Protected: Is Risk on your Menu?
At a time when risk is at the top of the agenda, retired landscape horticulturist, Terry O’Regan, reflects on the importance of risk identification...
River Corridors Connecting Nature
Féidhlim Harty explores the boundless potential of and benefits from creating river corridors throughout our countryside
Perfect Storm
Globally we are in a perfect storm; and...
Consumer Gardening Spend in 2020 – The Highest Ever
Carol Marks presents Bord Bia's research on the value of the garden market with reported sales of €1.2bn after a record year for gardening
Recent...
Spring 2021 – Horticulture News
ICL’S LOCKSTAR FOR WEED CONTROL
Alan Abel of Complete Weed Control (South & Central Wales) says that ICL’s residual herbicide, LockStar, has become an...
“Wildflower or Wildfouler”, How the Industry Can Support the Bees and Biodiversity
Noeleen Smyth, National Botanic Gardens in conjunction with Maria Long, Grassland Ecologist National Parks & Wildlife Service; Jane Stout, Professor of Botany, Trinity College...
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AUTOMATED MONITORING OF INSECT PESTS
Monitoring for insects and insect damage is time-consuming and, while an important part of IPM programmes, it is a task...
Assessment of Competency to Issue Plant Passports
The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine outlines the steps required to become an
authorised issuer of plant passports
As a professional operator you play a...
The New Challenges of the ‘Malling Centenary’ Strawberry Variety
In the first of two articles, Dr. Eamonn Kehoe, Teagasc Soft Fruit Specialist, discusses some of the research findings from the work carried out...
Maintaining Margins
Barry Lupton talks to Darragh Connolly of Darragh Connolly Garden Care about finding the path to his business model, succeeding through the pandemic and...
Spend Time Interviewing to Save Time – Sam Barrett
Sam Barrett discusses how spending a little time going through an interview process may actually save you time in the long run
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