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A woman kneels beside a garden bed.

Heavy machinery recycling dirt

An image of a plant with deformed leaves

"I didn't want another gardener to buy stuff that would then end up like we had."

A woman wearing a white shirt among garden beds.

"It's a terrible situation. It's absolute Russian roulette at the moment."

Test pots in a greenhouse containing samples from four batches of soil.

"I think it's very easy for gardeners to see a deformity or sickness on a plant and blame themselves,"
Dr Williams said.

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