tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post3882912319673318529..comments2024-03-04T20:37:43.516-08:00Comments on Noel's Garden Blog: Updates - EU legislation and Oudolf meadow Noel Kingsburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09443137231998907024noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-49404790827075766712013-12-05T06:23:22.867-08:002013-12-05T06:23:22.867-08:00Thanks for your campaigning on the PRM regulation,...Thanks for your campaigning on the PRM regulation, Noel. I have spoken with key MEPs this week and we know that pretty much all the amendments that the stakeholder group has been working on with DEFRA are being tabled - if they all go through, we'll have a regulation that can work. We still need people to write to their MEPs and to talk with colleagues and friends in other EU member states.<br /><br />Your readers can find out more here: http://www.plantsforeurope.com/2013/11/new-european-commission-regulation-on-plant-reproductive-material/Graham Spencerhttp://www.plantsforeurope.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-59059722003636925122013-12-01T18:28:52.356-08:002013-12-01T18:28:52.356-08:00Thanks for keeping us apprised of the legislative ...Thanks for keeping us apprised of the legislative mischief in the EU: we have suffered enormously in America as the agri-business giants have "persuaded" our Congress and State legislatures to pass all manner of mischief that makes small business less competitive and helps them further corner markets. I hope Europe can resist the blandishments of the meritocracy better than the USA, which has effectively become an oligarchy orchestrated by the famous 1% (including, of course Cargill, Monsanto and the like)...<br />Panayoti Kelaidishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-11924641014373756892013-12-01T08:53:22.916-08:002013-12-01T08:53:22.916-08:00Thanks for explaining forbs, did not like to ask a...Thanks for explaining forbs, did not like to ask as I felt so ignorant.<br />Interesting about phosphate, gardeners have been adding excessive amounts for years<br />Interested to learn that grasses do not retain many nutrients in their roots. I would be surprised if those that go dormant do not store much nutrient?<br />I wonder if lower available phosphate is part explanation for the wild flowers on chalk and at the other extreme, acid soils, phosphate availability lowers above PH 7.5 and below 6<br />As a completely irrelevant fact, high phosphate can be toxic to some plants from the Australian continent where the natural rock is low in phosphateRoger Brook - No Dig Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210160273591839142noreply@blogger.com