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Are garden beasties eating your freshly grown veg before you can?

Here are our top tips to help you identify pests and protect plants with environmentally friendly and economical ammunition.

If you spend your time sowing, watering and looking after plants we think it’s only fair that you get to eat some of the garden too.

Creepy crawlies are important to keeping your garden healthy so before you point a finger of blame at every creepy crawly in your garden check out our guide.

Some creatures are very popular with gardeners, like worms and bees, while slugs and caterpillars are the least popular. But, without caterpillars there would be no beautiful butterflies and without slugs hedgehogs would be hungry. Here’s some tips on how to play your part in creating a balanced ecosystem and preventing the bugs from eating ALL your food. Here’s how?

Each crop has its own enemy. So Seed Agents here is your mission:

Click on the images below for tips of how best to protect your veg patch!

Protect your Plants

Confuse your Pests

Pick Off Pests

Other Ammunition

Let us know how you got on by sending in a photo of your Secret Seed Agent work in action!

Send it either by e-mail to: fun[at]secretseedsociety.com or by post to: Green House, 26a Boat Horse Lane, Crick, Northampton NN6 7TH.

Are your veg leaves looking like lace?

It’s not only humans who love fresh tasty veg, they are enjoyed by lots of other creatures.

It is very important that we create a healthy and varied eco-system in our gardens but also I think it’s only right that if we sow, water and generally look after what we are growing we should be able to enjoy eating it.

So, what should we be looking out for?

Some creatures are very helpful for example worms and bees, but some are not so like slugs, caterpillars and fleabeetles. We all love hedgey and he depends on having some juicy slugs to gulp down.  Similarly we love the butterflies that come from caterpillars so we need to be careful.  We don’t want to kill them all we just need to prevent them eating our food but how?

Each crop has its own enemy. So Seed Agents here is your mission:

Click on the images below for tips of how best to protect your veg patch!

Protect your Plants

Confuse your Pests

Pick Off Pests

Other Ammunition

Send it either by e-mail to: fun[at]secretseedsociety.com or by post to: Green House, 26a Boat Horse Lane, Crick, Northampton NN6 7TH.