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I planted two dahlia bulbs and some hollylock bulbs in a garden box with plans to feed it to my tortoise when they get bigger and start to bloom. The plants have been doing well for a few weeks and grew quite a bit are stilll growing fine as far as I can tell but recently I discovered tons of little bugs with tiny wings all over the soil. I used organic soil, so I think the bugs came with it. I did some research and I think they are fungus gnats.. not positive though. I know that the soil is very wet right now and I know fungus gnats like that. My mom watered then we had lots of rain, that and there was some yellow stuff growing on top of the soil (I scooped it out) before the bugs took over is why I believe they might be fungus gnats. I can try to upload some pics if anyone can identify bugs.
So far I have put a small jar filled halfway with apple cider vinegar and put seram wrap with poked holes over the jar. I also made some homemade sticky traps with yellow card stock and Vaseline, if the homemade sticky traps don't work I will just buy some. I'm also planning on trying the potato slices when I can run to the store. I have sweet potato but not sure if that will work the same?
I'm waiting for the soil to dry before I start with any sort of pesticide. I was wondering if anyone knows of safe and effective use pesticides to use since I do want to feed the plants to my tortoise. I heard neem oil is a good natural pesticide, does anyone know if that is safe or if I need to wait a period of time before feeding plants to my tortoise after using it?
Thanks so much.
So far I have put a small jar filled halfway with apple cider vinegar and put seram wrap with poked holes over the jar. I also made some homemade sticky traps with yellow card stock and Vaseline, if the homemade sticky traps don't work I will just buy some. I'm also planning on trying the potato slices when I can run to the store. I have sweet potato but not sure if that will work the same?
I'm waiting for the soil to dry before I start with any sort of pesticide. I was wondering if anyone knows of safe and effective use pesticides to use since I do want to feed the plants to my tortoise. I heard neem oil is a good natural pesticide, does anyone know if that is safe or if I need to wait a period of time before feeding plants to my tortoise after using it?
Thanks so much.