I have several pots of early seeds germinating on my lounge window sill using the last of the previous season's potting compost. Unfortunately i now seem to have an infeststion of tiny black flies whixh have emerged from the compost and becoming a nuisance. I obviously don,t want to scrap the pots as seeds are starting to germinate.
What can I do or use to eliminate the flies? Would lightly spraying with with a household cleaning disinfectant like Dettol spray do the trick without harming the seedlings? I have nothing else immediately to hand in my gardening stores and the compost bag is emoty now so don't want to buy a treatment that may probably not be used again.
Compost infestation
Moderators: KG Steve, Chantal, Tigger, peter
-
Pa Snip
- KG Regular
- Posts: 3091
- Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:20 pm
- Location: Near the big house on the hill Berkshire
A mild solution of washing up liquid in water, using a fine mist spray, might do the trick.
The danger when people start to believe their own publicity is that they often fall off their own ego.
At least travelling under the guise of the Pa Snip Enterprise gives me an excuse for appearing to be on another planet