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Old 05-01-2013, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Spider[_3_] View Post
Well, if I grow them, they'll be in heavy London clay miles from the
sea, so they'll have to cope with that;~). Looking on the bright side,
your other helpful info said they were resistant to slugs, which is a
good thing here. We're overrun with slugs and snails:~(.
Sarpo Mira seem very slug resistant - I;m overrun too, yet didn't have any slugs in the potato tubers. It was also very obvious that the top growth was being left alone, whereas the pink fir apple were really hammered.
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