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Dealing with lily beetle
Catching lily beetles can be tricky, as they hide or drop off onto the ground at the slightest touch [...]
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Self-seeding plants
One of my favourite things about gardening is the element of surprise. You can design and plan a garden to the finest detail, but you have no control over what will land in your plot.
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Domes of holly
It would have been much easier to find yew or box, but I wanted to stick to this little-leafed holly as, with box blight ravaging our formal gardens, it represents our gardening future.

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Mealy cabbage aphid
Conditions here have been so windy and wet that it amazes me how any pest can hold on firmly enough to be able to attack my plants.
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Hail damage
We’ve just had two big bouts of hail and my poor old plants have taken a battering.
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Tomatoes, aubergines and peppers
My colleague Tamsin and I have come to a decision: this year, on the office allotment, we're not going to grow any brassicas.