- Jan 18, 2020
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It's probably too late but here goes.
The wife and I bought 6 large bags of the above at Costco, seemed like a great way to start out this year.
The saga began in early April, but after planting tomatoes, thyme, and several different hot pepper plants along withb a bunch of oramentals, but in a few days we had a swarm of tiny flies around the new starters.
They looked just like house flies but were tiny.
I googled and found out they are/were fungus gnats, and their eggs are resident is organic soils.
The eggs hatch and then the larve feasts on new growth root systemss, after which the flies emerge and swarm only to lay more eggs in the soil and so on.
An internet search of reviews shows that the problem has been going on for three years.
Miracle grow knows all about it!
We tried to kill them off first with neem oil, then with nematodes, then with hydrogen peroxide and finally diamtomaceous earth.
Nothing worked so we uprooted all the plants and sent them along with all the dirt and coconut baskets that 16 of the newly planted ornamentals were in to the Austin landfill.
Total monetary loss was over $300 so I called customer service and demanded a refund.
like they say, good luck with that.
The wife and I bought 6 large bags of the above at Costco, seemed like a great way to start out this year.
The saga began in early April, but after planting tomatoes, thyme, and several different hot pepper plants along withb a bunch of oramentals, but in a few days we had a swarm of tiny flies around the new starters.
They looked just like house flies but were tiny.
I googled and found out they are/were fungus gnats, and their eggs are resident is organic soils.
The eggs hatch and then the larve feasts on new growth root systemss, after which the flies emerge and swarm only to lay more eggs in the soil and so on.
An internet search of reviews shows that the problem has been going on for three years.
Miracle grow knows all about it!
We tried to kill them off first with neem oil, then with nematodes, then with hydrogen peroxide and finally diamtomaceous earth.
Nothing worked so we uprooted all the plants and sent them along with all the dirt and coconut baskets that 16 of the newly planted ornamentals were in to the Austin landfill.
Total monetary loss was over $300 so I called customer service and demanded a refund.
like they say, good luck with that.