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Highlights of the August issue of Growing for Market:

•Oregon growers describe three pieces of equipment that have reduced the stress on their bodies, allowing them to keep their farm a two-person operation.

•Got weeds? Here's a beginner's guide to the basic tools of mechanical cultivation.

•How to grow - and use - that odd-looking vegetable kohlrabi.

•Don't shut down your greenhouse in summer; grow a tropical crop such as ginger.

•How to grow delphiniums, whatever your climate.

•The quickest way to trellis tomatoes.

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Recent articles

The most gorgeous delphinium varieties (in: Flower Farming Blog) Jul 29, 2008: In the August 2008 issue of Growing for Market, I provide details about how I grow delphiniums, despite the fact that I'm not in a particularly hospitable climate for them. I also include a list of my favorite cultivars. Click on the title above to see several photos of them — and if you're not already a Growing for Market subscriber, sign up today so you can read the article and get started with growing these beauties yourself.

Above: 'Guardian' blossoms are big and strong enough to float in a fountain or water garden.

Too much of a good thing (in: Flower Farming Blog) Jul 8, 2008: Some flowers are just so productive I can't possibly sell them all before they finish blooming. Here's my list of perennials that come and go so quickly that a small amount will suffice for most growers.

At right: Lysimachia clethroides is a bright, clean white for about two weeks in June — perfect for wedding flowers!

Organic’s big benefit (in: Archive) Jul 1, 2008: Converting the nation’s eight million acres of produce farms to organic would reduce pesticide dietary risks by about 97 percent.

Metal thieves target greenhouses (in: Archive) Jul 1, 2008: GM Pro magazine reported that thieves stole $190,000 worth of metal from Kitayama Bros. Greenhouses in Watsonville, Calif., in late May.

Penalty for fake grant (in: Archive) Jul 1, 2008: The former director of a Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) agency who offered nonexistent grant money to an organic farmer and a fitness instructor pleaded guilty to felony theft.