i am trying to grow white clovers and bermuda grass outside in planting pots..they will start growing well but after two weeks all of my pot's soil where infested with tiny little white bugs that kill the clovers. i even had one pot that was infested with maggots so bad that it looked like the soil was boiling....is their any organic repellants that i can use that is safe for my hatchling sulcatas??????????
growing clovers and bermuda
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Itort said:
they do not infest the plants. they are in the soil, and kill the roots. they have the shape of a football. they are about a little smaller than a flea, and there are thousands of them in each pot.
mtdavis817254 said:
In this case a picture would be worth a thousand words. Any chance you can post one??? Oh and mint mixed into the soil in the pots would help keep these or some bugs out. they almost sound like aphids but aphids infect the plants not the soil.
you can try again keeping the pots inside the house, i have bermuda growing under one of my tanks in the tank stand. i have a regular aquarium light over it
Maybe you are watering to much?? I would try the mint and maybe some ladybugs?? I don't know without seeing a picture.
They have to be in the potting soil you are using.. what else could it be? Change the soil!
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does your bermuda grow well in the tank. i was thinking about doing that as well.. i moved my new tray of bermuda in my walkway where it gets DIRECT sunlight all day,and i only mist it once in the evening.. i thought it was to hot for them in the direct sunlight because it gets to 103 degrees in this part of texas during the summer, but this pot's grass is alot darker and the blades seem to be thicker..
Redfoot NERD said:
since they are outside it COULD be insects that have made refuge in my pots.. i still threw out all the soil but that is because i used it all im my pots and they all became infested...
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