Unexpected yellow patches on garden lawns, magpies, crows and other corvids regularly pecking at the same spot and the grass being rotovated at night is an almost certain sign of chafer grubs or leatherjackets.  And the time to treat them is now. The creamy coloured garden chafer grubs are about ...

Following a poll on Twitter*, in which 40% of people had seen more slugs in their gardens, and a particularly soggy weather forecast for most of the United Kingdom over the next week, the Royal Horticultural Society is warning of a slugfestation this month .** BASF breeds microscopic worms known ...

Most people are not aware of how to get rid of leatherjackets or even realise how they can affect their lawn. A Daddy Longlegs in full flight is annoying enough. But did you know that the grubs of this perennial pest, known as Leatherjackets, can destroy massive areas of grass? The trouble ...

Ants love the hot summer weather as much as we do.  Unfortunately, they can stop us from enjoying our gardens. “You need to take action now before they start biting and building more nests in your garden and lawn,” says Jon Manners at greengardener.co.uk, one of the leading distributors of ...

The greenhouse at this time of year is at its most productive – and most vulnerable from pest attack. As the tomato plants ripen and aubergines and peppers come into flower, the pests will be queueing up for their share of the goodies -- and in damp corners and under pots beware the slimy trail of ...

Finally, it’s official.  After decades of sprinkling crushed eggshells around our precious plants, encircling them with copper wire or peppering flower beds with pine mulch, there is now proof positive that these are all lousy methods of deterring slugs and snails. A new short video shows ...

A simple to use and naturally occurring pest control that protects most fruit and vegetables with monthly applications between April and October is available from www.GreenGardener.co.uk. The nematode-based NEMASYS Biological Fruit and Vegetable Protection provides season-long security against a ...

That sinking feeling when you slide open your greenhouse door ready to be amazed by how much your young plants have grown, only to find they've all been eaten! It's even more distressing when you've got them to a decent size and have planted them out only to find that you've just provided a hearty ...

As the weather begins to warm up, green shoots start to appear all over the garden - however biological pest control specialist Green Gardener (www.greengardener.co.uk) warns that unfortunately your plants are not the only things coming to life this Spring. In gardens across the country, pests ...

A simple to use and naturally occurring pest control that protects most fruit and vegetables with monthly applications between April and October is available from www.GreenGardener.co.uk. The nematode-based NEMASYS Biological Fruit and Vegetable Protection provides season-long security against a ...

The UK’s leading supplier of biological pest controls for domestic gardeners reports this Spring that nematodes now account for a quarter of all slug control in our gardens. Nematodes are microscopic worms found naturally in the soil and scientists at BASF, which runs the UK’s only nematode ...

Gardeners across the UK should prepare themselves for an onslaught of slugs following the warm and wet weather of the past few months, according to experts at online retailer Green Gardener (www.greengardener.co.uk). The 2019/20 winter saw just 18.8 days of frost, the third fewest since records ...