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Pest & Disease Control
If the same vegetable or group of vegetables is grown in the same area of soil year after year, diseases and other problems build up in the soil affecting the plants' growth, usually with a reduction in yield and sometimes killing the plant...
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The recent withdrawal of a number of treatments and chemical controls has meant that vegetable varieties with natural disease resistance are of more and more importance to the home gardener...
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Nemaslug is a unique product, containing microscopic worms (nematodes) which seek out slugs and stop them feeding on your plants within 3 days and then kill them...
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Clubroot is an infection that affects brassicas, leading to massively swollen and distorted roots with poor growth. Although there is no chemical control to kill off clubroot, there are preventative measures growers can take...
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If you want to garden organically and ditch chemicals but still improve yields, companion planting is very important. It's all about establishing groups of plants that are beneficial to each other. An old idea, it was largely forgotten in the years where gardeners relied heavily on pesticides...
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