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Mardi Gras Carnival
& Casino Night
COME ONE COME ALL AND HAVE A BALL
on January 30th from 6:00 to 10:00
pm
Bouef Gras - The
fatted bull or ox; the ancient symbol of the last meat eaten before the Lenten
season of fasting; a live version was presented in the Rex parade until 1909; a
paper mache version appeared in 1959 and continues as one of Carnival's most
recognizable symbols.
Captain- The
absolute leader of each Carnival organization - I am thinking this is me!
Court - The King,
Queen, maids and dukes of a carnival organization.
Favor - A
souvenir, given by krewe (do you remember what this is from the December
newsletter???) members to friends attending the ball, normally bearing and
organizations insignia, name and year of issue.
Flambeaux - Naphtha-fueled
torches, traditionally carried by white-robed black men; in the past century,
flambeaux provided the only source of nighttime parade illumination
King Cake -An oval
sugared pastry that contains a plastic doll hidden inside; the person who finds
the doll is crowned "king" and buys the next cake or throws the next
party. The king cake season opens on
Kings Day which is January 6, the feast of the Epiphany. Nearly 500,000 king cakes are annually
consumed in the metro New Orleans
area during the Carnival season.
We plan to have a Gourmet
Food Stations, a few feather masks, throw beads, a live band, silent auction and
raffle.
So far we have the following donations that you could win!
Alaska Airline Tickets (2)Padre Tickets -
Donated by Bob Echter
Symphony Tickets
San Diego Zoo admission
Sea World admission
Cygnet Theatre
tickets
Broadway San Diego Tickets
San Diego Ballet Tickets
Newport Landing Whale watching tickets
Coranado Playhouse
Tickets
Restaurant gift
certificates and more...
Mardi Gras Party
Recipes
Here are a few more fabulous recipes to get you in the mood! First start off with.
Fried Tomatoes - Ingredients include 1
egg, ½ cup milk, 2 tomatoes sliced, ½ cup cornmeal. ½ cup flour, ¼ tsp
salt, ½ cup olive oil and pinch of cayenne pepper. In a bowl, mix egg and milk. In another bowl mix dry
ingredients. Dip sliced tomatoes in
egg-milk wash, then into the dry mixture.
Fry in hot oil on both sides.
Drain well.
Hush Puppies - Ingredients include
1-1/2 cup cornmeal, ½ cup flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt, 2 eggs,
1 medium onion minced, 1 clove pressed garlic, 1 (15 oz) can creamed corn,
2 Tbsp olive oil. Sift the
cornmeal, flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add the eggs, onion, garlic, creamed
corn and olive oil. Mix well. Drop by the spoonfuls into hot vegetable
oil in a deep fryer. When dark
brown on one side, turn over in oil.
Drain on paper towels and serve.
Beignets - Pinch of alt, 2 cups of
flour, 2 tbsp baking powder, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp melted butter, 2 large
eggs separated, 4 large McIntosh or Granny Smith apples, 1-1/2 cans of
cold beer. Peel, core and slice
(1/4" thick) apples. Mix all dry
ingredients. Add yolks and butter
to dry mixture. Add beer slowly and
mix until thick batter is crated (may not need all the beer). Whip egg whites till stiff. Soften batter with a little of the egg
whites. Gently fold in egg whites. Coat apple rings with batter and deep
fry in clean oil. Sprinkle with
powdered sugar. Serve hot and drink
the remaining beer - it si only 6 ounces!
Café Brulot - Peel of 1-orange, broken
into 10-12 pieces, 10 cloves, 4 sticks of cinnamon, 4 inches long broken
into pieces, ¾ cup plus 1 tbsp cognac, 14 lumps of sugar and 2 cups of
strong black coffee. Place first 5
ingredients into the Café Brulot bowl.
Fill a metal tablespoon with cognac. Hold lighted match underneath spoon and
ignite contents of bowl with burning cognac. Ladle high for effect. Stir and ladle high over the bowl. Pour coffee into 10 demitasse cups.
