It’s not just gardeners who venture out to the allotment, kitchen garden or vegetable plot when the weather warms up; there’s a crowd of undesirable garden pests who awaken from their winter slumber and they’re in a hungry mood!

You’ll find slug eggs are hatching, the warmth in the greenhouse is enticing out red spider mites and aphids are beginning to wing their way in from winter host plants – and they’ve all got a taste for the seedlings and young plants you’ve been carefully nurturing.

There’s no denying that spring is arguably the busiest time down at the allotment or in the kitchen garden and vegetable patch so it’s hardly surprising that you take your eye off the pest control ball briefly. Problem is, that could lead to all sorts of problems should pests manage to get a foothold in the garden or greenhouse - never has the ‘prevention is better than cure' phrase rang truer – so a little reminder of what you could and should be doing in the garden pest-wise would be priceless.

And that’s where we come in! Our new pest control expert Julian Ives has been instrumental in producing a monthly programme of garden pest control advice, delivered straight to your inbox! The e-newsletters are packed full of information on the pests you can expect to drop in to visit, which organic pest control solutions from our Natural Choice range are ,most appropriate and even advice on netting and fleece crop protection measures. As the information will arrive with you each month, you can be sure it’s bang up to date and relevant to what’s happening, pest-wise, in your garden right now!

You can see a taster of a previous monthly pest buster e-newsletter above and if you’d like to receive a copy regularly – and don’t forget you can unsubscribe at any time at the press of a button – just click here.