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burning permit info

This site explains the circumstances where burning permits are required in Minnesota:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/forestry/fire/questions.html

String trimmer

The string segments that came with the wheeled trimmer were 47 cm long. I used 32 cm sections for trimming rows in the CG.

fl pla in CG

Four plants are flowering in Andrea’s garden this year. Andrea Southgate planted this experiment (aka inb2) in 2006 as part of her Master’s research project. Andrea and Jennifer made a photo essay about their plantings that year. These are the first plants to flower in this experiment–about 4/1500 in their fifth growing season!

files for planting plugs

plugPlantingInfoForKate.csv

emptySpotsForPlugs.csv

label info for Kate

This file, labelInfoForKate.csv, is for making new envelope labels.

Upcoming festivals and weekend events

After the fourth

The 55th Annual Waterama is July 19th-25th, 2010 in Glenwood .

Grant County Fair: July 22, 2010 – July 25, 2010 in Herman.

Hoffman’s Harvest Festival will be held August 13,14th, and 15th.

Douglas County Fair: Thursday, August 19 – Sunday, August 22, 2010.

fireworks on the 4th

Fourth of July fireworks on Lake Darling, just NW of Alexandria.


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festival in Barrett

Here’s the schedule of events for Barrett’s Old Settlers’ Reunion.

species that flowered when Echinacea did last year

Here’s a list of plant species that flowered within 2m of a flowering Echinacea plant that we observed last year. The list is sorted by the count of inflorescences we counted. Species in the Asteraceae are highlighted.

summer schedule 2010

We’re off to a great start this season. We’ve made good progress on our ongoing projects and folks are well on their way with their independent projects. We had better keep moving because the earliest plant in the Common Garden started flowering on the 21st!

Here’s a list of independent projects for Summer 2010:

  • Laura: Phenology of midsummer prairie plants
  • Josh: Movement of Stipa spartea seeds
  • Lauren & Hillary: Performance of aphids on Echinacea and other plants
  • Katie: Efficiency of common Echincaea pollinators
  • Ian: Flowering phenology and mating compatibility
  • Greg: Breeding systems in the Asteraceae
  • Gretel: Reciprocal pollen interference between Heliopsis and Echinacea

I attached a pdf file of our ongoing projects.