Kitchen Garden

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CHARD TIMES

For the last two years we have not been able to get a decent crop of chard because of the leaf miner damage.

Terry Parker, Bicester

STAR QUESTION WINS £25 VOUCHER

Unfortunately, the only sure-fire way of controlling beet leaf miner without using chemicals is to cover with insect mesh/netting for the life of the crop or at least during the main

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