You can see an image of the Sarpo's, including the new introductions, in a blogpost I wrote following the 2009 open day at the Sarvari Research Trust. To say they are in 'a different league', is spot on. Anyone interested in developing their gardening (or indeed their food growing business...
A rumour that the Garden Media Guild was preparing to 'drop' one of its most sought-after awards, the Environmental Award, because 'everyone is a green writer now' caused more than a few raised eyebrows among gardening communicators. Eyebrows reached their limits when the Guild's...
The complacency and self righteousness of lots of organic gardeners habitually takes no account of actual use of pesticides, just demonises the lot and makes us sound like mad spray fanatics. It may depend just what you are attempting and with what. 'Good' advice would not be much use to me ...
What gardeners need is good advice on how to grow healthy plants without resorting to these products. As an organic gardener I have have never used weedkillers or other chemical pesticides. Garden centres just need to change their focus and provide gardeners with alternatives and information.
