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Totally safe to nature. Grazers Ltd is a family business based in Cumbria.

Grazers Ltd is a family business based in Cumbria providing the effective easy solution to damage caused by grazing rabbits, pigeons, deer & geese as well as common pests such as slugs, snails, lily beetle and caterpillars. Grazers was developed in 1999 by James Over and Nina Tidswell while treating a farmers crop with trace elements . The affected crop happened to be on the edge of a wood which n

ormally received extensive damage from rabbits. After treatment, the farmer realised the crop damage was recovering rapidly although the rabbits were still there…

After some research and lots of trials in agriculture and horticulture, Grazers never looked back! Jonathan Tebb Roger is from a horticultural and agricultural background and has worked with Jim and Nina on trials of Grazers since its outset. Since Jim and Nina’s decision to retire in 2006, Jonathan and his wife Sally decided to buy the company and continue to manufacture and supply Grazers. From the outset, Grazers has always sought to produce a product range that was totally safe to nature, not just to humans, their crops and their pets, but to all wildlife. Importantly this wildlife needs to include the very pests that the products are seeking to keep away from the plants, as they play an important part in natural food chains. So, by applying the Grazers products we are in effect ‘helping our plants to help themselves’, giving them the strength to ﬂourish. At the same time, we are also leaving their pests healthy for consumption by their own natural predators, such as the birds, hedgehogs, frogs, toads etc. In turn the safer environment attracts more wildlife to the area, which will eat yet more pests

Just to reiterate, our products DO NOT HARM, anything!

04/09/2026

Organic September is a celebration of organic food, farming and sustainable living. Run by the Soil Association (SA), now in its 80th year, this campaign’s spotlight is on the simple ways to make organic part of your everyday diet. Mindful of the cost of living, the SA advises consumers to add one or two new things to your basket in season, or make organic swaps. Start with what you eat most. If you eat porridge or strawberries daily, try organic brands instead.

‘Closing the loop' is the organic farmer’s aim, making use of local resources and limiting imports. It builds fertile soils naturally, using locally sourced compost and manure, growing nitrogen-fixing plants and crop rotation. Soils in organic farms store more carbon and have higher levels of beneficial microorganisms.

Organic farming also has higher animal welfare standards. Cows eat mainly grass (a minimum 60 per cent forage), which must be primarily sourced from the same farm or locally. Animals are truly free-range, allowing them to behave naturally.

Intensive farming has hit UK wildlife, with 41 per cent of species declining since 1970. Organic farms are havens for wildlife, especially pollinators and have on average 30 per cent more biodiversity. Farmers rely on the ecosystem to keep pests under control.

Organic produce is healthier, too. A 2014 British Journal of Nutrition study showed that organic dairy products and meat contain around 50 per cent more omega-3 fatty acids. Organic meat had slightly lower concentrations of two saturated fats, and organic dairy was found to contain slightly more iron, Vitamin E and some carotenoids. Cereals, fruit and vegetables had up to 68 per cent more antioxidants.

At Grazers, natural growing and gardening for wildlife are our key aims. Having a healthy garden ecosystem provides food for all creatures. Chemicals that kill herbivores also get rid of omnivores and carnivores. If there’s nothing to eat, they leave and your garden ecosystem crashes. Our Woolch mulch, made from Cumbrian waste sheep’s fleece, provides a natural way to conserve water, suppress w**ds and protect against frosts. The mulch breaks down gradually, releasing nutrients into the soil.

28/08/2026

Monday, August 31, is the last UK summer bank holiday (apart from Scotland’s, which was on August 3). People use the long weekend to get out into their gardens and often tidy up for winter. At Grazers, we’d urge you to extend your garden’s productivity. Enjoy the showers and get out into nature!

Give your garden a lift by visiting a garden centre to add late-season colour. Look for pollinator-friendly flowers, such as Asters, Rudbeckia, single chrysanthemums and Echinacea. Plant them in borders or as focal points in patio pots. They’ll be vital sources of nectar for pollinators.

If you grow your own, sow quick growers for a crop or for winter harvests. Try lettuce, spinach, land cress, purslane, beetroot, radish, coriander, spring onions, calabrese, spring greens, turnips for their green tops, Swiss chard, winter spinach and hardy Japanese onions. Sow hardy annuals, such as Consolida, Calendula, Centaurea, Limnanthes, and poppies, where they are to flower for next year. Sweet peas can also be sown now.

