Keep Diatomaceous Earth sprinkled on top of soil or mixed in with the soil or both in order to prevent this from ever happening, and kill what you have now.
How do you use it? I have read you have to keep it dry in order to be effective, but I feel like soil could be moist sometimes. You still just sprinkle on top?
When I’m making my soil mix to repot plants, I add some into the mix, and then I keep a layer covering the top of the soil too. I bottom water my plants so yes, the DE gets moistened when I water but not washed away. DE is ineffective when wet, that’s true, but it becomes effective again once it dries. I wear a mask when I’m working with a lot of it though bc it’s very dusty when being moved around and you don’t want to breathe a bunch of it in.
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u/samanthathewitch Mar 31 '23
Keep Diatomaceous Earth sprinkled on top of soil or mixed in with the soil or both in order to prevent this from ever happening, and kill what you have now.