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July 19, 2008
Night Insect Walk at OARDC Wooster Campus
8:30-10:30pm

July 22-27
Summit County Fair

July 28-Aug 3
Medina County Fair

September 6-11
Wayne County Fair

September 20-21
Barberton Mum Fest, Lake Anna Park

September 26-28
Norton Cider Fest
Now at Columbia Woods Park!

 



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  Dayton's Annual
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  • While supplies last!

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  Dayton's Fall Harvest Festival
Saturday, September 27
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FUN for the WHOLE FAMILY!

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Sept 6
 While fall has not “officially” arrived, some of the trees and shrubs are just beginning to turn color especially with the drought we are now experiencing that are placing plants under stress and making perennial gardens look tired.

Its not a bad idea to give your plants a good deep soaking especially if they are not quite well established yet.

Flower bulbs from Holland are just beginning to arrive so that it is a good idea to shop now for the best selection but I would delay the actual planting until October when soils have cooled.

Some of you have been “turned off” from planting tulips as they have become deer food!  The best way to combat the deer is to do one of two things:

  1. Forget about planting tulips all together in favor of Narcissus or Daffodils or as deer never bother these flowers
  2. If you decide to plant tulips, spray them with liquid fence as they begin to come up and repeat the application at least one more time.

Many but not all of our perennials, trees and shrubs are 50% off and are marked clearly by sale signs.  For those items that are not 50% off, the reasons are varied but usually we have just brought the plants into the sales yard from the production area or have bought in new stock from Lake County, Ohio in order that we have a good selection for our customers whether they are landscaping or simply are looking for that ‘Just right” plant.

Don’t forget that the sales list is in our store or you can find it listed here on our website.

Don’t forget that on Saturday, September 27th, we’ll be hosting our first Fall Harvest Festival that will feature craft vendors, hayrides, pumpkins, a food vendor, petting zoo and music by Frankie Spetich known as the “Polka King” of Barberton!

Check out our website a little later for information on the timing for all activities for our fall festival.

Hope to see you soon.

Tom

P.s. Remember that a fun way to celebrate the coming of fall is to plant or to place chrysanthemums around your home and that Barberton will be the “Mum capital” for the mum garden of over 20,000 plants donated by Yoder Brothers in Barberton plus all the other activities around Lake Anna the weekend of September 20th.
 

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Going "Green"...
 

A blog entry by Tom Dayton....
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July, 2008
In January, I wrote that while the horticultural industry is “green”, many of the practices of production in themselves are not “green”.

“Things” though are “a-changing” for the better.  At the nursery as I have mentioned before, we’re big into saving and recycling water in that our whole system is like one big rain garden in which “used” irrigation water is returned to its holding pond and lake from which it came and rain water that runs of the sales area, paved parking lot and building roofs is collected and stored.

“Reused” irrigation water though can be loaded with fertilizer salts that can burn plant’s roots and foliage making them unsaleable.

One of the reasons we have not had problems with high salts is that we have instituted a cyclic program of irrigation in which sprinklers operate for a 45 minute period, then are off for at least an hour and then come again for 45 minutes.

This cycling of irrigation times leaches less fertilizer out of the plant container into the runoff recycled water.

I first heard about this cycling method from a speech given by Dr. Hannah Mathers that she gave at the Portland, Oregon Convention Center in September of 2001.

Another way to cut down on salty water is plants.  Marginal bog plants have naturally colonized our return water channels and settling ponds and remove much of the excess nutrients from the water.

Plants “that do the job” range from Acorus, Red Osier Dogwood, Arrowwod Viburnum and a whole host of other bog plants that I do not know.  As a supplement, we throw a few a few water hyacinths into our settling ponds in which then explode and grow while they “suck up” even more nutrients from the water.

Finally, we are gradually cutting down on our water usage through the installation of more and more drip irrigation that uses much less water than overhead sprinklers.

With less use of water, our own lake water quality is elevated in that rain water is able to dilute more of the impure water that re-enters it from irrigation.

With less water usage comes less energy inputs as we must pump our water with electricity.

Being “green” not only makes sense from an environmentally responsible aspect but saves energy and money too!  I just love it!  Remember to do your part.

Tom Dayton

 


Plant Encyclopedia                          

  Stop flipping through garden and plant books!  Use our new plant encyclopedia to easily find plant names, descriptions, flower color, bloom time, pruning information, fertilizing information, insect & disease control, and much more!  All plants listed are only those you can find at our nursery, assuring you healthy, zone 5 hardy plants
 
Virus-Indexing
  Virus-indexing is one of the newest developments here at Dayton’s.  What is virus indexing?  Simply, it is the process by which viruses that cause plants to lose their strength and vigor, are identified and removed. Virus-indexed plants are healthier and more vigorous which means better growth and more blooms for you! While not all of Dayton’s perennials and annuals are virus indexed, most are, so that we can achieve our goal by the spring of 2008 to have all our plants virus-indexed!
 
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