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Daryl Shailes talking roots: "Potato yields have held up on all but the lightest of soils"

Hutchinsons agronomist discusses root crop progress in our latest 'Talking Roots'

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Daryl Shailes talking roots: "Potato yields have held up on all but the lightest of soils"

We've got a fig tree in the garden and the number of figs we've had over the years has been very sporadic, often blamed on the weather or, in one year, as a result of hard pruning by my enthusiastic wife....

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