Good day, gardeners! I hope this newsletter finds you healthy and well. A heads up. I’m migrating plant•ed to a new newsletter platform. You may notice some design changes in the newsletter over the next few weeks, but the content will still be just as awesome!
Here’s some knowledge and inspiration I wanted to share with you.
This daily light integral tool from CABA is pretty cool. Daily light integral is a measure of the photosynthetic light that hits an area over the course of the day. It pulls data from NASA’s Power Project to model. You put your email address in, and then you’re prompted to enter an address. It will then generate a readout to show you how much light your location receives on average each month during the year. This bulletin from Purdue University delves more into what daily light integral is, and there’s some handy charts to determine how much light different species need.
This article in The Seattle Times details how native tribes used trees without destructively harvesting them. There’s some great illustrations to help illustrate the concepts of test holes, split planks, bark peels, and bent boughs.
If you haven’t started yet, now is a great time to start thinking about planning and ordering seed for next year’s garden! All-America Selections has announced eight new winners for 2024. The broccoli ‘Purple Magic’ is high on my list to try for next year!
This week at Ephemera Farm, we are enjoying the fall color of Acer floridanum (southern sugar maple). They are turning the woods in front of our house a buttery yellow. This tree is a great underused native that deserves to be grown more in the nursery trade.
As always, thanks for welcoming me into your inbox each week to share what I’m learning about plants.
Cheers, and keep growing!
Dr. Jared