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| I would like to welcome you all to our Kitchen Garden... At Harrod Horticultural we have always advocated a completely organic approach to gardening and the Kitchen Garden provides us with an ideal environment to practice and develop our gardening know how, and also to thoroughly test the products in this catalogue. Included in this section are a range of tools we have found invaluable whilst tending the garden and our exciting new range of Organic Seeds and Plants. |
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Organic Seeds |
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We are delighted to be able to offer our own brand of organic seeds, carefully selected to provide the very best varieties for both quality and flavour and all tried and tested in our own Kitchen Garden. |
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Organic Plant Feeds and Fertilisers |
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These totally organic feeds and fertilisers are all derived from the most incredible naturally occurring sources, Some are produced from seaweed, sustainably harvested, and others work by establishing mycorrhizal fungi on root systems and some use worm casts from specially bred earthworms. |
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Biological Pest Control |
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Biological Pest Control - Using Biological Pest Control as a method of controlling aphids (using one living organism to control another) is a rapidly expanding field - More and more people are using the predatory nematodes as a means of controlling both greenhouse and garden pests and aphids as they move towards Organic Gardening. Click here for the handy Nematode Application Chart
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Haws watering cans |
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Haws Watering Cans are generally accepted as being the best watering cans you can buy. Haws have been manufacturing watering cans since the 1880's and the assortment of watering cans we have selected are practical for all situations, durable and also beautifully made.
“Haws watering cans are as English as fish and chips, Big Ben and rainy Bank Holidays”.
Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph Gardening, 22 April 2006 |
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Kitchen Accessories |
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From preserve jars to onion cellars, vegetable crocks and kitchen composting caddies, if you enjoy growing your own fruit and vegtables and composting your kitchen peelings, here are some clever ideas to make sure your hard work doesn't go to waste and some other useful ideas for your Kitchen besides. |
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Fruit Presses |
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Crushing and pressing fruit to extract juice is a process rich in history, with the production of apple juice and cider stretching back to Norman times. Things have moved on a bit since then, and today, pressing your own, home-grown fruit could not be easier. Here’s what you need to get started... |
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Harvesting and Storage |
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If you've spent all year carefully pruning, training, spraying, feeding, watering and generally fretting about your fruit and vegetables, the very last thing you want to do is cause damage while harvesting. And imagine the distress of discovering after a few days in (what you thought were) ideal storage conditions, your carefully cultivated wares have changed from crisp, juicy and fresh produce into a rancid soggy mess.
Luckily, we've brought together the following products to help ensure you don't have to go through such an ordeal... |
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