10 BEST
You can DITCH THE CHEMICALS and still have a gorgeous garden
1 SLUG IT OUT
The Grazers range contains calcium and natural plant extracts that convince pests that the plant is inedible, so they go lunch elsewhere. Grazers G2 wards off slugs & snails, with formulations for other pests too. £11.99/350ml/ makes 10L grazers.co.uk
2 NO FLIES ON ME!
Are your houseplants plagued by annoying black sciarid flies? They’re easily avoided with a mulch of Sciarid Zoot Off. Using waste from the olive oil industry, it prevents flies laying eggs. £12.50/1.7kg/ treats 1.2m2 greengardener.co.uk
3 BOXING CLEVER
Protect your shapely shrubs with a Box Tree Moth Pheromone Trap. Box is a fave meal for this moth’s larvae, and the trap uses a pheromone (sex hormone) to attract and contain randy males, breaking the lifecycle. £16.99 dragonfli.co.uk
4 NET WORTH
Enviromesh is a fine mesh netting that prevents flying insect pests getting at your precious fruit and veggie plants.
Just throw over the plants, bury the edges and peg or weigh down. Enviromesh Standard, £19.99/4.5m x 2.1m agralan.co.uk
FAIR COP
Copper gives slugs and snails a tingling electric shock. Put copper tape around pot rims and on the tops of raised beds but check for pests first or you’ll just be keeping them in! Defenders Slugs Away Barrier Tape, £5.50/4m diy.com
6 SHOCK TREATMENT
The electric Hozelock Green Power Evolution Thermal Weeder zaps weeds on driveways, paths and patios with a thermal shock of 600°C that bursts the plant’s cells so they shrivel up and die. Kap
