Commercial horticulture in Wales is being driven by demand for new varieties and locally grown food. It has a strategic role in food security, healthy eating, plants for pollinators and tree stock for carbon capture. Advances in technology and new growing methods provide opportunities for horticulture businesses to improve their efficiency and increase their productivity. Staying ahead of new innovations and techniques can be tricky for smaller businesses when time and resources are stretched. This section explores the key issues facing horticulture businesses. It contains links to other sections of the Knowledge Hub with practical steps to consider and links to other useful resources.

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Webinar: Nutrient Use Efficiency in Field Vegetables

Tyfu Cymru, Dr Lizzie Sagoo and Chris Creed of ADAS hosted this webinar on…

Webinar: Weed control in field vegetable production: Integrated weed management options

Weed control in field vegetable crops is essential to retain yield and qual…

Webinar: Green Manures and Cover Crops hosted by Andy Dibben

Head Grower at Abbey Home Farm a 1600 acre Mixed Organic Farm in Gloucester…

Highlights from 'A Systems Approach to Organic Vegetable Production with Iain Tolhurst'

Iain Tolhurst has been at the forefront of the UK organic farming movement…

Technical Advice Sheet from the Vegetable Network Power Hour

The Tyfu Cymru Vegetable Network have launched an online power hour in orde…

Technical Advice Sheet: Growing Lavender

Lavender can be a new and unusual crop that can be integrated into a range…

Technical Advice Sheet: Growing Sunflowers

Sunflowers can make a very attractive addition to wide range of businesses.…

Sunflower Webinar

Tyfu Cymru hosted a webinar on sunflowers as there is currently a lot of in…

Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 10

Intermediate seed saving – Routes to Market. In this webinar we start with…

Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 5

The session will re-cap on the basic genetics of seed production, including…

Seed Training Programme - Webinar 1: Cultivation of simple crops for seed

This session introduces the key principles and looks at what we would consi…

Ben Hartman Webinar: Small Farm Composting and No-till Soil Building

In this webinar, Ben Hartman, author of The Lean Farm, will explain his eff…

Considering Converting? The First Step Towards Organic Production

Demand for organic produce and products in the UK has been consistently on…

Soilless Cultivation For Leafy Salads

The production of crops without soil, typically through hydroponics, using…

Soilless Cultivation For Table Top Strawberry

Until 1997, strawberry production in the UK was relatively constant, althou…

Soilless Cultivation For Herbs

The production of crops without soil, typically by hydroponics, using nutri…

Soilless Cultivation For Ornamentals

Growing plants without soil is a precise method to deliver water and nutrie…

Notes from Pruning Workshop Helios Orchard, Pool Hill Newent

Notes from Pruning Workshop Helios Orchard, Pool Hill Newent - Jan 2020. Tr…

Growing Cut Flowers Year Round

A huge range of plants from trees and shrubs to annuals and bulbs can be gr…

Technical Advice Sheet: Raspberry & Cane Fruit

This technical advice sheet focuses on Raspberry and Cane Fruit, and provid…

Technical Advice Sheet: Christmas Tree – July

This fact sheet provides technical advice on managing Christmas Tree crops

Seed Cleaning and Storage

Seed cleaning is getting the seed out of its ‘container’ and removing anyth…

Seed Cultivation - Seed Quality

Seed producers want to produce the best quality seeds. As growers we know t…

Planning For Seed Crops

Planning Annual & Biennial Seed Crops See Vegetable Seed Training Program…

Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 1 – Seed Sovereignty

Producing an open pollinated seed crop on your farm can improve the quality…

Controlled Environment Agriculture Article & Vertikit Case Study

Vertical Farming (VF) and Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) are the…

Webinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 9 - Managing and processing your seed

Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…

Webinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 8 - Harvesting and cleaning your seed

Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…

Christmas Tree Network Study Visit: Technical Pruning Notes

Timings of pruning can vary between tree types. For Nordmann Fir pruning sh…

Webinar: Crop Planning and Rotation – Field scale growing

Join Nick Bean (Springfields Produce), John Addams-Williams (Head of Field…

Webinar: Crop Planning and Rotation – Small Growers

Crop rotation helps to reduce a build-up of crop-specific pest and disease…

Horticulture Leaders Forum – Expert panel debate 2

The second in a series of expert panel debates as part of the Horticulture…

Webinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 7: Plant Selection 2

Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…

Webinar: Nut Power Hour

In our first Nut Power Hour Tom Tame from TR Tame & Son – Granary Oils & Wa…

Webinar: Asparagus; a diversification crop for Wales

The webinar covers establishment and production including organic. Chris Cr…

Webinar: Diversifying into Horticulture: Considerations for leasing land, creating contracts, and hiring staff or trainees

In this session we will explore the terms that require consideration for bo…

Webinar - Flower Network - Starting Dahlias from tubers and cuttings

In this webinar Robert Evans from Pheasant Acre plants an Award-winning Dah…

Webinar: Propagation methods and systems for Ornamentals

Traditionally ornamentals producers used to propagate much of their own sto…

Webinar: Cut Flower Production - Extending the season

One of the main barriers for people wishing to work with British Flowers is…

Webinar: The Flower Farmer's Year

The Flower Farmer’s Year session looks at how Georgie Newbery - the flower…

Plant Reproduction Toolkit

This toolkit forms part of the Tyfu Cymru Intermediate Vegetable Seed Train…

Technical Advice Sheet: Weed Control in Ornamentals

Your first line of defence against weeds should be cultural controls; no he…

Technical Advice Sheet Pumpkin planning and weed control – May

You should now be planning the planting for this year’s crop. If you’re new…

Webinar: Planning for the 2021 Season – Soft Fruit

ADAS technical expert Chris Creed delivered an interactive session to assis…

Webinar: An introduction to commercial lavender production

This session explored the basics of establishing a lavender operation as pa…

Video Guide: Inspection of new strawberry plants

New strawberry plants should be inspected on receipt from the propagator to…

Video Guide: Planting of New Strawberry Plants

We demonstrate how to plant new strawberry plants in coir bags for table to…

Video Guide: Potting Up New Raspberry Canes

We demonstrate how to plant up long cane raspberry plants into new coir pot…

Video Guide: Setting Up New Potted Raspberry Canes

We demonstrate how to set up new potted raspberry canes, along with a discu…

Ben Hartman Webinar

Ben Hartman - Using the Lean System to Earn a Comfortable Living on a Farm…

BiteSize Digital Marketing Series: Google Analytics and getting found on Google

This webinar was hosted by Eddy Webb, who has 20 years experienced as a Dig…

Seed Training Programme - Webinar 3 Selection of crop for seed

This third session will look at the principle involved at the selection sta…

Seed Training Programme - Webinar 2: Cultivation of trickier crops for seed

The second cultivation session builds on the first session and look at tric…

Tyfu Cymru and Charles Dowding Q&A - Part 2: No Dig Methods and Advantages for Intensive Cropping

Charles Dowding joins us for a Q&A session with Welsh commercial growers fo…

Tyfu Cymru and Charles Dowding Webinar Part 1: No Dig Methods and Advantages for Intensive Cropping

In the first part of this webinar Charles presents the benefits of no dig a…

Niels Corfield Webinar: Soil Health for Commercial Growers

In this webinar you will learn what the soil health principles are, where t…

Webinar: How to quickly start selling online

In this webinar, Eddy Webb from InSynch talks us through some quick tips on…

Technical Advice Sheet Pumpkin Power Hour – June

Tyfu Cymru have launched regular Power Hour sessions for members of the Pum…

Technical Advice Sheet Strawberry & Raspberry May 2020

This fact sheet provides technical advice on managing your strawberry and R…

Should we say no to floral foam?

There is no escaping the growing consumer and media interest surrounding pl…

Tyfu Cymru and Ben Hartman Webinar

Further to our popular Ben Hartman workshop at Cae Tan in January, Ben has…