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Article: Sabotage! Prize grower tries to root out the 'rival' who is poisoning his crops.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2004
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Byline: JAMES MILLS
ARMED with a torch, a camera and a flask of tea, Terry Brown keeps an all-night vigil over his allotment.
If the sneaky saboteur who has been nobbling his cauliflowers, cabbages and carrots turns up, he is ready.
But he fears the culprit - possibly a rival grower - may already have consigned to the compost heap his chances of winning the best-kept allotment prize in Yeovil, Somerset.
Last week, just days before the judges arrived to make their inspection, weedkiller was sprayed on his crops - with dire results. 'The carrots are stunted and the cauliflowers just look deformed,' said the 72-yearold retired ...