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A professional approach to business has seen Tarleton based Ornamental Plants grow over the past twelve years into one of the country’s leading producers of hanging baskets and pack bedding plants.




The original Generate was a concentrated form of Zinc Ammonium Acetate which, in plants, stimulates increased levels of both A and B types of Chlorophyll, speeds up photosynthesis and enhances carbohydrate production. But now we’ve made it even better




There is increasing interest amongst soft fruit growers in the concept of EC feeding – that is, fertigating their soil grown crops on a continual basis throughout the growing season. Over the past few years, several growers have experimented with the use of constant EC feeding and, without exception, they have found that fruit quality problems have been significantly reduced and yield and fruit size have been significantly increased.




A recent addition to the Hortifeed range of products is Fytocell – a unique substrate designed to improve the water and air holding capacity of any compost.




Hortifeeds Direct has strengthened its sales team with the appointment of Terry Grimshaw as Technical Sales Manager for the East of England.




A Lancashire-based grower of ornamental plants is benefiting from huge cost and time savings since he since he started using Hort-Wet, the super-concentrated long term wetting agent from Hortifeeds last year. Use of this extremely safe wetter has effectively reduced crop watering by 50%.


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