Serve immediately.
Recipes from "Class Act"
Simple, Authentic Recipes From the New
Orleans School
of Cooking by John DeMers. www.nosoc.com
Can't wait to see you at
our Mardi Gras Carnival Celebration!
Visit our website go to Events for the reservation flyer. www.flowerandplant.org
Melissa Main John Henry
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Sincerely,
Jan Berry
San Diego County Flower & Plant Association
5600 Avenida Encinas, #108
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Phone: 760 431-2572
Email: info@flowerandplant.org
Website: www.flowerandplant.org
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The
San Diego County Flower and Plant Association has joined the California
Association Pest Control Advisors (CAPCA) to produce a unique educational
summit with a product showcase called HortSmart - Strategies, Education and Marketing
to Enrich your Business! The idea is not
to have just a trade show that has been done year after year, but to have a
top-notch educational summit for sellers and buyers alike. Along with the education seminars we will
have a product showcase at the beautiful South Coast Winery Resort and Spa in Temecula, California.
The
event will kick off on June 2nd with CAPCA producing its high
quality annual educational seminars geared towards pest control advisors and
chemical industry professional. In the
evening we will move into a Cocktail Reception with both CAPCA and HortSmart
participants. On June 3rd we
will start HortSmart with a Breakfast that includes a Keynote speaker, followed
up with the showcase Horticultural Trade Fair in the courtyard to see all the
new products. Then on to motivating
educational seminars in the adjacent Barrel Tasting rooms. This year's theme of this world-class event
is 'Inspiring Growth' with workshops including:
- Sue Kirby -
A National sought after speaker who will present: "The
Wow Factor - Wonderful outrageous ways to grow your business! You
will be entertained as you learn many fresh approaches to customer,
products and profits!"
- Lisa Takao,
Takao Nursery - "Generation Why? - Times have definitely changed and
that includes the next generation of consumers, learn more about this up
and coming group and how you can better teach them!"
- Gary Hudson,
National Marketing Consultant "Strategic Thinking
Fast Forward"
- Gary Jones
Armstrong Garden Centers "What the Consumer is actually thinking
& feeling while shopping in the garden center"
- Brenda
Vaughn, John Henry - "Thinking Outside the Box - Packaging ideas and
strategies"
- Ken Soles
and Chris Johnson on "Shipping - How to get your products
delivered through out the US"
- Laurie
Scullin, The New Product Group: "Marketing - who needs stinking
marketing? We need to shrink the industry - not grow new
customers!!"
- Josh Schneider, Cultivaris "The huge
potential to grow for the Organic Consumer market"
- Knowing the Costs to Grow your Products, Post
Harvest Techniques, Marketing through the Internet...And much more!
We
then finish the day with a bang providing a unique panel with buyers from four
distinctly different market backgrounds within our industry. This will give you a well-rounded perspective
of what buyers are looking for in a supplier.
At
this time we officially would like to invite you to exhibit or at least attend
this wonderful opportunity. These opportunities don't happen every day. To expose your business to this class of
buyers from throughout the United
States is truly an experience you can't pass
up. So please support and "Celebrate
Horticulture" by saving this date now for June 2nd & 3rd,
2010.
Coming soon!www.flowerandplant.org
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President's Message
It is the start of a new year. A time when
each and every one of us hopes and wishes for a really good year, especially
now! A year that will drive us forward and bring a positive outcome. A year
when you want to bet that evens will be better than odds. That hopefully you get dealt a hand you can
work with. Okay I'm talking in gambling
terms because I'm trying to spark the mood for Casino night mixed with a little
bit of Mardi Gras. It's our next
upcoming event and I know it is going to be wonderful because Melissa Main, Jan
Berry, and Todd Ingam all had a hand in making sure that this will be one of 2010's
most exciting nights ever. It's the tradition for our Association to start out
every year with a bang, and it has always been a favorite. I never realized the rational behind it
though until now. When you think about it, as a grower, every choice we make is
a gamble. As a supplier you want to be able to back and cover those
speculations. Yet the only indicator you can count on is actual human interaction,
reaction and formulation. Hence Casino Night.
