Employment Opportunities in the Office of Public Works
Head Craft Gardener at Garinish Island, Co. Cork
Competition Reference: 2021/018
Applications are invited for the above positions. Competition details and application forms are available at...
HC Print Spring 2021 Contents
CONTENTS
NEWS
03 Horticulture News
TEAGASC
06 All the latest news from Teagasc
EDIBLES
10 THE NEW CHALLENGES OF THE “MALLING CENTENARY” VARIETY
Teagasc’s Dr Eamonn Kehoe discusses his research on...
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
In the horticulture...
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...
All the latest news from Bord Bia
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...
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...