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A Fall Emphasis on Field 

 Cut Flower Production 



THe UNH Cooperative Extension is 

 organizing two late-August Twilight 

 meetings and a two-day October 

 Seminar on field cut flower produc- 

 tion. (All are listed in this issue's 

 calendar.) 



The August 25th meeting (5-8 

 pm) at Norm Porter's Greenhouse in 

 Lebanon will let people see a 

 good-siied field cut flower opera- 

 tion. 



On August 31 (again from 5-8 

 pm), the meeting will begin at the 

 Hillsboro County Extension Office, 

 then move to Butternut Farm 

 nearby. Topics discussed will in- 

 clude diseases, post-harvest han- 

 dling, and the UNH trial gardens. 

 And there will be a grower panel. 

 The meeting should be full of very 

 useful information. 



Then, in October, a series of 

 workshops on Specialty Field Cut 

 Flowers in Northern New England is 

 being held in the three northern 

 states. In Maine, the workshop is 

 on October 19-20; in Vermont, Octo- 

 ber 21-22; and in New Hampshire, 

 October 20-21. 



Still in the planning stages in 

 early July, speakers and topics in 

 New Hampshire include Andy 

 Senesac (weeds), Dan Gilrein (in- 

 sects), Margery Daughtry (diseases), 

 Lois Stack (new varieties), Nancy 

 Adams (woody plants for field cut 

 flowers), Vern Grubinger (soil man- 

 agement), Charles Williams (extend- 

 ing the growing season), Mark 

 Bridgen (post-harvest handling), 

 and Mike Sciabarrasi (business 

 management for the beginner). 



Information on location and cost 

 will be forthcoming. 



A Neur Regional 

 Composting Facility 



Effective July 1, 1993, the State of 

 New Hampshire has banned the 

 landfilling and incineration of leaf 

 and yard wastes. 



On July I, 1993, the Rochester, 



New Hampshire, Organic Waste 

 Composting Facility will begin ac- 

 cepting leaves, brush, wood chips, 

 and stumps. Other organic wastes 

 such as sludge and wood ash will 

 be accepted when the facility be- 

 gins operation in late fall. 



This new facility is being built by 

 International Process Systems, Inc. 

 (a Wheelabrator Clean Water Com- 

 pany) and Waste Management of 

 New Hampshire to service commu- 

 nities and commercial customers 

 wanting to recycle their sludge and 

 yard waste. It will have the capac- 

 ity to process approximately 75 wet 

 tons (20% solids) of sludge on a 

 daily basis. A shredder will be 

 available to grind yard waste. 

 Mulch and compost made from 

 mixes of sludge cake (14-35% dry 

 solids) and yard waste will be avail- 

 able for sale. 



The facility is large-, in fifteen 

 bays inside a 44,000 square foot 

 building, an agitator will mix, agi- 

 tate and move 22,000 wet tons of 

 sludge and 11,000 tons of yard 

 waste a year. A planned expansion 

 will give 15 additional bays of ca- 



pacity. 



For information about both 

 dumping and obtaining the finished 

 product, contact Andrew Bosinger, 

 Project Manager, at 1-800-682-0026. 



A New Publication 



A new publication that seems large 

 enough to be called a book will be 

 available from the New Hampshire 

 State Division of Forests & Lands in 

 late fall. Selecting Trees for Urban 

 Landscape Ecosystems-. Hardy Species for 

 Northern New England, a gathering of 

 information on trees appropriate for 

 New Hampshire's climate, is being 

 written by Mary K. Reynolds, Urban 

 Forester, and Raymond M. Boiven, 

 Regional Forester. 400 pages long, 

 dealing with 150 cold-tolerant spe- 

 cies — both native and exotic, the 

 book should be useful to urban 

 planners, landscapers. and nursery 

 operators. 



And initially, it will be free. For 

 a copy, contact Forests & Lands at 

 (603) 271-2214. 



(Another book brought to the 



TIPS 



From the Griffin Guru 



THE LAST THING YOU PURCHASE 



Very early in my career at Griffin's, I arrived at a customer's 

 place to make my delivery on a beautiful crisp New England 

 day. Looking around for someone to sign the delivery slip, I 

 found them all in the NEW greenhouse. 



Newly built, it had a full cement floor, new-style heating sys- 

 tem with electric valves to control the steam, new 20-inch wide 

 glass to let in more light, and all-metal benching. 



On these benches was a crop of geraniums put in just the 

 day before. Those geraniums were the darndest color black 

 and everyone had a water hose, trying to save them. 



The one thing the new house still needed was a tempera- 

 ture alarm sensor installed and hooked into the rest of the 

 complex. 



Have you tied in yours yet? 



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