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Plant Lessons on Stress

2/24/2021

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​     As we grow our plants in the greenhouse, we control the environment.  We try to keep stress on the plants low so they grow straight, uniform, and healthy.  We keep the temperature favorable, feed the plants properly, and control harmful insects.
     Outside in the woods and fields the plants endure the changeable climate here in Minnesota.  Cold snaps, heat waves, droughts, and floods all affect the trees and other plants.  Tall, straight, and uniform is not always the outcome in nature.  The result of the stress in nature can grow some amazing and unique plants.  Perhaps we all are the product of a certain amount of stress.
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Oh, What to Do as the Temperatures Approach 30 Degrees Below Zero?

2/15/2021

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​     The cold never lets us down, here in Minnesota; we always seem to get our share of sub-zero weather.
     There are many ways to deal with the cold.  Of course, books and TV might be an option.  Some folks sort-of embrace the weather by hunkering down in a nice warm fish house on a frozen lake.  A few of us are lucky enough to be able to enjoy the luxury of working in our greenhouses where tropical-feeling air embraces us.  But of course, the dog always figures it out.  What could be better that a warm, sunny spot on the rug, next to a warm air outlet.  It’s no wonder the canine breeds have survived.

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Dormancy to New Life

2/8/2021

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​     Outside in February, dormancy is a fact of life here in Minnesota.  A still-feeble sun sets upon a frozen, dormant, landscape.  Inside we have created dormancy in our walk-in cooler, where flats of seeded plants put in their required “quiet-time”, before being paced into the greenhouse where spring begins in February.  Now the magic of warmth and moisture, coupled with the light of lengthening days brings the dormant seeds of many native plants to a yawning stretch, as germination takes place.
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Spring in the Greenhouse

2/4/2021

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​     Outside we still experience a cold and frozen sunrise each morning.  In the greenhouse our little thirsty, wooly-worm mascot has discovered spring, as the greenhouse warms and puddles of water are again on the floor.  Yes, the groundhog saw his shadow and predicts more winter outside, but our little wooly-worm did not see his shadow and predicts spring to begin in the greenhouse.
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    A teacher, farmer, trapper, and greenhouse grower. He writes about the outdoors and the people and culture of rural America..

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