Just for your interest we noticed signs of blight in one of our other box balls and also some in our neighbours plants so we sprayed everyone’s and think we have stopped the spread of this nasty disease locally at least even though it used up our spare tablets. Topbuxus Carpet is hardwearing and it’ll last up to three years before needing replacement. You can use it around other plants too, as protective or decorative mulch. If you want a top quality fertiliser for your box plants Topbuxus Grow is a fast acting booster that encourages deep green leaves and healthy growth. Topbuxus Grow has been meticulously formulated, tested, refined, and proven in the field by Europe’s largest Boxwood nursery for their own Boxwood plants.

Nematodes can be effective against Box Tree Caterpillars. The best species of nematode you can use is the Steinernema carpocapsae. Traps and Nematodes are readily available from various outlets online. As a budding gardener, is there anything more frustrating than entering your coveted garden to find your favourite plants have been chewed up and destroyed by an invasion of pesky caterpillars? Fend them off with TOPBUXUS XenTari Raupenfrei Box Tree Caterpillar Insecticide - a powerful biological insecticide. Why do I need to use Topbuxus Grow as well as Topbuxus Healthmix? We’ve answered this question a couple of times elsewhere but these three points help to clarify why you should use both. POINT ONE: There are four primary factors that affect plant growth: water, light, temperature and nutrients. Topbuxus Grow provides all the nutrients in the correct proportions that a Boxwood plant needs. Topbuxus Grow will make your plants grow. POINT TWO: Plant health is a broad term but largely involves protecting and mitigating the adverse effects of pests, disease and other changes that may affect plants. Topbuxus Healthmix will keep your plants healthy. POINT THREE: Plants need to be healthy to grow and to keep healthy they need to keep growing. Topbuxus Grow used in conjunction with Topbuxus Healthmix is a potent combination and will ensure that your plants are constantly in tip top condition. When is the best time to use Topbuxus Health Mix? Normally during the growing season between March and October. See How to Use for more information.Do I apply Topbuxus Health Mix to the roots/base of the plant or spray all over? Topbuxus Health Mix is a folia feed and is taken in by the plant through the leaves, not the roots. Spray the plants all over and if possible apply to the center of the plant as well. I absolutely love your products, I’m a newbie to box clipping after inheriting 2 that had been neglected & left against a wall for years, both had a flat side, so I re-potted them last year & placed them in the open. I have been using Topbuxus health mix for a few years now and I believe it to be an amazing product that is easy to use and noticeably improves the health of box plants under any sort of stress in just a few weeks including discoloration, leaf spots and the first signs of box blight.

There are two tub sizes. The smaller tub of 500 grams works out at 20 pence per 10 grams of fertiliser. The larger tub of 5kg is a lot more cost effective at 7 pence per 10 grams. Hi, Your product is superb and working wonders with all my box plants. Had full recovery with one suffering with blight. I am a Head gardener on a large estate and have a large collection of box and topiary. It can easily be applied as part of regular garden maintenance. Spraying plants and hedges five times a year keeps them in good health, leaving plants less susceptible to disease including box blight. Last year I bought some Topbuxus Health Mix for a customer who had a lot of Box hedging, some of it over 100 years old and it was all infected with blight. After 3 months there was a noticeable difference and now all the bight appears to have gone and the hedge has grown about five inches. My customer is ecstatic!Take a small handful or scoop of the Topbuxus Grow granules. Then sprinkle the granules evenly on the soil around the base of each box plant. We would recommend that impervious gloves are used if you are doing it by hand.

Simply put, Topbuxus Xentari is a biological insecticide and is based on the Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. Aizawai. It is extremely effective at killing Boxtree Moth Caterpillars, those pesky blighters that are causing so much damage and grief up and down the country. It is 100% safe for humans, other animals, bees – and birds that may eat the treated caterpillars. In case you are looking for non-chemical box blight preventative treatments and products designed to make Buxus plants thrive, this range of highly effective products is just the thing. The client is totally speechless and has said that her box hedge has never looked so healthy since she has lived there. The firethorn was in trouble and she didn’t want to loose it. Every leaf had brown spot and 3 weeks later maybe a dozen leaves are left with brown spot. One box of TOPBUXUS XenTari contains 5 individual sachets, each containing 3 grams of product; Simply dissolve the contents of 1 sachet in 3 litres of water to treat 30 square meters of Boxwood surface. This makes the product easy to dose without the need of a precision scale. This moment can be more easily predicted by using a Box tree moth trap to monitor Box tree moth activity, when moths are trapped you can expect new caterpillars a couple of weeks later. XenTari is a biological insecticide containing a natural, potent strain of the microorganism Bacillus Thuringiensis subspecies Aizawai (Bta) that controls caterpillar pests.

We were delighted with the results. After two applications not only has the problem been arrested but there also seems to be some re-growth as well. TOPBUXUS XenTari Original- Professional Dosage - Against Boxwood Moth Caterpillar - Biological - Safe for Bees and Birds - Also Effective Against Oak Processionary Caterpillar

Grow formula is an easy to apply granular fertiliser that should be spread on the soil at a ratio of 50 grams per square metre. As with all fertilisers made for root absorption you should avoid getting any on the foliage as this can burn or discolour it. If your box plants already have blight using Topbuxus Carpet with the Health Mix can eradicate the infection before you lose more greenery.

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So, how does XenTari actually get rid of Box Moth Caterpillars? Well, the hungry little caterpillars eat the treated leaves of one of your plants and after one hour they stop feeding, so any damage to your plants is dramatically reduced. As a result of the biological insecticide, the caterpillars die in the next couple of days.