Join Purdue Extension for ‘High Tunnel Crop Talk’

What: A regular discussion of crop progress and current issues for crops in high tunnels and food crops in greenhouses.

When: Monday, March 26, 2012, 12:30-1:30 Eastern/11:30-12:30 Central, and every other week for the growing season. Dates through June: April 2, April 9, April 23, May 7, May 21, June 4, June 18.

Who: Growers, Purdue Extension Educators and Specialists, Students, NRCS Staff, Others interested in the topic

Where: Dial 1-866-492-6283 for audio. To see images and other shared resources (optional), point browser to https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/htct/ (high speed internet only)

These bi-weekly discussions hosted by Purdue staff will include reports on progress of high tunnel or greenhouse crops, and questions and answers about current production issues. Participants may share images of their crop by emailing them to emaynard at purdue.edu by 8:00 p.m. Sunday with HTCT in the subject line. During the discussion, photos and other visuals will be viewable in an Adobe Connect meeting room accessible via high-speed internet. A summary of each discussion will be posted on the Indiana High Tunnels blog at http://www.indianahightunnels.blogspot.com/.

Sponsored by:

Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

USDA/SARE Indiana PDP Program

For more information:

Liz Maynard

emaynard at purdue.edu

219-531-4200 ext. 4206

Indiana Horticulture Congress

I can honestly say that this is the first entry to a blog that I have written...

Here it is July...county fair time... and you are probably nearing peak production time for many crops. I hope the High tunnels have buffered your production from some of the "irregular" weather that we have received this spring.

It is not too early to begin thinking about what subjects that you would like to learn more about to make your high tunnel as profitable as possible with the least amount of inputs.

We are in the early discussions about the content/presenters for a high tunnel session/sessions for the 2010 Indiana Horticulture Congress...While January seems like a long time from now my quick research shows that as of this writing Christmas is only 168 days 10 hours and 33 minutes away and Hort Congress is less than a month after that!

If you have High tunnel/season extension topics that you would like to learn more about and /or if you know of good presenters for those topics... we would like to know of them.

Hope that you have a productive and profitable July...

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Roy Ballard
317-462-1113