Peppers news archive – Page 21
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Hot stuff for Tesco
The Bedfordshire Super Naga will be exclusively sold at Tesco stores in the UK
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Hot Stuff for Tesco
The hottest commercially grown chilli pepper will be exclusively sold at Tesco stores.
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New shapes, tastes and sources on shelf
There is no doubt that plums, or more accurately the hybrids, are being elevated to new heights with new shapes and tastes
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Salads shine - unlike the sun
The stuttering British summer hasn’t put shoppers off buying salad, with producers and retailers remarkably upbeat about the category’s prospects
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The fresh produce industry is perfectly placed to tap into the organic baby food market
The majority of ambient baby and toddler food found on supermarket shelves is older than the child consuming it. Technically
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Making fresh produce count
Best known as the brainy former Countdown co-host, Carol Vorderman tells Lisa Kjellsson how she maintains her intellect and enviable figure
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New tomato research 'lowers production costs'
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the domesticated tomato in a breakthrough that could lower production costs for growers of tomato crops.
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Tomatoes in every shape and size
Retail descriptions to market fresh produce have always fascinated me, no more so than in the tomato sector where varieties,
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Hot weather boosts fresh produce sales
The recent heat wave combined with excitement over the Queen’s upcoming Jubilee celebrations has been good for fresh produce sales with Sainsbury's reporting record sales of salad.
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Bernard Sparkes retires aged 70
Sparkes, a veteran of the horticulture industry and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award at the Grower of the Year awards in 2007, bows out after 54 years of service.
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Salad festival on cue in Lea Valley
Mr Tomato, Little and Big Supercue and Pippa Pepper were on hand on 12 May to open the 2nd Great British Cucumber Festival at Waltham Abbey, Herts.
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Pushing the market for melons
The melon sector has had a number of challenges facing it lately, but producers are fighting back with investment and NPD, as Eurofruit’s Steven Maxwell and Gill McShane explain
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Salads await summer of sales
Salads are a firm fixture on the shelves as summer dawns, but producers will be looking nervously to the skies to help spark the expected sales rush
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Shelves reflect industry changes
The days are long past when capsicums, or peppers as they are now universally known, were a novelty. While still sold loose,
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Mighty Mini Sweet Peppers hit stores
Wilson Produce and Enza Zaden North America launch one-pound bags of new pepper variety
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Toyota plans fresh produce production
Japanese car giant announces plans to grow bell peppers using heat generated from manufacturing plant in tsunami hit region
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Poor prices hit Spanish tomato growers
Spanish cherry tomato producers have lost on average €30,000 per hectare so far this season as a result of the “poor average prices” that have been received since the campaign began in September 2011.
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The Heston of gardening
TV garden designer David Domoney’s unconventional methods, which include feeding plants with bananas, eggs, beer and even Viagra to keep them happy, have earned him the nickname “the Heston Blumenthal of gardening”. Lisa Kjellsson finds out more about him
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Veg demand seesaws
Price increases have brought a value rise in vegetable sales, but in turn volumes have declined in a mixed period for the sector
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New concepts spring into action on shelf
When temperatures fluctuate, the nation’s diet switches overnight from salads to stews and casseroles, but hope still