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are unlikely to find on the shelves of your local garden centre. It was the chemical used in the first aerial crop dusting experiment in 1921, when it was used to control caterpillars on catalpa trees (crop dusting was dramatised in Hitchcock's North

in the lawn? Not on my watch … squirt. Squirt … out damned blackspot. Caterpillars? No way, Jose … squirt, etc, etc. The default action was to reach for easily accessible and much-advertised chemicals.A couple of decades before that not only did gardeners kill

January already: Christmas neatly tucked away and another year of fabulous gardening stretching away ahead of us. The beginning of the year is the time for fresh starts and change but, rather than pestering you with annoying resolutions which few