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Leatherjackets - trying out nematodes

Update About two weeks after treatment it is begining to look like the nematodes are working. The brown patches are greening up after a quite a lot of a rain. Original post Earlier this year we suffered from leatherjacket damage, direct to the grass roots and subsquently when badgers dug up the grass to eat them. There is no longer any chemical control available for cranefies so we are tring nematodes. Read more →

Badgers digging up the lawn

Badgers caught digging up our lawn First the lawn was attacked by leatherjackets, which left large bare patches. Then starlings came to feast on the leatherjackets and that was fine because the pull them out surgically leaving small neat hole - good to aerate the lawn. But now we have badgers, who are not nearly as neat. This is what the damage looks like The red crocs are mine, not the badgers’. Read more →