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Seabrook On ... RHS must invest in sustainable growth

- Money is funny stuff, quite difficult to earn, even more difficult to hang on to and very easy to fritter away.

Seabrook On ... Meet face-to-face and work together

- Our world has become a tiny place when it comes to sending messages.

Seabrook's notebook

- Peter Seabrook flags up the tax changes that will put extra pressures on costs this year.

Seabrook On ... Feeding the rapidly growing population

- We are told that science and technology are the best bet to feed the world's rapidly increasing population. Two conferences in one day coupled with the autumn vegetable trials in Lincolnshire last month gave credence to this wager.

Seabrook On ... Blackberry cultivars to face the acid test

- Blackberries to most people now mean communication and this was certainly on the agenda at Hargreaves Plants Blackberry Conference, though the primary subject matter at Nine Elms last month was the edible variety. Andy Jackson from Asda expressed the view that most of his customers confronted with a pack of fresh blackberries would want to know either what to do with them, or what they tasted like!

Seabrook's notebook

- Peter Seabrook wonders at the cost of sidelining disease-hit busy lizzies next season.