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Water under the bridge

BRITAIN’S 3.5 million new gardeners have had a tough initiation: a month without rain, following weeks of deluges, now combined with frosty temperatures night after night. We longstanding gardeners cannot remember so prolonged and unhappy a confluence of extremes. No wonder the horticultural industry continues to battle with a heady mixture of record orders and vicious weather; farmers, meanwhile, struggle on

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