What better a way to look for your odds and speculate your possibilities
than by coming together in a fun and friendly atmosphere with people who speak
your language and understand your world. To bet that if we work and play well together
we can all become winners.
The Association is taking that same
philosophy a step further and using it to build our first ever "Hort Smart"
trade show. Based on the talks that the buyers gave at the LPGA they want to see
new varieties of plants and/or creative marketing strategies available with
products. This is why we want to create an exciting, enjoyable, educational
event that everyone can benefit from. We want to bring together buyers with
growers and associate members. We are
bringing in speakers, organizing a "Buyers" panel, {somewhat like the LPGA
which drew 120 people} and putting on educational seminars through out the
days. We have a volunteer group of 16 so
far, each working on specific committees to make this all come together in the
next 5 months. We have a lot to do but we are well on our way to building an
event with a positive future. The formal
invitations are being sent out the 1st of February and we will be
announcing more information at the Mardi Gras Casino night. So please take the
time to join with us on January 30th to celebrate the New Year and
contribute in making it great. Each and every
one of us has something special to offer.
I know this personally because I am one of the smallest nurseries
amongst my neighbors, yet I feel huge with all of you by my side. As an
Association we are always there for you, looking for ways to bring attention to
our industry and move us forward. I
hope to see you soon.
Your
Associations biggest cheerleader,
Susan
MacFarland - Valley View Nursery Inc.
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Pest Advisor
These past few weeks questions regarding control strategies for
mites and scales came up more often than the weather! Not really...
For mites, I count at least 12 pesticide-actives available.
That's a lot. Should be no problem finding rotational partners. Some growers
make applications preventatively, every two weeks, while others do this a
little more often. Some crops just invite mites and make it easy for them to
hide. Interestingly the other week, I collected a couple of plants that were
infected with two spotted mites and moved them to my home (don't tell my wife -
she doesn't like it - me bringing home insects that could populate our garden.
It's because I never spray. Go figure). Here is the thing - those mites
disappeared with the change of environment (hope they didn't just jump to the
garden!). Perhaps it just takes a little longer to take them
out after chemical applications.
Here is my short list for mite control; Avid or Abamectin,
Akari 5SC, Floramite SC, Hexygon DF, Judo, M-Pede, Pylon, Sanmite,
Shuttle O, Sulfurs, Triact 70, Ultifolora, Ultra-Pure Oil, JMS Stylet Oil.
Please don't put them in the spray tank at the same time! Let's
use them one or two at a time. Have your Pest Control Advisor sort though and
determine appropriate rotational partners. I don't want to give it all away at
once. Someone has to need us PCAs!
Looking at those miteicides I ask what will work for scales at
the same time? Clearly (to me anyway), the contact products, like M-Pede and
the oils, control scales or their crawlers. It means someone should look
at the insects and note their growth stages before making the application.
Everyone would love to spray once, and be done with it (it's a pleasant dream -
that's all.)
Tomorrow I expect questions regarding cheap control of Botrytis
sp. We don't do cheap! I ask how did that 'preventively sprayed'
using a sticker - like Bond or Nu Film P - weather the storms? With the rains
and winds I strongly favor a follow-up fungicide application as soon as
possible. We keep looking for that "cheap but works" solution. If you know some
- please let me know.
David Pattison, PCA, CaCCA
Crop Production Services
760 522-8349
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Just Sprouted
CH2O
Jay Sughroue, Ph.D.
62053 Red Mountain Way, Temecula, CA 92592
Phone: 800 562-6184 Fax: 360 943-6063
Email: jsughroue@ch2o.com
CH2O Inc. produces high-quality water-based specialty products for the Agricultural and Horticultural industries for the control of biological fouling and scaling in irrigation and cooling systems.
