Got ants and snails in your potted plants at home? Here are a few tricks to easily control them
"All things grow by the sun" - this saying is not just idle talk. With the sun, flowers and plants grow well, and insects, snakes and ants do just as well. Especially when summer brings that particularly fierce sun, just a few ants and snails, earthworms and grasshoppers in a flower pot can throw a party, and your flowers will be sacrificed just like that. So how do you deal with these annoying insects and ants?
What are the surefire ways to wipe out ants?
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Ants are densely packed and really annoying, so just use these 2 methods to solve it!
1. Spray and kill with tobacco water
Boil shredded tobacco or chopped tobacco leaves in water for about 1 hour, until it turns dark brown, then take it out, add water to dilute it to a light brown color, and after it cools, pour it into the flower pot and water thoroughly.
You can also spray the diluted tobacco water on the stems and leaves of the plant, watering once every 7-10 days. After 2-3 times, there will be no more ants in the flower pot.
2. Spray and kill with chemicals
Use Miehaoling to spray the surface of the potting soil and around the flower pot. Be careful not to spray it on the flowers and leaves. Generally once every 5 days, and 5 consecutive sprays can control the ant infestation.
What are the surefire ways to wipe out earthworms?
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Many gardening enthusiasts think that raising earthworms in flower pots can loosen the soil and make the potting soil breathable. But in fact, potted soil has limited nutrients and not enough space for activity. Once earthworms crawl in, they only compete for nutrients and also nibble on the root system, doing a hundred harms and not a single good. So if there are earthworms in the pot, they must be wiped out.
1. Soak the pot in clean water
Earthworms are afraid of being stifled, and lack of oxygen will make them crawl out of the soil surface. So you can soak the flower pot in a basin of clean water, with the water surface covering the potting soil. After about 1 hour, the earthworms will crawl out of the water. This method is simple and effective, but it is not suitable for flowers with sensitive roots that cannot tolerate moisture, such as peonies, cyclamens, cacti, bougainvilleas, and so on.
2. Spray and kill with garlic water
Garlic has a very strong insect-repelling and sterilizing effect. First water the potting soil thoroughly once, find 3-4 cloves of garlic, crush them, add clean water to make garlic water, and use it to water the flowers. After a while, the earthworms will crawl out of the soil surface. At this point, use tweezers to pick them up and wipe them out.
3. Spray and kill with chemicals
If there are many earthworms, you can use dichlorvos emulsion diluted 1000 times to drench the soil, once every 7 days, and 2-3 times will be enough.
What are the surefire ways to wipe out snails?
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The hot and humid summer climate is very suitable for snails to reproduce. If you find several notches and holes appearing on the flowers and leaves for no reason, as if bitten by insects, then you should check whether there are snails under or around the edge of the flower pot. There are the following methods to wipe out snails:
1. Kill by sprinkling salt
First clean up the dead grass and dead leaves on the surface of the potting soil, then sprinkle a layer of salt on top. Snails are most afraid of salt, and after a while they will dehydrate and die. Quicklime or plant ash can also be used instead.
2. Spray with leftover tea water
If there are not many snails, first use tweezers to directly catch the snails, then take leftover tea, add water, and let it sit for 1-2 days. After slight fermentation, spray it around the flower pot, which can have a preventive effect.
3. Spray and kill with chemicals
If there are a lot of snails, you can buy some snail-killing agent or mosquito repellent, dilute with water and spray, once every 10 days or so, and 3-5 consecutive times will be enough.
What are the surefire ways to wipe out centipedes?
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If there are too many and too densely placed flower pots in the yard or on a first-floor balcony, resulting in poor ventilation and light transmission, centipedes will breed. Centipedes like humid and dark environments. The following 3 methods can be used to wipe out centipedes:
1. Spray and kill with insecticide
If you find a relatively large centipede in the flower pot, you can directly find a stick and beat it to death. For small centipedes in large numbers and moving frequently, use the household aerosol insecticide for killing mosquitoes and flies, and spray it at them several times to kill them.
2. Sprinkle tea seed cake powder
You can sprinkle some tea seed cake powder on the surface of the potting soil, then water thoroughly once. The tea saponin in tea seed cake can kill young small centipedes and drive away large centipedes. Tea seed cake is also a natural high-quality organic fertilizer, but note that tea seed cake dissolved in water is somewhat alkaline, so it is best not to use it for flowers that prefer acidic soil.
3. Spray and kill with chemicals
Agricultural avermectin or Baichongling, after being diluted with water, can also kill centipede larvae, drive away large centipedes, and at the same time wipe out other pests. It has very low toxicity and is suitable for household use.
What are the surefire ways to wipe out cockroaches?
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Gardening enthusiasts should not think that cockroaches only appear in unnoticed places such as wall corners, cracks, and kitchen corners. In fact, there are also cockroaches in flower pots, hiding one by one in the soil. By the time you find them, the flowers have long been ruined. There are 3 little tricks to wipe out cockroaches:
1. Cockroach house
Place a cockroach house around the flower pot. It can suck in and trap cockroaches, ants, and other insects, but it needs to be cleaned after a while. Cockroaches have a relatively high demand for water to survive, so gardening enthusiasts must pour out the accumulated water in the pot.
2. Spray and kill with chemicals
Use 2% trichlorfon or dichlorvos solution, mix it into crumbled steamed buns or other food at a ratio of 1:3, and sprinkle it on the surface of the flower pot at night to effectively kill cockroaches.
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