Major disaster assistance requested of FEMA following September 14th’s flash flood by St. Louis County Executive, Charlie Dooly.  

More than 720 residents and over 100 private businesses were affected, many of which do not have private insurance coverage to insure property restoration.  Click these links for more information:

St. Louis County

FEMA

Affected MLNA members please share your experiences over this event, what advice, suggestions  or directions you would like to share and let everyone know what can be done to help! Click here to share your information.

Upcoming MLNA Events

January 4 - 6, 2009, Overland Park, KS.

2009 Western Annual Meeting and Trade Show

• MLNA - Business Meeting
• Missouri Green Industry Hospitality Reception
  • Sponsored by: MLNA, The Hort Coop of Metro St. Louis, The HortNetWork of the Kansas City Metropolitan Region.
  • Open to all Green Industry Professionals
• MLNA - Missouri Certified Green Industry Stars
  • Module 1 & 2 Testing. Contact us for details.
  • To find out more about the Certification Program, click here
  • Register for BOTH the 2009 WESTERN Annual Meeting and Trade Show AND with the Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association.

Check out our other Upcoming events here.

Update on the Emerald Ash Borer

MLNA is advising the public, communities /municipalities to update their tree inventory and take notice of their number of ash trees and consider making adjustments to long term planting programs. Click here for a short and long list of tree alternatives that are recommended to perform well in Missouri.

How to identify an ash tree and ash borer damage- click here
How to identify lilac borer which also attacks ash trees and is much more common ( there are several borers that can damage ash trees but none have the same traits or have as serious potential) click here.

There will be continued monitoring of the traps in place but no more traps will be installed this year.

The traps in use are still being modified and improved for production. Due to this evolution they are not available for purchase.

There has been an emergency permit applied for the use of Tree-age for control. It is not currently approved for use in Missouri. For information on Michigan’s effort to control EAB with this pesticide click here

Q. I need a fast and easy way to figure product for my job particularly my mulch and top soil needs. 

A: If you have internet access, there are several websites with calculator functions including this easy one that was recommended to me at Soil Builder’s website. 

Here is the link:  http://www.soilbuildingsystems.com/CubicYard.php  . 

If anyone has other favorite sites for this type of help please send them to us and we will post them on the blog! 

Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association’s Member, Pharm Solution’s Products receives USDA Organic Certification 

National Organic Program Certification:. The company says its Rose Pharm, Veggie Pharm, Indoor Pharm, Flower Pharm, Fungus Pharm, Oil Pharm, and Soap Pharm are the only pesticides to qualify as USDA Certified Organic. The Pharm Solutions line of patent-pending organic pesticides has been available since 2004. "The process has been challenging," said Susan E. Lewis, founder and president. "We believe we have set a new standard for pesticides and hope this accomplishment motivates other pesticide manufacturers to follow suit”.  For more information about this new MLNA member visit:  http://pharmsolutions.com

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