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...
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MUSHROOMS CAMPAIGN DELIVERS
The €2 million ‘Mushrooms Complement Everything’ campaign ran over the past three years in the UK and Ireland. This campaign which was...
All the latest news from Teagasc
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...
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
In the horticulture...
The Garden and Landscape Designers Association Seminar 2021
Designing in Challenging Times A Shift in Perspective
We recently watched as the Ever Given, a 400metre long container ship, went aground
and blocked a main...
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...
“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...
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...