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Mutual support and saving one another as a benefit to each other business concept as two sick trees with new leaves growth emerging shaped as a human head providing a revival for success.

Supporting Horticulture – Carol Marks

Carol Marks, Sector Manager Horticulture, outlines Bord Bia’s COVID-19 response In March, the country’s very necessary COVID-19 response impacted all sectors of the Irish food,...
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5 Steps to grow your business online – Rory O’Connor

Rory O’Connor explains how going digital can help your garden retail business thrive, despite the pandemic Digitalisation has never been more relevant to businesses within...
THE RARE GREEN-WINGED ORCHID (ANACAMPTIS MORIO) APPEARED IN A PORTLAOISE HOUSING ESTATE LAWN WHEN MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL WERE KEPT OUT BY LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS. CLASSED AS ‘VULNERABLE’ IN IRELAND’S 2016 RED DATA LIST OF VASCULAR PLANTS, THIS MEANS IT HAS DECLINED BY AS MUCH AS 49% IN ITS AREA OF OCCUPANCY. PHOTO: DR FIONA MACGOWAN, CONSULTANT ECOLOGIST AND BOTANIST.

Corona time and ecological recovery – Féidhlim Harty

Writing during the lockdown, Féidhlim Harty asks, has the pandemic been all bad for the planet or society? Last year, both British and Irish governments...
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The art of digging holes – Terry O’Regan

Retired landscape horticulturist, Terry O’Regan, continues his series of articles reflecting on his adventures in the landscape sector I cleared out the office belonging to...
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A new horizon for horticulture at UCD

As the incidence of Covid-19 disease in the country continues to diminish the number of track and trace centres required have been reduced. As...
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HC Print Spring 2020 Contents

CONTENTS NEWS 03 Horticulture News, COVID-19 Support & Guidance TEAGASC 10 All the latest news from Teagasc EDIBLES 12 GROWING UP FAST John Paul Prior asks, will...

Secure opportunity – Barry Delaney

BARRY LUPTON INTERVIEWS BARRY DELANEY As the International Year of Plant Health unfolds, Barry Lupton puts some tough questions to Ireland’s Chief Plant Health Officer,...

International Year of Plant Health – Shane Kirk

Shane Kirk explains the global impact of good plant health The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) nominated 2020 as the International Year of...
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Seeds of change – Planting design for the 21st century – Patricia Tyrell

GLDA SEMINAR REPORT BY PATRICIA TYRELL Met Éirean warned of Storm Jorge, and recommended that everyone stay at home, but that did not deter the...
RHIZOBIUM IS ONE OF THREE NITROGEN-FIXING BACTERIA INCLUDED IN EU FERTILISER REGULATION THAT WILL COME INTO FORCE IN 2021

Growing pains for Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria – Dr Karen O’Hanlon

Dr. Karen O’Hanlon discusses biological organisms position as a plant growth promoter within a chemically regulated environment Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) are naturally occurring...

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