12084 Organic Gardening Supplies

Does anyone know of a good reliable reasonably priced source of organic pesticides slug killers and supplies in general in Italy either mail order or at ashop/garden centre.I live near Castiglione del Lago in Umbria and the local shops here are either erratic in their restocking or are very expensive.Mail order from UK is also very expensive even though the products are reasonably priced.Also does anyone know if biological pest control eg nematodes are allowed in Italy.
Regards
Tony

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Gardening & Agriculture

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 15:12

I do admire your optimism regarding biological control of slugs, unfortunately I have succumbed to the careful use of blue pellets tho' they are carted away by ants in dry weather! I can't see any reason why nematodes should be banned as they are probably around in nature anyway.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 15:38

I have found this pdf (in Italian) about the use of nematodes to kill slugs. [url]http://www.informatoreagrario.it/ita/riviste/vitincam/home_consigli/pdf/limacce-lumache.pdf[/url]
They tell me that the Italian distributor of the wonderfully named "Nemaslug" is a company called Intrachem, and this is a link to their data page on this product. [url]http://www.intrachem.com/home.cfm?section=13&idprod=297[/url]
This company Intrachem seems to be big in biological (organic) products, so explore their site (although the Union Jack button isn't active!)
Then you'll have to ring them up (or maybe the information is somehwere on the website) and find out who stocks their stuff.