Amateur Gardening

Control pests and diseases

IF you are a plant grower, then pests are a given, whether they be whitefly homing in on growbag tomatoes on your urban balcony or badgers and wild boar turning your rural lawn into a ploughed field.

The same goes for the diseases that stalk our plants, ready to strike as soon as they sense a weakened individual or the

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