Biocontrol...buy your predator bugs here

[Paulottie]

Known this lady for many years, even used to help her out with holiday cover.

Biowise

Thought I'd recommend her to all you non-chemical gardeners. She really knows her stuff and has been supplying the trade for a long time and now does amateur orders. She really helped me to stop using pesticides and has saved many crops for me.

Went to pick up some spider mite predators and was speaking to her about the new Nemasys...'Grow Your Own' treatment...a collection of water on nematodes to attack all root flies, cutworms, ants, thrips, scarid, caterpillars(inc sawfly) and codling moth....Blimey sounds like a miracle in a box!!!

at £5 for 60 m2!!! (better value than the slug one) I'm going to trial it on the allotment this year and will let you all know the results.

[chris]

Thanks Paul,

Sounds great.. always prefer to support smaller retailers too. I'll place an order tonight

[chris]

Ooh, and they do some stuff to prey on leaf miner.. even better!

[tiachica]

I have been putting the GYO nematodes on my carrots and the other root veggies, cause they are not covered. Will see if it makes a difference.

[Paulottie]

Think she may be out this afternoon as I am picking up the 'GYO' from a cool box but she is normally about in office hours and there is an ansaphone.

Hope she can help.

[Paulottie]

I have been putting the GYO nematodes on my carrots and the other root veggies, cause they are not covered. Will see if it makes a difference.

Yeah, mine are covered with enviromesh... so I am going to trial it for rootfly on my neighbours'. While I shall try it on ants, thrips and caterpillars. Would like to try it on the codling moth too...can't really water the big apples but the smaller trees and surround will get a treatment.

[di]

We have a real problem with Carrot fly so I think I might give it a go too.
Cheers,like Chris I'd rather support a small retailer.

[Glutton4...]

Ants!!? Fab, got loads of 'em, darned things.

Thanks for the recommendation, much appreciated!

[Tomatoking]

Thanks for the link Paul. We were discussing biological control on another thread the other day as someone had visited a large nursery when they were using it.
I used it commercialy 30 odd years ago and thought there must be someone now supplying the public.

Just a quick comment about using it, the predators do always need something to feed on, or they will die, so if using it for say white fly and spider mite on tomatoes, you will still always see some white fly and mites, but only in small numbers.

Thanks again, a very handy link for my blog. I am sure you friend will not mind a free plug for her product.

Mr TK

[alexkid909]

Did anyone have any success with this treatment? I've just cleared out my entire harvest of Shallots with an Onion Fly infestation, this looks like a good treatment if it works.