What to do if there are midges in your flower pots: the matchstick trick
Sometimes indoor plant lovers encounter such an unpleasant phenomenon as midges hovering around flower pots.
According to the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , there are several reasons for this.
For example, midges can be a result of using poor quality soil or the presence of organic impurities in it.
And you shouldn’t rule out the possibility of midges getting into your apartment through open windows (of course, we’re talking about the summer period).
Instead of racking your brains over where these annoying insects came from, we suggest you quickly find out how to get rid of them.
The most ordinary matches can help with this.
If you notice midges flying around the flower, stick matches into the soil so that the head is in the ground and water the plant. Over time, the matches should be replaced with new ones.
The sulfur, phosphorus and magnesium contained in the sulfur match head will eventually pass into the soil, which is why the pests and their larvae living in it will not want to continue their existence.
