Phytophthora - "healing the landscape"

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“Healing the Landscape” (slightly off topic but nevertheless pioneering) Joe Hawkins, Head Gardener at The National Trust’s Shughborough Estate in Staffordshire, discovered that by treating plant material infected by the problematic Phytophthora pathogen, which is the cause of diseases like Sudden Oak Death amongst others, with The Rocket® in-vessel composter not only sanitises the diseased plant material but the resultant chemical free compost also benefits Shughborough’s classical eighteenth century English landscaped gardens by improving the soil structure – Joe is “Healing the Landscape” with the assistance of The Rocket®.

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