Digger magazine

Written to make you a nursery industry expert.

A rakish bunch

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Members of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers are in Portland, starting today, for their national conference.

Horticulture classes this fall

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Chemeketa Community College has announced several classes in horticulture, landscaping and agribusiness on its fall schedule. Among them are classes on growing media, green roofs/green walls, ecological design for water treatment, urban applications in ecological horticulture, and more. Check out the offerings on Chemeketa’s Hort Department Web page (scroll down to see fall classes).

PURS requirements suspended

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The Oregon Department of Agriculture passed along word that the formerly-mandatory Pesticide Use Reporting System (PURS) is on hold due to budget cutbacks: As directed by the State Legislature, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has suspended its Pesticide Use Reporting System (PURS) until January 2013 at the earliest. Those required to report their pesticide use […]

Can they have a volunteer?

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The fine folks in the horticulture department at Oregon State University asked us to share this information with you: Plant pathologists Jennifer Parke and Carrie Lewis, Oregon State University, and Nik Grunwald, USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, are looking for a few nurseries to participate in a one-year Phytophthora study. In earlier work, reported in […]

The New Frontier

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Does the mere mention of Facebook, MySpace or Twitter make you roll your eyes? Do you believe the social media is all about vanity, and informing people when you last brushed your teeth? In some cases, it is, but that’s judging a book by the cover. Services such as these can be very helpful in […]

An attorney’s view

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Yesterday, we promised you analysis. Today, here it is. Labor law attorney Ron Guerra takes a look at how the end of the No Match Rule – and the administration’s concurrent support for the E-Verify program – will affect employers.

No Match Rule to be rescinded in favor of E-Verify

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When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (under the Bush Administration) announced its Social Security No Match Rule in August 2007, there was immediate concern about its unfair and far-reaching impacts on employers and workers. The rule intended to crack down on illegal workers, and employers who knowingly hire them, by requiring employers to take […]

Weed all about it

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Garbage is a threat to Oregon’s beauty, but invasive weeds are worse. They damage the health of ecosystems. Now, thanks to a recently-passed Oregon law, you get the same credit under the Adopt-A-Highway program whether it’s garbage or weeds you remove. This article from the Bend Bulletin, published back in January, tells the tale of […]

The shows will go on

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Former owner Duane Kelly announced recently that he has sold the Seattle-based Northwest Flower and Garden Show – second-largest consumer hort show in the country, behind only the Philadelphia Flower Show – to Portland-based O’Loughlin Trade Shows, which operates the Portland Home and Garden Show and other trade shows. Kelly had announced earlier in the […]