Protect fruit and vegetables this season with beneficial nematodes

The ‘grow your own’ trend has really taken off, with more people looking to grow their own fruit and vegetables to live a more sustainable and eco-friendly life. Although growing your own crops can be incredibly rewarding it can also come with a multitude of problems from weather conditions to plant diseases and pests.

There are a whole host of flies, aphids, caterpillars and moths that cause damage to crops affecting plant growth, and quality of food. Carrot flies are notorious for tunnelling inside taproots of carrots, parsnips, parsley, and celery stunting plant growth, causing them to die. Caterpillars are also a huge problem in the garden, often found nibbling away on plant foliage, they can cause complete defoliation to plants ultimately affecting growth and reducing crop yield.

However, there is a way to protect fruit and vegetables from pests without the use of chemicals, and that is with beneficial nematodes. Nemasys® Biological Fruit and Vegetable Protection uses a mix of nematode species ridding your garden of unwanted insects without affecting crops and wildlife with just one product. This product has been specifically researched and created to combat carrot root fly, cabbage root fly, leatherjackets, cutworms, onion fly, ants, sciarid fly, caterpillars, gooseberry sawfly, thrips and codling moth – all of which are common garden pests that attack most salad crops vegetables, bushes and fruit trees.

Nemasys® Biological Fruit and Vegetable protection is suitable for use at temperatures above 12 degrees, perfect for use throughout the growing season between March and October.

Simply water onto your plants and crops using a coarse rose, and repeat throughout the season to ensure you keep the pests at bay.

To find out more about how nematodes work, take a look at this short video - https://youtu.be/JHNG1KSluh0

For further information and to find a list of stockists, please visit https://www.nemasysinfo.co.uk/ and follow basf_nemasys_uk on Instagram.

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Editors notes

Nematodes are naturally occurring microscopic worms, already present in our soil. Beneficial nematodes attack and kill targeted garden pests. They are compatible with organic farming, easy to use and can even be kept in your fridge!

Research scientists have isolated the nematodes that kill specific garden pests including Slugs, Vine weevils, Leatherjackets, Caterpillars, Codling moth and much more.

BASF’s state of the art production facility in the UK produces billions of nematodes in a form that is easily applied by gardeners. Over 20,000 different species of nematodes have been classified, although some estimates put the total figure closer to one million! BASF has the largest specialist nematode production facility in the world, growing trillions of beneficial nematodes for use in their Nemasys range of pest control products.

BASF experts are available for interviews, features and expert comment on biological pest control management, and product is available for reviews, competitions and product trials.