Or did you replace the posts?

IF you cut them off what did you do to re-anchor the posts to the…

Last Friday’s news hit me hard. Hostess was declaring bankruptcy for good. No more Twinkies®! Admittedly I didn’t personally shed a tear for the indestructible vanilla cakette, I never liked the stuff, not even as a child. But what about Hostess Cupcakes, Ding Dongs®, and Ho Ho’s®. Those little bites of chocolaty goodness are as much a part of my childhood as Yo-Yos and a Slinky.

What happened, what are the underlining reasons for the demise of an 82 year old industry…

We just announced the winner of our 'Like Us and Win' iPad Contest! Click to find out who the winner is: http://ggs-greenhouse.com/winner-ipad-contest

Does anyone use Daniels fertilizer in their injectors? Do you ever add any micro nutrients to the Daniels? Thanks

Hello! I am looking for a supplier for sm succulents and cactus. I would like 3-4" pots. and a wide variety of kinds. We have done Collection flats before the minimum order of each kind is to many for us.
So any ideas would be great. Thanks

I've struggled with developing a good return policy that protects my business but doesn't make me look like a bad guy. Currently I will refund by exchanging another plant/same plant of equal value after discussing why the plant died with the customer. I very rarely get returns but when I do, it's never been me who's at fault for selling a low quality plant. If it was, I would gladly refund. It's always been the customer who's either forgotten to water or overwatered. It never fails the first…

In this free online webinar, we're going to talk with a farmer about how she took a USDA grant and started a profitable farm in under 3 months. I hope you can join us! Register here.  

When: Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 11 am PT / 1 pm CT / 2 pm ET

Presenters: Crystal Boze, CEO, Green Winter Farms and Kevin Wells, CEO, LumiGrow, Inc.…

Visit the attached link to read Daily Press Savvy Shopper article on Countryside Gardens' made in the USA items.

http://www.savvyshoppertoday.com/dp-fea-savvy-consumer-conscience-0115-20120114,0,3235312.story

Hey All,

 I would love to hear from anyone who has had some good success with professional garden label makers for pots. We would be using ours mainly for plastic pots on indoor flowering & foliage pots and maybe for some outdoor also. The labels need to be UV, water etc etc resistant and would be used on a smaller scale.....usually making less than 50 of one type of plant.

 I have seen a finished label that measured about 2 1/2 inches long by 1 inch wide and contained the…

for sale Nexus greenhouse Vail ( A frame ) 3 x 35.6' x 100' gutter connect with a 10' under gutter hight 10' bays incl.3 single roof vent systems complete , glazing bars & caps and extrusions ( roof only ) , 2 single doors . no poly carbonate frame only greenhouse is on ground ready to ship ! grhs is 8 years old $ 42,500 contact Case Sperling @ 712-621-3732 or E-mail cmsredoak@yahoo.com

For sale Nexus greenhouse Teton ( arch ) 2 x 30' x200' gutter connect with a 10' under gutter hight steel structure only no cover 12' bays greenhouse is on ground ready to ship ! grhs is 12 years old $ 22,500 contact Case Sperling @ 712-621-3732 or E-mail cmsredoak@yahoo.com                       

I am partnering with Constant Contact to write email newsletters for the Horticulture Industry. Having owned my own garden center for the past 25 years, i do know the business. Just a bit of eFertilizer will make those customers grow and become more loyal. let's talk

When we first started marketing our microbial products we made the decision not to sell to the big box stores for a number of reasons. Most important was they would not spent the time to tell their clients

about the advantages of using all natural, non-toxic microbial products. This spring we worked with a number of nurseries and garden centers during their peak selling time to tell their customers about how to assure transplanting survival and to grow plants using less…

Some people know that I accomplish a lot of greenhouse tasks using Excel. I'll post helpful formulas here for people to use building their spreadsheet solutions.

1. This formula will look at the date entered into cell A1 and return the Grow week of the year.  Just paste this formula in a cell where you would like your Grow week of the year to show up.  Change the A1 in the code to match the cell that your date is in if it's not in A1. Cell A1 should have a date format like this…

GGSpro is pleased to announce the release of our brand new Technical Reference Guide for Greenhouses & Nurseries. Our guide has over 80 pages of technical information and photo's for identification about Insects, Disease, Weeds, BCA's & PGR's. It comes complete with recommendations from the GGSPro experts and our very popular charts outlining Recommended Products, Mode of Action, Active Ingredients, ROI, EPA # & Application Rates.

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