On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:14:19 -0000, "jrbuk" wrote:


"Tony Morgan" wrote in message
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In message , Serendipity
writes

I asked at two of our local Garden Centres for something I
could use to attack leaf miner. They both gave me the same
answer. "There is nothing now avaialable."
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Garden centres increasingly seem these days to be nothing more than
box-shifters (or more accurately plant-shifters).
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Don't overdo it. You could do more damage than the leaf miner does :-)
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Dimethoate is contained in Doff's Systemic Insecticide. Last year I had the
same problem with leaf miner and had great problems finding any systemic
insecticides. Doff was the only one I could track down and I see from their
website that it too has now been withdrawn. This link might explain.
http://www.kc3.co.uk/~dt/plants.htm
I rang my local garden centre where I bought the product last year and they
still had some stock. It doesn't, as far as I know, claim to deal with leaf
miner but I found it effective.
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I have been unable to get any form of Leaf Minor control her in
Plymouth, and my need is genuine.

Would you be good enough to email me at
please.
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