This year, the Purdue Arboretum reached another milestone. In 2019—together with Purdue Grounds Department, Campus Planning, and Architecture and Sustainability Facilities—they proposed that 1869 trees would be planted on campus over a period of 5 years, as part of a Tree Planting Master Plan initiative. This number quickly grew to 3738 trees, which was determined…Read more about The Purdue Arboretum and HLA Student Volunteers Plant Hundreds of Trees at Horticulture Park[Read More]
Krishna Nemali was invited to present about ‘Home Hydroponics’ to Miami County Master Gardeners in Peru, Indiana this week. The presentation described the benefits of producing food crops in homes, introduced two different types of home hydroponic systems, and additional resources available at Purdue for home gardeners.
The Hoagland Lab joined the Midwest Microbiome Symposium hosted this year by Purdue from 13th through 15th May at Beck Center. Henrique Petry and Cristian Salinas, both PhD students, presented their posters on nanoplastics effect on tomato and lettuce microbiome and coffee root endophytes response to legume intercropping.
Vera Vukovic, Brandon McNally, Aaron Patton and co-authors published paper in Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management titled “A survey of ethofumesate resistant annual bluegrass (Poa annua) on US golf courses.” In December last year, Vera Vukovic, Brandon McNally, Cale Bigelow, Stephen Meyers, Aaron Patton and co-authors published a paper in Weed Technology titled “Ethofumesate-resistant annual…Read more about Recent Papers from Turfgrass Researchers[Read More]
Celina Gómez and Cary Mitchell along with OptimIA project colleagues from around the USA are in the Tokyo suburb of Kashiwa May 15-19 to visit the Japan Plant Factory Association, give papers about their indoor agriculture research, and to visit several progressive plant factories in that area.
Purdue Agriculture featured a story on the Jules Janick Horticulture Garden on their website: April Showers Bring May Flowers to Jules Janick Horticulture Garden
Additional photos, courtesy of Dhuha Mohamed, have been added to the HLA Research and Design Retreat Gallery.
The Purdue Boilermaker Vegetable Season Pass is back for 2024! Take a giant leap towards supporting the Purdue Student Farm. Sign up for the Boilermaker Vegetable Season Pass to get your box of Purdue-grown vegetables, herbs, and fruits! Once you have signed up, you have the option to pay by check or credit card. See…Read more about Purdue Boilermaker Vegetable Season Pass Is Back![Read More]
Hydroponics training is offered to everyone in May and June at Purdue University. Interested participants can choose either May or June session. There will be four classes for each session on Saturdays from 9am-4pm. Training will be provided at the state-of-the-art Purdue hydroponics facility located in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, 625 Ag….Read more about Hydroponics for Everyone Workshop[Read More]
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