Even the best potting soil can become moldy, pest-infested, or compacted if improperly stored. It’s common for bags of potting soil to harbor gnats and other insects, egg sacks, larvae, or seeds ...

When potting on, add a dusting of ... It lays its eggs in the soil at the base of the plant. ... Slugs are an issue for many garden vegetables, and whatever your slug regime, ...

Fungus gnats love to lay their eggs in damp potting soil. The eggs become larvae, which feed on fungi in the soil (hence their name). The larvae are around 1/4-inch long with a shiny black head ...

A benefit for using egg shells for soil fertiliser is down to the shell’s high level of calcium ... While it's a common belief that crushed eggshells deter slugs and snails, ... Potting Mix: Mix ...

Most slugs live in the soil in the day, coming out at night to feed - here’s how to keep them at bay . ... Carob and Common Ground beetles can eat a lot of slug eggs and baby slugs.

The eggs mature slowly over winter and hatch fairly rapidly. The fast-growing slugs wait it out, showing up in spring to scrape and shred plant leaves with tongues lined with thousands of tiny ...

And get this − the adult leopard slug tracks down other slugs, snails, slug eggs and even its own kind to eat. ... They eat and then digest organic waste which in turn fertilizes the soil.

According to The Spruce, slugs can lay as many as 40 eggs in one cluster. ... Tomatoes will grow bigger and juicier if one thing is added to soil now.