Biological control special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If you’re looking for a sustainable way to control garden pests, delve into this episode on the weird and wonderful world of biological controls. RHS expert entomologist Andy Salisbury explores the fascinating history of how certain bugs and beasties were introduced as pest controls (with many successes... and some disasters), and food and nature writer Eugenia Bone explains how fungi have a potentially vital role. Plus, RHS scientist Magdelena Boshoff explains how to successfully apply nematodes to control pests in your garden.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of.
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth.
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.6	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:29.6	Ladybirds, parasitoid wasps, nematodes, fungi?
0:35.6	If you're looking for a sustainable way to control pests in your garden, this is the show
0:40.9	for you as we're delving into the weird and wonderful world of biological control.
0:46.2	Bio-control, it's a phrase we hear a lot, but what does it actually mean?
0:50.3	It's the control of one organism by another organism.
0:55.0	Meet Andy Salisbury, the RHS's principal entomologist.
0:59.0	He will be exploring the fascinating history of biocontrol,
1:03.0	looking at how it transformed certain trades and made gardeners' lives easier.
1:09.0	RHS scientist Magdalena Boshoff will be getting to grips with using nematodes in our gardens.
1:15.6	What are they? How do they work and how can we use them to control pests?
1:20.8	And Eugenia Bone, Food Nature writer, is taking us underground as she digs into fungi's potential as a biocontrol.
1:29.3	I'm Guy Barta and welcome to gardening with the RHS.
1:38.3	The biological controls available to us home gardeners are either predators
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