Please send me your articles, notes, questions, and short autobiographical sketches for the Fall 2008 issue of the RHA Newsletter.
Maybe some of you have already written stuff to send in, so please go ahead and send that now. And if you haven’t written anything yet, go ahead and write something so you can share your experience(s) with others and we can all learn from each other.
The announced symposium topics for the fall Newsletter:
Beginner’s Luck.
One member specifically asked for discussion of seedling care–for insights, techniques, short cuts, and tips on first-year seedling care. How do you water your hundreds or thousands of seedlings, how often you feed them, and with what? At what point do you transplant them from a seedling mixture into regular potting soil or earth.
Anything else that might be useful to a beginner–or something that you learned as a beginner–is also OK, but discussion of this topic was requested. I’m sure almost everyone can give some input on this subject.
My Best Parents for the Cleanest Seedlings.
You may write about the best parent(s) for a particular class of roses–HT, Grandiflora, Floribunda, Miniature, Shrub, etc, or color of roses if you wish. What you say may be based on personal experience or on research into the varieties which seem to have consistently “clean” seedlings.
Please remember that this is your Newsletter. I will try to get it published on time (September 1 is the approximate publication date for the fall issue), but as always I need your help in the form of stuff I can publish. I’m always willing to work with you on an article, but we all need your ideas, so please share those ideas.
If you get your articles to me within the next 10 days, by August 25, I’ll let you have Labor Day off. Is that a good deal?
One further note–
At present we don’t have a sponsor for the color cover that makes our Newsletter attractive and adds to what we get from some of the articles. If you have been thinking about sponsoring a cover to share one of your seedlings or illustrate some part of your breeding program, this would be a good time. Please get in touch with me at peter.harris.g/use the AT symbol/gmail.com.
Peter
