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Old 26-07-2005, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Hogg
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:21:48 +0000, and-rea
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Dear gardening experts
One of my most beloved houseplants (a potted 'busy lizzie'), while
doing well, appears to have an infestation of silvery flea-sized
crawling insects in its soil. I've sprayed both soil and plant three
times now at weekly intervals with the Baby Bio Organic Houseplant
Insecticide but the critters keep coming back. Will re-potting do the
trick? None of my other houseplants seem to have this problem.

Are they actually harming the plant, or do you just want to be rid of
them? Chances are they're just little grubs living in the soil and
not actually doing any harm. But if you do want to be rid of them, add
insecticide to the water (at the recommended strength) the next time
you water the bizzie lizzie, and drench the soil rather than just
spraying it.


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Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net
Thanks for the advice - I'll try that. I don't think they are actually harming the plant, or not yet anyway...
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