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Primrose monitoring 2022 season
Previous monitoring of specific crops has helped considerably in understanding how and when to feed your plants. The poinsettia scheme has been very successful in monitoring nutrient levels and building up a database of results. While it was useful to…
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Horticulture Crop Protection Ltd September update
Introduction As you know the AHDB commitment to provide the EAMU service comes to an end in 7 months. Consequently, the industry has a comparatively short time scale to put alternative arrangements in place.The steering group which has been working…
Autumn crops open day 2022
Join us for a group open day hosted by Ball Colgraves Tuesday, October 4th. BOA Autumn crops group Meeting 4th October Ball Colegrave Milton Road Banbury OX17 3EY Tue, 4 October 2022, 10:00 – 12:00 BST A meeting to develop…
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Primrose monitoring example
Primrose 10.5cm potted wk 38 2021 We used Candy Vanilla from Rudy Raes, we knew it was a hungry variety Peat free compost (coir & wood fibre) compared to standard peat & wood fibre (January SAP results) Grown cool vent…
DEFRA Peat Exemptions
The new BOA Technical Committee Propagation Subgroup are interested if you have any evidence you would like to share as part of a proposal to request a peat exemption for propagation. The BOA believe there is a strong case for…
DEFRA Peat Consultation
Ending the retail sale of peat in horticulture in England and Wales consultation is available online and it is vital your views are heard.Please have your say, every opinion counts Please note that DEFRA has asked for as many individual…