That sucks Nox, hope your friends shut the fuck up now next time they want to bring round a shit plant for you.
Not sure if you've tried it yet, but I heard dish soap really fucks up some of the smaller pest bugs, the fatty acid in the soap basically dissolves their exoskeletons and they die from dehydrating.
Give it a search online, not sure if you need a particular brand or kind of dish soap but apparently you just mix a ratio of it with water and then spray your plants down. Might work as a first treatment to kill the weaker bugs and then you can come back for the stubborn ones with the specialist spray.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
Cheers, yea tried that. Mixed some in with need oil. I think thrips are just particularly resilient to all but the pre-bottled chemical solutions. Hopefully this time around I managed to wipe them out
Guessing this is the right thread for this. I know nothing about growing plants.
I've just bought three window sill planters for growing herbs inside. They have a water system which means I can keep em watered just by topping up and some cloth draws the water into the soil part of the planter.
My plan is to buy some growing herbs on Friday and add these to some organic soil.
Apart from watering them, do I need to do anything else? Do I need miracle grow for example or will they be ok in just soil and water?
I'll be growing oregano, lemon thyme, sage, rosemary, chives and dill.
I’d defer to the experts but it’s not clear if you’re growing them from seed?
The plants should be much stronger that way and survive better at being denuded of growing leaves more robustly?
Yeah, I think the only reason to separate herbs is if you’re worried about one dominating and spreading - not an issue on such a small scale, you can just cut back or pull out any unwanted growth.
I got this basil plant yesterday. I've never seen one like it - small leaves and purple flowers. It has very strong basil smell though, it's lovely. Can't wait to make some Thai basil chicken with it.
Ooo nice. Yeah, my understanding is mint is a bugger, but I've seen planters with lots of different herbs in. Was going for 2 he's in each 30 cm planter.