The Transplanted Floral Meadow is a culture technique designed to provide an herbaceous planting of continuous seasonal bloom beginning about 1 month after transplanting to the landscape. The technique requires little or no maintenance once the plants have become established. The meadow consists of a seed mix of annual flowers that are started in the greenhouse in mixed plugs and transplanted to the landscape. In this study, plugs of the annual transplanted floral meadow seed mix were started by broadcasting the seed mix over flats of standard nursery cell-packs filled with a commercial growing medium. The plugs were grown in the greenhouse and transplanted to plots 4 weeks after sowing at 30 × 30-, 30 × 45-, or 30 × 60-cm spacing. The plug sizes used were 801, 1801, 804, or 1804 cell-packs. The plugs were transplanted to 2.25-m2 plots with three replications, each plot being a replication. Plug size and spacing were evaluated based on the rate of canopy closure measured biweekly as the amount of photosynthetically active radiation penetrating the canopy. Close transplant spacing with large plug sizes provided the quickest site coverage. The 1801 and 801 plug sizes provided the greatest species diversity. The 1804 plug size reduced the number of seedlings present at the time of transplanting and did not cover the site until late in the season. The 801 and 1801 plug sizes at 30 × 30or 30 × 45-cm spacing resulted in the best floral display. The results of this research will be used to standardize the transplanted floral meadow technique for use as a new product in the nursery trade.
zoospores produced following methods outlined by Bosland and Lindsey (1991) . A 1-cm mycelial plug of P. capsici grown on water agar was placed onto a 9-cm-diameter petri plate containing V8 juice agar and incubated in the dark at 25 °C. After 5 d, six
Nov. 2008 and ‘Weihenstephaner Gold’ stonecrop seeds were sowed on 19 Dec. 2008. One week after sowing, seedlings were removed to Redi-Earth Plug and Seedling Mix (SunGro Horticulture, Bellevue, WA) contained in 288 plug sizes (one seedling per plug
study ( Quesada-Ocampo and Hausbeck, 2010 ). To inoculate fruit, a 7-mm agar plug from the margin of an actively growing colony was placed mycelial side down in the middle of each fruit on the unwounded fruit surface. The agar plug was covered with a
sphagnum peat (peat) to 5.8. Five-cell-by-five-cell mini-plug trays (round 273 with a volume of 5 mL per cell) were filled with the amended peat up to 4 mm from the rim of the plug cells. Seeds of ‘Rutgers Select’ tomato, ‘Dazzler Lilac Splash’ impatiens
nonamended potting mix; 2) MycoApply (MAPP; Mycorrhizal Applications, Grants Pass, OR) with the powdery product applied on top of the seed after planting (4 g/cell in the first test and 1 g/cell in the second test); 3) Mycor Vam Mini plug inoculum (MVAM
) seedlings used in this experiment were seed-grown two-year-old plants (small plugs) obtained from Heritage Seedlings (Salem, OR) and planted on 5 Mar. 2011 in Seattle, WA. At planting, root systems were washed, and seedlings were planted in Sunshine
bark disk from the excised shoot. The bark disk was replaced by a 5-mm plug of 6-day-old P. cinnamomi cultures grown on potato dextrose agar (PDA) media. Each inoculation point was then wrapped with 2-parafilm ® (Bemis Company, Inc. Neenah, WI) to
times (i.e., n = 7). The values represent the mean of these replicates. Preparation of plant stands. Cucumber (cultivar Hokushin) seeds were sown in plug trays (cell size, 20 mm × 20 mm; depth, 40 mm) containing vermiculite medium and grown in a
single plug of coreopsis from a 288-cell pack. Plugs were rinsed free of media and pruned to have an approximate root and shoot length of 3 and 4.5 cm, respectively, and gravity planted as the column was packed to ensure substrate was unaffected. There