Fungus Gnats?

[audeve]

Has anyone found an effective way to deal with fungus gnats? They're the little black "fruit flies" that gather around plants. I've been told to put pennies in the soil (something with a reaction to the copper when they're watered keeps the bugs down), I've fed my plants a concoction of ammonia, oil soap, and tobacco tea, and I've read that beneficial nematodes are the way to go.

Does anyone have any suggestions or tried-n-true remedies?

[jessiebella677]

Mix a teaspoon of dish soap and a half teaspoon of oil of oregano in a windex type bottle. You can make it by the gallon just the double the recipe or even triple it. If you mix oil of oregano with rubbing alchohol it works as a bug repellent I would use a thalf teaspoon to every 8 oz spay bottle. Kills them and their babies. You can spray the plant and pour a little in the soil. I had some weird eggs on one of my grape vines and sparyed it with it and they dried up in a day or so. I also use it because we have these little black bitting flies(type on gnat). Well one mist will kill them on the spot! Most pest do not like oregano. If you put some by your veges that will help keep bugs away. It in invasive though so you have to decide which you would rather deal with.

[NurseDebbie]

make sure you spray the soil too, most of them lay eggs in the soil and when they first hatch, they just crawl, they cant fly, so douce the soil as well,