One of the best things you can do for your garden ecosystem is extending the flowering season. Early and late blooming plants are vital for pollinators. Plant bulbs such as daffodils, plus hellebores and anemones now.

It’s a good time to plant shrubs and trees, with warmth and moisture in the soil for rapid root growth. Choose varieties that provide autumn and winter food for wildlife - try pyracantha, crab apples and ivy (grown vertically - it only flowers and fruits going upwards).

Finally, stock up with Grazers sprays. For larger herbivores, such as deer, rabbits or pigeons, use our original G1 spray. If slugs and snails trouble your crops, give G2 a try. To save brassicas from cabbage white butterflies, spray with G3. For red lily beetles, it’s G4. All of our sprays harm no creatures or people - the active ingredients, including calcium, help the plants to help themselves, leaving them distasteful to herbivores, who move on to graze elsewhere.

20/08/2026

As summer draws to a close, it’s understandable if you take your eyes off the ball when it comes to preventing crop damage. The last of the school holidays and preparing for the new school year take up a lot of time. However, when it comes to brassicas, stars of the winter and spring veg, young plants can fall prey to ‘cabbage butterflies’ or cabbage whites.

Adults have thrived in the hot, dry conditions, keeping them active. July and August see the peak generations of the second seasonal brood, so expect damage to cabbages, kale, broccoli, etc if you haven’t prepared. Numbers have been further boosted by continental migrants, drawn by the warmer temperatures.

It’s not just one butterfly species you’re guarding against, but Grazers’ G3 spray has your back. Three main species lay eggs on brassicas - the large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae), the small white (P. rapae) and the cabbage moth (Mamestra brassicae). Watch out for the green-veined white (P. napi) and the migratory diamond-back moth (Plutella xylostella), too.

All species can be present at the same time, with holes eaten through the outer leaves. Cabbage moths (caterpillars are yellowish/brownish green, with no hairs) and small white butterflies (pale green caterpillars covered in short, velvet-like hairs) are most damaging, boring into brassica hearts. Caterpillars and excrement can be seen on plants.

The hairy, yellow and black caterpillars of the large white stay on the outer leaves. Green-veined white caterpillars are found on native plants. Diamond-back moth caterpillars feed on leaves, causing a windowpane effect, but this species can’t survive winter. Green caterpillars reach about 1cm long.

If your garden or allotment has cabbages, broccoli, cauliflowers, sprouts, turnips, swede, horseradish, nasturtiums or any other brassicas, be vigilant with your preventative spraying of Grazers’ G3. It harms no living thing, and the active ingredient of calcium helps plants to help themselves, making leaves distasteful to herbivores, which move on. Follow our instructions carefully, especially during wet weather. You can buy G3 from us online or in good garden retailers.

By leaving them in your garden, you’ll be providing a vital food source for parasitic wasps, sparrows and finches, ground beetles, spiders, hedgehogs and shrews.

10/08/2026

National Allotments Week starts today and runs until Sunday (August 16). At Grazers, it’s our mission to support allotmenteers striving to raise crops without harming the environment, so important for our native wildlife.

As allotments are basically a field crammed full of foodstuffs for herbivores, they’re bound to attract them. Our advice is to plan ahead and know your plot. If you’re troubled by larger herbivores, such as deer, rabbits or pigeons, use our original G1 spray regularly. If slugs and snails trouble your salad crops, give G2 a try. And to save your brassicas from cabbage white butterflies, spray with G3. All of our sprays harm no creatures or people - the active ingredients, including calcium, help the plants to help themselves, leaving them distasteful to herbivores, who move on to graze elsewhere.

To boost the environment, companion planting is highly recommended (marigolds with tomatoes and nasturtiums with everything). Growing pollinator-friendly plants alongside your crops will help to boost yields, too. Use our raw fleece mulch, Woolch, to deter w**ds, conserve water and guard against slug and snail damage.

National Allotment Week began in 2002 and each year aims to raise awareness of allotments and their role in helping people live healthier lifestyles and grow their food.

This year’s theme is Grow to Learn. It's a great chance to explore how allotments are vital spaces for growth in every sense: from the practical skills of growing fruit and vegetables, to mental and physical wellbeing, life lessons such as patience and resilience, and the social connections that come from growing alongside others.

You can buy our ready-to-use sprays directly from us at www.grazers.co.uk or at good garden centres nationwide.

06/08/2026

With the arrival of much-needed rain in some parts of the country, don’t let down your guard when it comes to slugs and snails.

