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Geoff Dixon

Professor Geoff Dixon is managing director of GreenGene International.

He is a consultant and author and senior research fellow at the University of Reading’s Centre for Horticulture & Landscape.

Dixon On ... Landscapers tackle Olympic challenges

- Hindsight is safe, prediction is perilous. Remember the "barbecue summer" that ended-up as a monsoon? But here goes. The Olympics will test Britain's abilities for landscape maintenance as never before.

Soil fertility - Friendly microbes

- The role of microbes in maintaining soil fertility needs to be recognised because they can boost industry profit, says Geoff Dixon.

Dixon On ... Fashioning a health role for cabbages

- Lincolnshire's annual October vegetable breeders' open days demonstrated well how market fashions change.

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Horticulture Week - 3 February 2011

NEWS: Senior parks staff exodus sparks alarm across capital

RETAIL: Garden centres look to supermarkets

MARKET REPORT: Ride-on mowers

INTERVIEW: Cruickshank Botanic Garden curator Mark Paterson

EDIBLES: Brassica conference news round-up

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