From Neil Mattson and Bill Miller:
We invite you to attend a free, informal open house at the Cornell campus to highlight some of the greenhouse research being conducted there. Come visit our trials and talk with Bill Miller and Neil Mattson. The open house will be held from 9 a.m. to 12. noon on Tuesday March 18, 2014 at the Ken Post Lab Greenhouses. Come and go as you please!
In addition, the nearby East Ithaca high tunnel facility (about 1 mile from campus) will be open to tour with Chris Wien from 11 a.m. to 12 noon.
Directions, parking and more information.
Greenhouse trials in progress
- Spring bedding plants growing with different rates of liquid, organic, and controlled release fertilizer
- Comparing different vermicompost materials for vegetable seedlings and transplants
- Cut flower callas and response to GA treatments and silicon
- Testing PGRs for height control of daffodils, hyacinth, and tulips
- Ornithogalum potted plants and response to temperature and PGRs
- Hydroponic spinach and lettuce
High tunnel trials – not much green yet!
- Anemone and ranunculus for early spring cut flowers
- Overwintering trials with dahlia and eucomis (pineapple lily)
- Check out the high tunnel structure where Mattson has conducted trials with finishing spring bedding plants with no heat
For more information, contact Neil Mattson at 607-255-0621 or nsm47@cornell.edu