Author acknowledgements

We thank the following people for their contribution:

• Soils – all sections by Trish Fraser (Crop & Food Research) and Ysanthi Abey.
• Fruit – pip fruit, Graham Burnip (HortResearch); stone fruit, Jill McLaren; berry fruit, Geoff Langford; feijoa and tamarillo, Xenia Meier (all from HortResearch).
• Ornamentals – roses, Bede Nottingham (Christchurch Botanical Gardens); natives, Trevor Partridge (Canterbury Ecology Consultancy Services) and Ryan Young; bedding plants, Louise Morgan (Christchurch Botanical Gardens); and camellias, Ron Van Toor (Crop & Food Research).
• Turf – lawn care, repairing lawn damage, laying down a new lawn, Ron van Toor (Crop & Food Research); turf-type perennial ryegrass, Bill Walmsley (New Zealand Sports Turf Institute).
• Vegetables – carrots, Yasanthi Abeysekera (Hort Research) and Prof Tom Walker; tomatoes, Sue Zydenbos; potatoes, Russell Genet; peas, Ralph Scott (all Crop & Food Research.