Range Review: Pest Control Naturally safe garden
care product range Galway-based Hygeia extends organic ‘Nature Safe’ brand with the launch of an indoor plant feed range and new outdoor products to tackle all your gardening needs
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ygeia, which has been manufacturing
garden care, agricultural and veterinary products off the West Coast of Ireland for over 80 years, has announced it has extended its popular ‘Nature Safe’ range to include an indoor plant feed range and new outdoor products to tackle all your gardening needs. Nature Safe, launched in 2019, is a range of natural, organic and sustainable garden care products, including lawn care, plant feeds and natural pest repellents and now in 2023, the launch of its indoor plant feed range to meet the demand for natural options for indoor plants, or rather the houseplant enthusiast. The latest additions to the range are specifically designed, not only for the garden, but for the home too. The newly launched Nature Safe indoor plant feed range includes two products, for all indoor plant care needs: ¡ Nature Safe Indoor Plant Food 250ml: £7 for healthy, vibrant and flowering plants ¡ Nature Safe Orchid Feed 250ml: £7 for maximum immunity and healthy orchids Both products come in a 250ml bottle
format that you simply pump in to the base of the plant and add water. From a sustainability perspective they pack a punch. The bottles used are made with recycled plastic and the seaweed used in the Nature Safe range is hand harvested along the pristine Connemara coastline. Once harvested the extract is obtained by using the most natural cold press process with no heat or chemicals added. John Byrne, CEO of Hygeia comments: “Our
Nature Safe range is specifically designed to meet growing consumer demand for natural and sustainable garden care products. It makes perfect sense that consumers would want to now bring that same care inside, to use a
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natural feed for the plants in their homes, on plants that are so closely located to them, their family and their pets. With gardening season now upon us, it’s time to shop those products that are great for your garden (and home!) but that are also kind to nature.”
Natural ingredients One of the most prominent ingredients featured in the Nature Safe range and through the new indoor plant feed products is wild
Atlantic Seaweed. Hand-harvested on the
Connemara shoreline in Galway, which ensures there is complete regrowth every three years, making it the most sustainable option for Nature Safe, using nature to nurture nature, enriching the soil and the plants that we grow and eat with seaweed’s natural micronutrients. All products in the Nature Safe range
are plant-based and organic, making them completely safe for children, pets, pollinators and wildlife. In addition to the launch of the indoor plant
range, Nature Safe are introducing three new products to their impressive outdoor product line up, these include: ¡ Nature Safe Seaweed Enriched Feed 2kg: £7 – For Stronger Plant Immunity Once harvested, the seaweed extract is obtained by using the most natural cold press process with no heat or chemicals added giving plants stronger immunity. ¡ Nature Safe Rose & Shrub Feed 2KG £7 brilliant for blooms and optimum plant growth ¡ Nature Safe Fruit & Veg Feed 2KG £7 - Promotes a naturally healthy eco system Combining seaweed and plant-based nutrients, Nature Safe Fruit & Veg feed can also be used as a pre-planting feed for a naturally healthy eco system for strong, healthy plants
¡ Learn more about Nature Safe’s range of products at
www.hygeia.ie
Protect fruit and vegetables this season with beneficial nematodes
The ‘grow your own’ trend has really taken off, with more people looking to grow their own fruit and vegetables to live a more sustainable and eco-friendly life. Although growing your own crops can be incredibly rewarding it can also come with a multitude of problems from weather conditions to plant diseases and pests. There are a whole host of flies, aphids,
caterpillars and moths that cause damage to crops affecting plant growth, and quality of food. Carrot flies are notorious for tunnelling inside taproots of carrots, parsnips, parsley, and celery stunting plant growth, causing them to die. Caterpillars are also a huge problem in the garden, often found nibbling away on plant foliage, they can cause complete defoliation to plants ultimately affecting growth and reducing crop yield. However, there is a way to protect fruit
and vegetables from pests without the use of chemicals, and that is with beneficial nematodes. Nemasys Biological Fruit and Vegetable Protection uses a mix of nematode species ridding your garden of unwanted insects without affecting crops and wildlife with just one product. This product has been specifically researched and created to combat carrot root fly, cabbage root fly, leatherjackets, cutworms, onion fly, ants, sciarid fly, caterpillars, gooseberry sawfly, thrips and codling moth – all of which are common garden pests that attack most salad crops vegetables, bushes and fruit trees. Nemasys Biological Fruit and
Vegetable protection is suitable for use at temperatures above 12 degrees, perfect for use throughout the growing season between March and October. Simply water onto your plants and crops using a coarse rose, and repeat throughout the season to ensure you keep the pests at bay. ¡ To find out more about how nematodes work, take a look at this short video -
https://youtu.be/ JHNG1KSluh0 ¡ For further information, please visit
www.nemasysinfo.co.uk and follow basf_nemasys_uk on Instagram.
GCU Spring 2023
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