ABOUT HOUSEPLANTS

[iloveflowers]

I HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT WE POUR THRU OUR HOUSEPLANTS DIRT BEFORE WE BRING THEM INSIDE TO KILL ALL PEST THAT MIGHT BE LIVING THERE,IF SOMEONE BE SO KIND TO REMIND THIS TIRE OLD MIND,ICANT REMEMBER ANYTHING ANYMORE WHEN I DONT WRITE IT DOWN...T.I.A.   ILOVEFLOWERS

[Gayle]

I don't pour anything through mine but I know it's been discussed here before.  I'm sure somebody will be along with an answer  soon

[plantdoctor]

I have also never poured anything through mine.  I have sprayed some that I feared were blessed with white flies or spider mites, but the rest of them usually come in while I am in a frenzy getting plants safe from our 1st frost....bugs and all!   Charlene

[Donna-Z5]

I always give them a soapy water bath OR put them in a plastic bag for a few days to smother any creepy crawlers. You never know what's lurking in those pots and I don't care to find out either. :)

[flowerpowerz5]

I spray mine but can't remember what I use. I had a tree frog come in with one once. Got it out quick!

[Ladybird]

I never take mine outside. Had a orange tree once that was over 3ft and baby sis talked me into taking it outside in the summer. I killed it. That was the last time inside plants didn't go out. LOL

[carross]

I only take a few plants outside, and when I do bring them in, I first let them sit in the back room for a week and see if I have any bugs in the room, it has a door so can't get inside. Works best for me.

[Gayle]

I've cut way back on houseplants, only have a few cacti now.

But when I was bringing them in & out I almost always transplanted before bringing them in.  The only thing I ever found was ants.

[caden]

I once had a frog in my cactus pot luckily I put it on the front porch and there he was the next day.. also had a mouse jump out of my wren house that I cleaned out this spring..... oh those critters!

[bwatcher]

I am going to be so leary about bringing in plants from outside after last year's fiasco. It was going to freeze and so I brought all the pots in from outside. I brought in FLEAS!!!

We had to put our 19 yr. old cat to sleep due to seizures from kidney failure, and that was when I discovered she had fleas. She never ever went outside. I think the plants got the fleas from the squirrels crawling through them. I had also put plants down in the basement so I had fleas down there also. She was blind and never went down to the basement, so that's how I figured out that they came in on the flowers. Every single pot went back outside and froze. It took me 2 months to get rid of the fleas in the house. 

I don't know what my plan of attack will be this fall.