Home gardeners to help protect local fruit and vegetable production

TPP sticky trap

Gardeners across the Sydney Basin have been asked to take part in a survey to help protect their crops and NSW’s valuable horticultural industry from an exotic pest, the tomato potato psyllid.

NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Biosecurity Collections curator, Peter Gillespie, said gardeners from Newcastle to Ulladulla and west to Muswellbrook, Bylong, Lithgow and Katoomba are invited to take part.

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