If you haven’t yet had the chance to check out our April greenhouse issue of Digger, please do. We have articles on the many varieties of coleus plants (PDF), techniques for growing the bluest hydrangeas (PDF), and why it may be beneficial to look at your greenhouse through a plant pathologist’s eyes (PDF). Digger magazine […]
Correcting a mistake
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As someone who has worked in journalism for more than 20 years, I’ve found that one of the worst places one can make a mistake is in an obituary. It’s the story of someone’s life. People keep them in scrapbooks and share them with friends and family. Unfortunately, upon receiving the new February issue of […]
OAN on FB
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Yep, some of you have noticed – the Oregon Association of Nurseries (which publishes Digger) is now on Facebook. Come by and say hello.
Ain’t life tweet
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Surely the sharp-eyed among you already have noticed, but it is now possible for you to get updates from Digger magazine on your cell phone, TweetDeck or Web browser! (Wait a minute. You can already get our updates on your Web browser. Well, now you can get them a different way!) How? Easy, you just […]
Follow the bouncing bills
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There’s been a lot of activity in Salem this week as Oregon legislators attempt to finish the session. Many of the bills flying hither, thither and yon could affect the nursery industry in a big way, from tax hikes to metal theft to property tax issues affecting hoop houses. If you want to track it […]
Toot
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I just wanted to drop an announcement in that we have exceeded 1,000 unique visitors, 2,000 visits and 4,000 pageviews since we started keeping statistics on this blog in late October. Thanks to everyone for dropping in. We would love to hear your thoughts as to how we could improve this blog, and you’re always […]
Learning to share with others
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If you look at the bottom of each post, or at the upper right side of this page, you will notice something new. We added a mouse-over “Add This!” button which allows you to share individual posts, or the entire site, via Reddit, Digg, Facebook, del.icio.us, MySpace, Mixx, LinkedIn, and a whole bunch of other […]
Milestone: Post #100
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Time to toot our own horn. We’ve hit the milestone of 100 posts since starting this blog in early August. We’ve been keeping visitor stats only since mid-October, and during that time we have had 241 unique visitors and nearly 800 page views, so we must be doing something right. With your help, we hope […]
What a week
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Welcome to everyone who read about the new Daily Digger blog either on the OAN Web site or by the mention we made in Digger magazine. It’s been a very busy week. Just to catch you up on what’s been posted this week alone: Columbia County voters support anti-employer immigration rule: UPDATE 2009 Oregon Heritage […]
Welcome to the Digger Magazine blog
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Welcome to the Digger magazine blog. Digger magazine is a trade publication that has been serving the Northwest nursery industry for more than 50 years. This blog is part of our plans to expand our Web presence. We will regularly be updating this space with nursery industry news for wholesalers, retailers and other allied industries. […]