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June 2002, Vol 1 Issue 4 Purdue Extension GardenTIPS E-NewsletterWelcome to the Garden TIPS E-Newsletter. Listed below are tips and links to articles. Follow the links to the GardenTIPS Web site for more information and links at: http://www.extension.purdue.edu/gardentips/ View the online version, at: http://www.extension.purdue.edu/gardentips/newsletter/vol1issue4.html ===================================================== Harvest Gardening Ideas at Purdue Garden Day Gardeners, mark Saturday, July 13, on your calendar for Purdue University Garden Day! This annual open-house event will be held from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. at the Purdue University Horticulture Building and Gardens on the West Lafayette Campus. The festivities include guided tours of the ornamental gardens, a gardening information booth, and gardening lectures, presented by Purdue staff, Master Gardener volunteers, and local experts. Morning tours of the Horticulture Greenhouses will also be available. This year's ornamental garden features a "stars and stripes" theme with contrasting rows of multi-colored bedding flowers arranged in a symbolic pattern. In addition, many different perennials, including over forty cultivars of choice hosta and daylilies will be in their prime. The gardening lectures, held in air-conditioned comfort, will cover orchids, garden diseases, and children's gardening. =====================================================
Tomato packs more cancer-fighting punch Forget the attack of the killer tomato, this is the attack of the healthy tomato: A team of scientists has developed a tomato that contains as much as three and a half time more of the cancer-fighting antioxidant lycopene. It turns out that the antioxidant-rich tomato was a happy accident. Scientists at Purdue University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service were working to develop tomatoes for food processing that were of higher quality and would ripen later. They accomplished that, but in the process they discovered that the new tomatoes also had significantly more of the antioxidant than conventional tomatoes. "We were quite pleasantly surprised to find the increase in lycopene," says Avtar Handa (pronounced "Honda"), professor of horticulture at Purdue. Full Story, http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/020617.Handa.lycopene.html =====================================================
Physiological Leaf Spot
of Tuliptree =====================================================
Give Asparagus and Rhubarb
a Break =====================================================
Tuliptree Flower
Japanese Beetles Emerging
in the Rain! =====================================================
Southern
Blight of Hosta ===================================================== More Information on: Visit the GardenTIPS Web site
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