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New products at Harrod Horticultural

by John - February 24th, 2011.
Filed under: Harrod Horticultural, New Products.

New items at Harrod Horticultural

Homebee Honeyhive Kits - Homebee Honeyhive Kit WBC Option - GCN-002

Homebee Honeyhive Kits – Homebee Honeyhive Kit WBC Option – GCN-002 £399.00
These two versions of Homebee Honeyhive Kits are a great entry point into the traditional country pursuit of bee-keeping and as each honey bee hive comes complete with a full information booklet bee-keeping starter kit and details of bee-keeping courses equipment and bee suppliers you’ll be on your way to collecting your own fresh home-made honey in no time!The Homebee Honeyhive Kits are available in both Top Bar and modern ‘WBC’ frames and foundation form and are manufactured from FSC certified timber in that distinctive ‘Olde English’ hexagonal style but it’s not only looks and back-up support that make these Homebee Honeyhive Kits so popular; they provide a ‘minimum intervention’ family-friendly bee-keeping experience when the honey is only taken after the winter from excess. Ideal as a gift these traditional beehives are simple to assemble (no tools) are double skinned to provide winter insulation and feature a detachable sealed timber roof. Each Homebee Honeyhive Kit panel measures 27cm in width and the hives stand 80cm in height (including legs) providing both an attractive interesting educational and fully working addition to your garden.

Homebee Honeyhive Kits - Homebee Honeyhive Kit Top Bar Option - GCN-001

Homebee Honeyhive Kits – Homebee Honeyhive Kit Top Bar Option – GCN-001 £350.00
These two versions of Homebee Honeyhive Kits are a great entry point into the traditional country pursuit of bee-keeping and as each honey bee hive comes complete with a full information booklet bee-keeping starter kit and details of bee-keeping courses equipment and bee suppliers you’ll be on your way to collecting your own fresh home-made honey in no time!The Homebee Honeyhive Kits are available in both Top Bar and modern ‘WBC’ frames and foundation form and are manufactured from FSC certified timber in that distinctive ‘Olde English’ hexagonal style but it’s not only looks and back-up support that make these Homebee Honeyhive Kits so popular; they provide a ‘minimum intervention’ family-friendly bee-keeping experience when the honey is only taken after the winter from excess. Ideal as a gift these traditional beehives are simple to assemble (no tools) are double skinned to provide winter insulation and feature a detachable sealed timber roof. Each Homebee Honeyhive Kit panel measures 27cm in width and the hives stand 80cm in height (including legs) providing both an attractive interesting educational and fully working addition to your garden.

Maxicrop Original Organic Plant Growth Stimulant -

Maxicrop Original Organic Plant Growth Stimulant – £13.95
The Maxicrop Original Organic Plant Growth Stimulant is a potent plant-benefitting liquid feed mix based on seaweed extracts and almost guaranteed to give flowers fruit vegetables shrubs and trees a real health boost! This heady and versatile plant feed approved by the Soil Association can be applied as a root drench foliar spray and general liquid feed fertiliser and used through all stages of growing – germinating propagation transplanting and growing – and with regular use plants will become stronger healthier and develop increased resistance to pests and diseases. Maxicrop Original Organic Plant Growth Stimulant is supplied in a 2.5 litre bottle with full dosing rates and application advice and can also be used on lawns and turf throughout the growing season too making this an organic plant feed for the whole garden!

Maxicrop Organic Seaweed Meal -

Maxicrop Organic Seaweed Meal – £11.45
Each box of this Maxicrop Organic Seaweed Meal brings 2kg of brown knotted wrack seaweed to your garden in powder form along with the many plant benefits this Soil Association approved milled seaweed feed possess leading to improved plant helath and growth and increased resistance to pests and diseases. The mix of nutrients and trace elements contained in the Maxicrop seaweed fertiliser can be scattered on the soil and in planting holes in beds and borders; lawns will benefit from a spring dressing and even the compost heap gets a look-in as the seaweed meal is an excellent compost activator. Application rates and information is contained on the packaging and as this 100% organic granular plant fertiliser will condition the soil encourage beneficial bacteria and help create humus (in turn improving soil structure) as well as providing essential nutrients it’s fully deserving of a place on your potting shed shelf!

Maxicrop Organic Plant Cal-Sea-Feed -

Maxicrop Organic Plant Cal-Sea-Feed – £6.95
Not only does Maxicrop Organic Plant Cal-Sea-Feed do your plants and lawn the world of good thanks to the blend of ground dried seaweed but it allows you to reduce the acidity of soil and grow crops which would otherwise flounder – it’s a great all round organic garden fertiliser!Used at the recommended application rate of 70g per m² a 2kg pack of Soil Association approved Maxicrop Organic Plant Cal-Sea-Feed will treat 28.5m² and the limestones present in this granular plant food will neutralise acidic soils and both provide and unlock calcium and magnesium two essential plant-growth trace elements. The seaweed extracts in Maxicrop Organic Plant Cal-Sea-Feed get soil microbes going and the result is healthy plants with a stronger root system and in far better shape to resist pests and diseases.The only plants not happy to see Maxicrop Organic Plant Cal-Sea-Feed will be ericaceous or acid-loving specimens but brassicas in particular will welcome this powdered limestone/seaweed combination; growing in more alkaline soils helps reduce the likelihood of their arch-nemesis club root.