Canadian Gardening: Little flies infesting my Pansy container plant, 1 by Joan6aON

Joan6aON wrote:
DepartureBay, I had a really bad time with fungus gnats last winter - they would even fly up my nose sometimes. Ugh!

This year the plants that had been outside for the summer (all of them) were thoroughly cleaned and rinsed down, then sprayed with insecticidal soap and put under a tent for an hour or so. A layer of fine stones tops the soil in the pots, my thinking being that the gnats are going to have a hard time laying eggs with the stones in the way.

BTW, Murphy Oil Soap can be used to spray plants, diluted of course.

Here's this year's pot.

Joan