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Dirty Diesel

Mark O’Loughlin casts an eye over the ecological and economic issues facing fleet management.   I was down the yard the other day when all of...

The carbon footprint of food

Teagasc’s Dr Lael Walsh and Loren Lane ask what do we know about the environmental footprint of local and imported fruit and vegetables   With increasingly...

Bord Bia Bloom 2022

Patricia Tyrell makes a welcome return to Ireland’s largest gardening festival...   It is so exciting to see that Bloom is back and normality has returned....

Landscape fabric

Barry Lupton interviews Sarah Prosser, Collective Impact Weaver at Grow It Yourself Waterford.   Sarah Prosser has recently moved from Norway to take up an exciting...

No time to waste

Féidhlim Harty provides some timely guidance on tackling waste in your business. Has anybody noticed the price of materials lately? I've been renovating an old...

Eucalyptus: A favoured filler

Demand for Eucalyptus within the cut foliage sector has increased, leading researchers at Teagasc to look at ways to improve the quality of Eucalyptus...

HC Print Spring 2022 Contents

CONTENTS NEWS 01 Editorial 03 Horticulture News EVENTS 05 The Latest Horticulture Events BORD BIA 06 All the latest news from Bord Bia TEAGASC 08 All the latest news from Teagasc DESIGN 12 REIMAGINING THE...

The fine print

Landscape architect, Colm Kenny, on the intricacies of the tender process and contract negotiation; effective pricing with rising inflation, and how to ensure that...

Our watershed moment

Féidhlim Harty on the importance of good watershed management.   Imagine a golden eagle floating on a rising thermal, high over the hills of Connemara. The...

Not so hard graft

Renowned tree specialist and owner of Annaveigh Plants, John Murphy put an edge on his grafting knife and a new spin on traditional methods...