Even though high temperatures and drought have led to fewer gastropods this summer, these little pests have evolved plenty of tricks to survive adverse weather conditions.

Their eggs can lie dormant during long dry spells, potentially for years. When moisture levels rise in the soil, eggs begin developing and can hatch in as little as 10 days. Don’t be caught off guard - stock up on Grazers G2 ready-to-use spray, which makes susceptible plants distasteful to slugs and snails, so they move on to feed elsewhere. Be aware if we have a rainy spell, you will have to apply the spray more frequently. The beauty of our spray is that it hurts no living thing, and the gastropods are still around to provide a good food source for other garden wildlife.

Prevention and persistence are the keys to success, especially in showery weather, to move these herbivores along. As an added benefit, calcium, the active ingredient, strengthens the plant in readiness for the onset of cooler weather.

A slug or snail’s life cycle consists of eggs, immaturity and adulthood - they can even reproduce by themselves if numbers are very low, but this is rare. A slug can lay up to 500 gelatinous eggs a year, which are 3-4mm across, and are laid in crevices during spring and autumn. Hatching is triggered by rainfall, just like this week, providing the necessary moisture for the eggs to develop. As well as applying G2 spray to susceptible plants, check damp crevices for the eggs and scatter them on the surface so birds can easily find and eat them.

Find all of our sprays online at www.grazers.co.uk or at good garden centres nationwide.

31/07/2026

Happy Lughnasadh (pronounced loo'nass'ah) for tomorrow, August 1! It’s one of the pagan fire festivals, which split the year into four quarters. Celts honoured the god Lugh at this time. Later, the Anglo-Saxons marked the festival of hlaefmass - loaf mass or Lammas (first harvest).

This was the first day of the harvest, a massive event for these agricultural communities, when reaping would begin. The harvest would continue until Samhain (Halloween), when the last crops for winter would be stored.

Take a moment to spare a thought for the importance of our harvest, both for our farmers and gardeners, whether gathering in cereals, fruits or vegetables, especially in a summer of drought, heatwaves and wildfires and food insecurity.

Think of Lughnasadh as celebrating the joy of life, with the abundance of produce, opposed by the tension with the knowledge that darker nights are drawing in, and most of the harvest is not brought in and stored away. The celebration of Lughnasadh includes the ritual cutting of the first grain.

Here at Grazers, we like to take a wider view of the world and appreciate our farmers and gardeners. We work with Cumbrian sheep farmers to create a market for their fleeces by creating our multi-purpose mulch, Woolch. And our four sprays to ward off critters cause no harm to any living thing. Whether it's rabbits, deer, pigeons, slugs, snails, cabbage white butterflies, or red lily beetles, they simply move on to feed elsewhere, helping to maintain a varied garden or agricultural ecosystem.

For more on our G1, G2, G3 or G4 sprays, or our Woolch mulch, visit www.grazers.co.uk. Celebrate the day with some freshly baked bread, fruit pies and newly picked produce!

24/07/2026

PLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE!

As the third heatwave of the year continues in some parts of the country, we at Grazers were shocked at new findings about the plight of bumblebees. It has always been our mission to create diverse and resilient garden ecosystems, providing enough plants for pollinators, and this is especially true now.

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BCT) has predicted sharp falls in UK bumblebee numbers in the more frequent and intense heatwaves the country is now suffering. The BCT’s long-standing monitoring scheme has revealed a decline in populations after the heatwaves of 2022.

We are now regularly reaching temperatures in the range where bumblebees struggle to fly without overheating. Our native species are adapted to a cooler climate. Their fat, furry bodies retain heat and powerful flight muscles warm them as they fly. In a heatwave, the muscles create more heat, and they can’t effectively cool down thanks to their round body shape and hairy coats.

They also face dwindling food supplies if flowering plants dry up due to drought. Colonies depend on workers supplying nectar and pollen. So how do we help?

Creating diverse flower-rich habitats, both drought and flood-tolerant, to combat either extreme weather. Even a pot of native flowers can help.
Put in a pond, even a tiny one, as flowers growing near water tend to produce nectar with more moisture in it. Bumblebees get most of their water from nectar, so this makes colonies more resilient.
Plant areas of shade, using shrubs. As well as their flowers, bees can escape the sun’s heat.

Don’t use any garden chemicals that can harm bumblebees and other pollinators. All of our Grazers sprays cause no harm to any living thing, so you can be sure we’re on your side in the battle to save our precious bumblebees.

