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Academic argues Water footprinting highlights superior environmental credentials of UK produce.Continue reading...

The chemistry industry can help find sustainable solutions to future challenges in agriculture and food, science writer and researcher Dr John Emsley said in a talk to the Society of Chemical Industry last week.Continue reading...

The British Carrot Growers Association has announced the winner of its Carrot Whistle Olympics competition, in which entrants recorded gold-themed songs on whistles made of carrots.Continue reading...

Three cases of frogs found in bags of leafy vegetables this month have caused some concern and indeed puzzlement in the industry.Continue reading...

It is not just in autumn when these machines can come in useful across a range of sites, says Sally Drury.Continue reading...

Phil Slinger has left the Garden Centre Association after less than a year by mutual consent to pursue other business opportunities.Continue reading...

HM Prison Whatton in Nottinghamshire have been announced as winner of the national award for the best kept prison garden in England and Wales for 2012.Continue reading...

A team of researchers from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee has developed a transparent growing medium which enables real-time analysis of the roots of growing plants.Continue reading...

Barton Grange Landscapes, which recently won a contract to soften the hard edges to a hospital, have won big praise for the £84,000 job.Continue reading...

An award-winning garden designer is to launch an iPad book that talks to readers and lets them buy plants from nurseries.Continue reading...

Trains turned into mobile gardens and orchards around bus stops make up a shortlisted of 20 designs for an ideas competition by Landscape Institute, Garden Museum and London mayor.Continue reading...

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Britain is the only country in the world where a cooking apple (the incomparable 'Bramley', of course) is a major force in the market. Elsewhere, the distinction isn't so clearly made. Any old apple will do for a French tarte tatin. Here, if you're baking an apple, or making a sauce, or...

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There comes the sad, woeful feeling of autumn. Missed opportunities, projects unfinished, shortening day length, bad asters. Yep, asters: I can't stand them. The weak lilac blue of these wimpy late-summer daisies may be viewed by more high-minded gardeners as a wonderful sign of the coming...

THIS wasn't the best of years for fruit and vegetable gardens. There were many failures among crops as they struggled with wet weather and lack of sunshine.Continue reading...

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1. Bird feeder £40, johnlewis.com A hipster home demands a hipster bird feeder – and they certainly don't come much cooler than this number by Eva Solo.Continue reading...

The deadline for participating in BGCI's survey of botanic gardens on the access and benefit sharing provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity.has been extended to 14 OctoberContinue reading...

A CONSERVATORY is more than a place to park frost-tender patio plants until May. The right plants can transform it into a walk-in indoor winter garden, without spending a fortune on heating.Continue reading...