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Bedding and Pot Plant Centre
Name:
Chris Need, project manager
Farm sectors:
Horticulture
About Bedding and Pot Plant Centre
- Address industry needs via a work programme to demonstrate new product opportunities, best practice and practical solutions to problems encountered on nurseries
- Work programme was undertaken at a number of nurseries and research centres
- Robust programme of events, workshops, study tours and other outputs
- Project management group consisted of growers
The Bedding and Pot Plant Centre was a ‘virtual’ centre set up to become the primary site for bedding and pot plant research and demonstration in the UK.
Its aim was to address a range of different technical and new product development issues as nominated by the project management group.
The longer-term aim is to technically support and facilitate networking among UK bedding and pot plant growers.
Trials and outputs have included:
- Phytotoxicity evaluation of new fungicides for powdery mildew and botrytis control
- Assessment of new poinsettia varieties for the UK market
- Improvement of spray application to crops
- Range of salvia species for use as bedding plants
- Resource management workshops
- A series of overseas and UK study tours
Chris Need is contracted to run the Centre for AHDB.
