Rob, with such a small area its hard to use mating disruption. If you do use it you will need to put disruptors over a much bigger area, and/or use many more. All the recs state that you need a minimum of something like 5 acres in a square or fat rectangle shape to get good results. My feeling is the greater area is stated because there need to be an overwhelming number of artificial scent trails so the odds are something like 1/100 or less that a male will ever catch onto a real trail. Remember they have a whole evening to be looking out there, and if you fool them only 90% of the time they will still win that 10% and there will be tons of moths since each mating produces so many eggs. On a smaller property one way to get more trails is to just put more lures out, for example if you were to put out 30-40 of them. I vaguely recall someone posting here who had good luck that way. I have about an acre and I have had OK but not fantastic luck with mating disruption. I have put out around 30 disruptors in that acre area but I plan on upping it to a higher concentration this year to see if I get better results. In terms of buying small quantities, there was a place selling only a few but I can't find it now. The manufacturers have all these exclusive sales regions etc and it looks like they have been busy shutting down online stores selling outside of their zones. The good news is if you get a large package if you fridge them they seem to last a long time and you could also put out the large number I think you need to do to really test the method. Scott

My external hard drive with 10 years of pictures (only 1 full year of hosta though) quit on me, so I'm resorting to what was uploaded to Flickr albums. The picture from last year shows 5 mini hosta in a bowl which I sat on a bird bath base I think it was. You cannot see much of what is beneath, because I circled it with larger hosta. In the center is an "olla" or an unglazed terracotta container which allows water to seep out and keep the hosta cooled. This year, I am still working on the smaller hosta, because they suffered badly from the winter and squirrels tumping out the soil. I decided community containers will be better for my minis. But also, I have two planting methods to hang on the fence, where they might be much safer and easier for me to access them, and NOT OVERLOOK when I am watering. Where pots of large hosta might bring down or sag a chain link fence, I could move these small guys to the chain link spaces, where I believe air circulation will be better than against a wooden privacy fence. Plus, I do not want to put wet soil where termites and rot could destroy my fence. I also brought home short lengths of cut wood, the diameter of about 12 up to 20 inches, level them, and use them to set my coffee on.....I mean, if Pottery Barn can sell them for $100 bucks for home decorating purposes, why not DIY for my garden! They work very nicely too. And even if you do not have your larger hosta in containers, setting the cut tree lengths in a bare spot between big hosta, will let you view the minis as part of the garden itself. I'm sure small hosta have a chihuahua complex anyway, and think they're just as gorgeous as their larger relatives. If I'm not mistaken, in this photo taken today you can see a couple of the tree lengths. That convention of hosta is where my main fragrant players gather.

Answers: 1) I have had the nematodes less than 1 week. It is too early to tell how well they are working. I have been vacuuming a LOT of flies off the walls today. 2) You are correct about the shipping. Home Depot ships ground and does not charge for the shipping, but for some reason mine were sent second day air. 3) I have no idea what would happen if you mailed them via USPS in a ziplock. 4) I am not impossible to find, if you look, but you need just a little more information than is available on this forum. I don't want to post my contact info here. I have a lot more nematodes than I need. (hint: I'm NOT a Hollywood actor, but if you look for one on Google, you will find me first.) And for ottis11, they don't harm composting worms. They are the same nematodes you would buy anywhere else to control fungus gnats. The nematodes I bought will live 6 months in the refrigerator.

We are using a custom cabinet guy out of Libertyville. Our kitchen cabs will cost about $25g, but it's all walnut with all the bells and whistles. Another place to check out that was very competitively priced is www.buildmykitchen.com. They have a couple of showrooms in chicago and surrounding suburbs and were easy to work with during our design phase. side note about Abt: I have loved our experience there. They beat everyone's prices and the salesperson I've worked with (Barbra Tector) was incredible. Spent hours with me on a couple different occasions (I took forever to come to decisions!!!) and frequently emailed to make sure all questions were answered. Good luck!