Some of you may recall Maru and I recently repotted all the plants in our home.
Everything looked to have gone to plan until we found spider mites and fungus gnats on one of our larger plants.
We quickly sequestered him, and I began a neem oil treatment: a spray followed by a drench in the neem oil solution.
But the bugs wouldn’t abate.
Maru then googled what a proper neem oil drench is (I’m the eyeballer, she’s the googler), and my “drench” was a light sprinkling in comparison.
So yesterday we placed our plant in the bathtub, and we poured multiple litres of the neem oil solution into the pot, ensuring the treatment reached all parts of the plant’s soil.
I don’t want to celebrate prematurely, but it’s been 24 hours, and we’ve yet to encounter a bug.
Some problems need a good drench. A light watering won’t do.