The Amenity Sports Turf Industry has had the registration for this useful fungicide active ingredient with a dual use for earthworm cast suppression revoked by the EU Ministers earlier this year meaning that you are going to see an abundance of earthworm casts on your sports pitch or golf course this autumn.
The garden retail product to deter lawn worm casts is CastClear, marketed by The Lawn Company who have sold over 10,000 litres of the product since they entered it into garden retail back in 2012. At that time, there had not been a domestic approved, non-pesticide product in the garden retail industry for some 20 years or so prior to the arrival of CastClear.
The problem with preventing worm casts on larger areas with CastClear at 20 Litres per Hectare is the need to repeat the application every 17-20 days or so at one third of the initial dose rate.
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