At the moment they are living on top of the airconditioning unit. Not the most ideal place but it has to do at the moment, as there really isn't much more space. I think the final straw was when I saw them riddled with red spider mites and decided to oust, spray, and hope. Lets see how they cope with the cooler, changeable weather outside (the strawberries that is, not the spider mites, I think i eradiacted them all.)
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I couldn't get rid of my mites. I had to pull all of my okra up, and then I pulled up the one stray bean and the one stray zucchini, just in case - they had a few patches of unwanted visitors too - but I have just seen a few stray ones on my strawberries as well...stupid, horrible little things
Lisa - I'm so sorry to hear that! I ended up using pest oil, totally bad for the environment, but I know something worse for the environment - Prue on an anger rampage after mites blighted her garden! It's the lesser of two evils really ;) Got your autumn planting underway? Any room inside your place for a tomato plant??? (I have extra seedlings hehehe for the winter plant experiment, ooops)
Haven't spotted mites but those ants I'm not fond of either. Recently picked up a companion planting book to help with pests.
Probably - we have quite wide sills. I have just brought inside some cuttings that were failing, and a strawberry runner that looked like it was going to die - although you should know that I have had absolutely no luck with tomatoes thus far. Wilt and mould and plain old cold combined against me.
Isn't it a bit cold for tomatoes now?
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