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BE PEST SMART

One of Wales’ cherished gardening experts, Terry Walton, is encouraging people throughout Wales to reduce their reliance on weedkillers and other pesticides to help protect the environment.

The renowned gardener and grower has teamed up with Dwr Cymru Welsh Water’s PestSmart project to call on fellow green-fingered enthusiasts to make the ‘PestSmart Pledge’ by introducing simple changes to their gardening habits in a bid to prevent pesticides from entering rivers and streams across the country.

Having adopted organic and natural methods of gardening from the early stages of his career, Terry explained that the PestSmart Pledge

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