ForemostCo, Inc.
Richard Jones
35671 Michael Court, Wildomar, CA 92595
Phone: 866 316-7149 Fax: 951 813-3023
Email: richard@foremostco.com
ForemostCo® offers a wide variety and constantly changing selection of cuttings and rooted liner material. ForemostCo® provides its wholesale customers with cuttings and liners from both wholly-owned farms and over 100 strategic growers throughout Central America, the United States, the European Union and the Far East.
Harnois Industries, Inc.
Dominic Criscenti
904 Hillpark Lane, Fallbrook, CA 92028
Phone: 760 994-7111 Fax: 760 731-6241
Email: d.criscenti@harnois.com
We are a North American company, established in 1956 and dedicated to providing quality greenhouses and tunnels, as well as complete growing solutions and equipment for the horticulture market.
San Diego Gas & Electric Arnie Garcia 8306 Century Park Court, Mail Stop CP42K, San Diego, CA 92123 Phone: 858 654-1115 Email: argarcia1@semprautilities.com At SDG&E, we're committed to helping your business save energy and money. Take advantage of cash rebates/incentives and energy-saving solutions that help keep your business running as efficiently as possible.
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Farmers Almanac
January 28th & 29th, 2010 - Water Quality and Treatment - Center for
Applied Horticulture Research, 3742
Blue Bird Canyon Rd., Vista. Registration fee per person $250 (before
January 14, 2010) or $295 (after January 14, 2010) Pay with a check made out to
UC Regents and send payment to UCNFA C/O Linda Dodge, Dept.of Plant Sciences
Mailstop 6, University of California, One Shields Ave., Davis CA 95616. Register online at
http://groups.ucanr.org/CORF
February 17th - Private Applicator testing at the Farm
Bureau in Escondido. They all begin at 10:00 a.m. and are in both
Spanish and English. To reserve, call 858-694-8980.
February 28, 2010,Corsage and Boutonniere Hands-on Workshop at 8536 Madison Ave., Sacramento, CA. Cost is $75 includes lunch. Contact Rachelle Nyswonger at 530 345-2661 or email flowersbyrachelle@gmail.com
March 11, 2010, San Diego County Flower & Plant Association - Truck Driving School sponsored by Penske Truck Leasing Co. More details to follow.
April 22,2010, San Diego County Flower & Plant Association - Spring meeting, EuroAmerican Propagators. Guest Speaker Fern Steiner; the vice-chair of the Metropolitan Water
District of Southern California. More details to follow.
May 19, 2010, San Diego County Flower & Plant Association - 46th Annual Golf Tournament at NEW LOCATION - The Crossings At Carlsbad. More details to follow.
June 2nd & 3rd, 2010, California Association of Pest Control Advisors and the San Diego County Flower & Plant Association - Nursery Greenhouse Seminar 2010 and BRAND NEW HortSmart trade show. Inspiring Growth with Strategies, Education and Marketing to enrich your business. More details to follow.
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In Celebration of Gary Bowman
We at Thompson Rose Co. are saddened to report the death of Gary Bowman, who died
suddenly at home on January 7, 2010. Besides being an excellent employee and
our Sales Manager for 25 years he was also a good friend and will be sorely
missed by all of us. He was also the loving and devoted father of his beautiful
12 year old daughter Briana, who was the love of his life. Gary, a single
parent has been Briana's sole financial support for many years and now that Gary is gone we would
like to help secure her financial future; Thus Thompson Rose is in the process
of creating the Briana Bowman Trust Fund. If you wish to contribute to the
trust send your check payable to: K.Thompson
in trust of Briana Bowman and mail to Thompson Rose Co., 949 Cassou Road, San Marcos, CA 92069. Gary also served on the San Diego County Flower & Plant Association for 3 years. He was always dedicated and helped in any way he could. He will be greatly missed.
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