You gain a competitive edge when you select vegetable varieties that are right for your greenhouse and right for your customers. Here are five pieces of advice from breeders to help you stay ahead of the game.

Vegetable breeding companies will come together this August to host the Summer Vegetable Trials in California. Like the long-standing California Spring Trials that are held annually in California, attendees will have the opportunity to visit breeding companies’ trial sites in seven locations throughout the state, from August 20-21, 2015. National Garden Bureau (NGB), the non-profit organization promoting gardening on behalf of the horticulture industry, is organizing and publicizing this event on behalf of its members.

Growing a plant to maturity in plug trays might be foreign to ornamental growers, but with a little help from plug tray manufacturers and breeders, there is little to hold growers back in this root crop category.

All-America Selections (AAS) honors two vegetatively propagated impatiens with AAS winner status.

Gotham Greens announced October 7 that it has partnered with Method Products, an eco-friendly cleaning product company – to build what they are calling the “world’s largest rooftop farm” at Method’s new manufacturing plant in the Pullman neighborhood, on Chicago’s south side.

Here is a pictorial overview of some of the newest edibles for American Takii, Burpee Home Gardens, PanAmerican Seed and Plug Connection from Greenhouse Grower’s 2014 New Varieties Guide.

If you grow food in your greenhouse that is sold for consumption, food safety regulations will affect you. Here is a recap of Debbie Hamrick’s (North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation) Cultivate’14 presentation on food safety for commercial greenhouse vegetable production.

Urban farming pioneer Bright Farms is attempting to crowdfund what it hopes will be the “world’s most productive urban farm,” in Washington, D.C.

Read about how Go Green Agriculture Inc. took its business from the classroom to commercial reality in one of four articles on how growers are appealing to the growing interest in edibles.

Interest and response to Peace Tree Farm’s annuals and foliage plants continues to increase, but herb and vegetable starter plants is where the company makes its money. Read about it in one of four articles on how growers are appealing to the growing interest in edibles.

Grants brought opportunities for High Meadows Farm to start growing raspberries and tomatoes. Read about it in one of four articles on how growers are appealing to the growing interest in edibles.

Read about Altman Plants’ venture into greenhouse vegetable production in one of four articles on how growers are appealing to the growing interest in edibles.

Check out photos from Greenhouse Grower’s visit to CropKing Inc.’s research greenhouses as part of he vegetable production tour at Cultivate’14.