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

11 Nov 2011 | by Peter Seabrook

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...

Seabrook On ... The sweet success of our berry harvest

09 Sep 2011

Last month, I spent a day among east European workers picking soft fruit at Langdon Manor Farm, near Faversham in Kent.

Seabrook On ... Our students must seize opportunities

08 Jul 2011 | by Peter Seabrook

We are told nine out of 10 new jobs are taken by migrant labour and eastern European workers are earning as much as £150 a day pulling and bunching radish.

Seabrook On ... Peat proposals are a cause for concern

01 Apr 2011 | by Peter Seabrook

April Fool's Day is an appropriate time to consider the Defra proposal to phase out peat in professional horticulture by 2030 and in the amateur market by 2020.

Seabrook's notebook

01 Mar 2011 | by Peter Seabrook

Peter Seabrook likes the Potato Council's schools campaign, and wants to see more plants in cafes.

Seabrook on ... An inclusive gardening industry

18 Feb 2011 | by Peter Seabrook

Delegates at the Garden Centre Association's (GCA) conference last month took kindly to the suggestion from Christine Walkden that our trade should do much more to help beginner gardeners - newcomers find us daunting and nowhere near as helpful as we could be, in her and her new-gardener brother's experience.

Seabrook on ... Praising horticultural success

13 Aug 2010

Writing in this month's issue of The Garden, Stephen Lacey believes that we should be proud of what we are really good at - gardening. All strength to his pen, but not just for gardening. Why not all aspects of horticulture?

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