17/07/2026

With the third heatwave of the summer approaching a fortnight in duration and more than eight million households living under hosepipe bans, our gardens are suffering from heat stress and drought. There’s no sustained rainfall forecast in the short term, according to the Met Office. If you’re lucky, you’ll catch the odd shower or thunderstorm, but that’s it.

Last week, we at Grazers told you how our Woolch mulch, made from Cumbrian fleece, can help you with water management (see our previous post if you missed it). However, there are things you can do to help your most susceptible plants and conserve water.

These water companies now have hosepipe bans: Affinity Water, Anglian Water, Cambridge Water, South East Water and Southern Water. A hosepipe ban (Temporary Use Ban) means you cannot use one to water a garden or plants, wash vehicles, paths, patios or windows, or fill a swimming pool, paddling pool or hot tub. You could be fined up to £1,000 for breaking a ban.

However, you can still water plants using a watering can or bucket. Using a hosepipe for some activities is still allowed, but check your water company’s website for exclusions. These are usually the watering of crops, or recently planted trees and shrubs. Some low-water-use irrigation systems are also allowed. You can use a hose if that water is not sourced from the mains, such as grey water (eg, waste water from washing clothes), rainwater from a water butt or water from a private borehole.

Target susceptible plants like broad-leaved herbaceous perennials (hostas, Rodgersias), crops, newly-planted shrubs, and potted plants. Move container plants to a shady, north-facing site where it is cooler and cluster pots together.

09/07/2026

With yet another heatwave upon us, and hosepipe bans in some areas, plants, especially those in pots, are really starting to suffer. Luckily, our Woolch mulch was made to help out in conditions of extreme heat and drought.

It’s made from raw sheep’s fleece from Cumbria that farmers could not otherwise sell, so it’s a sustainable, natural resource, closing the production loop. Woolch naturally will break down over time, releasing micro-nutrients into the soil.

A few years back, we started experimenting with fleece offcuts during a previous heatwave, using them as an improvised capillary matting laid over some recyclable plastic sheeting to help container plants. It worked well and can still be used like this, but we find the following is a good general way to use Woolch:

Place a 2” (5cm) layer around plants. Prioritise those that need damp soil, such as plants in pots and newly planted seedlings, after watering. Pat down firmly and water so that the wool fibres mat together (it forms a ‘felt’, so it doesn’t blow away). This helps to prevent water loss. In wet years, Woolch will help prevent excessive w**d growth and acts as a slug and snail repellent when fresh.

With such a dry spell, we need to change our habits and not get the garden hose out constantly. Not only is it costly if you have metered water, but our islands have finite resources - we cannot afford to waste this most precious of liquids.

Try installing water butts to collect rainwater. Place these under downpipes and link extra ones together with extension kits. Even a water butt placed next to a greenhouse or shed will fill up in winter. In our unpredictable climate, we need to take a multi-layered approach to protect our plants.

To buy a 50-litre container of Woolch, which is dispatched in a recyclable paper compostable bag, visit our website.

11/06/2026

We often get asked: ‘Are Grazers products safe for pets and wildlife?’ We’re glad to say yes to both! Many new or inexperienced gardeners are often fearful that ornamental plants or garden products will be poisonous, but we can assure you that all our sprays are harmless to living things. They act by making the plants distasteful to the herbivores that feed on them, so they move on to graze elsewhere, with no harm done.

It’s been such a good year for plant growth so far, and we’ve noticed an uptick in the number of pollinators, especially bees and butterflies. Protect that lovely growth with our ready-to-use sprays. You can safely use our original G1 spray, which deters large herbivores (deer, pigeons, rabbits and geese); G2 (slugs and snails); G3 (cabbage white butterflies) and G4 (red lily beetle) around your pets.

Grazers has a strict ‘no harm to any living thing’ ethos. Our four formulations encourage plants to fortify themselves against attack, with calcium as the active ingredient. This leaves plants - and the creatures that feed on them - as vital food sources to predators, and no harmful chemicals enter the food chain.

We advise gardeners to leave an area of their plot ‘wild’. What are w**ds to some are vital habitats and food sources to herbivores. It helps if the ornamental plants you grow are good for pollinators - easy-to-grow annuals like Calendula (pot marigolds), sunflowers and nasturtiums.

For more information on our animal-friendly products, follow the link in our bio or visit www.grazers.co.uk.

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