Friday, July 25, 2008

Piketon

PIKETON, Ohio ­ Discover the latest research on fruits, vegetables, flowers and more at the Horticulture Field Day at the Ohio State University South Centers at Piketon, 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 14.

Specialists from the Centers will share their latest horticultural research results, including on wine grapes, blueberry pruning, trickle irrigation, edible landscape gardens and strawberry plug plant propagation.

Speaking will be Brad Bergefurd, horticulture specialist; Maurus Brown, small fruits specialist; and Shawn Wright, horticulture specialist. Admission costs $5, with pre-registration encouraged by Tuesday, Aug. 12.

Dinner is included. RSVP to Julie Strawser, (740) 289-2071 or (800) 297-2072, ext. 223, or strawser.35@osu.edu.

The Centers are at 1864 Shyville Road (State Route 93). Take State Route 32 to State Route 93 south about three miles, and find the main office on the left.Ohio State University Extension and Ohio State’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) are the event’s sponsors.

The program begins with wagon tours of the research plots followed by dinner and classroom-style research presentations.

OARDC and OSU Extension are the research and outreach arms, respectively, of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

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