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Podcast: HortWeek Podcast
Episode: Harrowden Turf on wildflowers, plastic, demand, tech and mental health
Description: Harrowden Turf's managing director Stuart Ridd-Jones talks on the Horticulture Week Podcast about the company's diversification from turf growing to wildflower turf, sedum, green roofs and topsoil. Ridd-Jones gives us a market outlook and discusses new technology such as the Firefly Harvester.The effects of extreme weather due climate change on smaller gardens means we need new types of turf, such as shade-tolerant products, he says.Plastic in wildflower turf and not mowing turf as part of campaigns such as 'No Mow May' are hot topic and he gives us...