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turbo574

How to get rid of freakin Fungus Gnats!

turbo574
13 years ago

Hey guys,

I grow tomatoes and peppers indoors and I got a bad batch of soil that apparently had Fungus Gnat larvae in it...givien I am indoors in an APT they are all over the place flying everywhere...

Dishes of water/vinegar certainly kills a portion of them but not before they lay eggs in the soil and produce their own bumper crop!

I am tried of trying to kill the flies and I want to kill the larvae so they are gone for good! But I wanna keep my plants organic so not pesticides allowed....

I have used Thuricide (which is apparently a bacteria used for killing certain pests) and it has helped a little bit...but alas I look in the soil and I see the little larvae all over the place if I look closely...

Any ideas?

I have thought about putting sand over the soil so they can no longer lay eggs into it....I have also though about and heard about predatory nematodes...but do not know how good they are...

Any ideas?

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