I'm telling you why I put Matches in flower pots. I advise all flower growers to do this

Since we moved to live in a private house, I never get tired of planting new vegetation in the form of home flowers. My husband laughs and says that the garden is not enough for me. And I just love to watch my pets, how they grow with gratitude and bloom, pleasing the eye.

Just recently, a midge in my beauties started up. This pest spoiled our life until we figured out what kind of ailment my flowers have, and how to get rid of it. I have a little more experience in this matter, so at first I panicked.

Thank you, people write useful things on the Internet, tips helped. During these two weeks I was tormented with flowers, I had to replant almost half, as I found the larvae in the ground. It turns out that these pests love moisture very much.

The new microclimate in the house, all the seasons have not yet lived, so I lost sight of the fact that the plants need to be watered less often, less sprayed.

Here's what literate people advise to protect flowers from midges:

1. Be sure to regularly loosen the soil so that moisture does not stagnate;

2. You can't literally “keep dampness” in flowers. If a green pet loves moisture very much, then you need to use, for example, expanded clay to preserve it;

3. Inspection of plants should be carried out regularly for dry and rotten leaves, fallen flowers. Rot can also serve as bait for midges;

4. Watering is carried out only with clean water! Tea, coffee or meat water can do a lot of trouble and provoke pests.

I found one more simple advice, I immediately applied it in practice - I inserted matches into pots with soil. Itself at first very surprised, but then figured out what's what. These insects do not like sulfur very much, it scares them away. And the procedure is very simple:

1. In wet soil, you need to stick matches with the heads with gray down into the pot. To a depth of about five centimeters from the soil surface.

2. Continue caring for the plants as usual. After a few days, check if sulfur is still in the soil.

3. If not, repeat the procedure - insert a new batch of matches.

Two to four passes will help put the pest to flight. In one room, I tried this method, I have four pots there. After about a week from insects and the trail was gone.

For the plants themselves, the procedure is not harmful, you don't have to worry. Now, for prevention, I always insert a couple of matches into the pot, and I advise other lovers of home plants that the midge does not appear anymore.