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Re: How much do you tell your readers?

Title: Re: [GWL] How much do you tell your readers?
I'm researching a possible column about the Ralstonia bacteria in geraniums, but the focus will be on how the destruction of infested plants may affect availability and cost of pelargoniums this year. One of Indiana's larger growers nearby has had to clean out greenhouses of everything, including disenfecting the water system because it was a recirculating setup.

 I don't know the answer yet, but that's how I try to approach stuff with readers...what does this mean to them or their pocketbooks.

Jo Ellen
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, speaker, photographer
Director, Region III Garden Writers Association
Phone: 317.251.3261
Fax: 317.251.8545
E-mail: hoosiergardener@earthlink.net



I subscribe to a number of newsletters and bulletins that keep me up to date on insect, disease and various other 'problems' in horticulture.  Much of this information doesn't seem to trickle down to our readers, the ultimate consumers, and I'm wondering how much information other writers get and how much of it they pass on.  As examples...do or have you written about various types of potential contamination in fertilizers (heavy metals and more).  When whitefly was an endemic problem with Poinsettias did you inform your readers?  Have you written about the problems with diseases and viruses that may be endemic in the rose industry (or is this just a rumor).  And more recently, have you been reading and letting your readers know about the potential problems with Ralstonia solanacearum in geraniums?  How about the Asian longhorn beetle?   Sudden Oak Death (SOD)?
Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener
The Hampton Gardener is a Registered Trade Mark
(Published every Thursday in the Southampton Press)

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