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RE: Indoor Gardening Project - Part 6 - Pest Control
I find it marvelous how everyone finds a way to be innovate when the need arises wthout breaking the bank. And I love using as many “natural processes as possible in whatever I do.
I have been very fortunate so far to never have brought in any stowaways when bringing my plants in from outdoors, and I hope to keep it that way!
Thanks for a vey informative post.
Oh lucky you to never have brought in any stowaways.
I thought I was going to be lucky this year even though I actually dug plants right out of the garden and bought them in for my indoor gardening project.
I was fine until I bought in some sphagnum moss late in the season and a few hardly last minute plants that hadn't been killed off by the frost yet. When I put the mulch on my plants it wasn't long before I noticed some aphids appearing on the plants. aphids are pretty easy to get rid of.
A couple of years ago I bought in a coleus from a plant sale and potted it up with my other coleus collection and they had mealy bugs on them - Ah-h-h! I tossed out all of my coleus for I had other more precious plants growing in my sun room. I thought I was rid of them but then they appeared on my fig tree.
I didn't want to spray the fig tree until I had picked all the figs and they got out of hand. I ended up taking cutting from the fig tree and got rid of the mother plant (it had grown real huge and I wanted the space in my sun room for other things anyway.)
I'm a little more careful now and with keep plants bought in segregatesd until I know for sure they don't have bugs.
Yeah, not crazy when I see swarms of bugs, don’t mind the odd one but when you get an infestation, yuk, lol!