Please help! Mole crickets in my tomatoes garden

[Allisa]

Please help! Lots of mole crickets in my tomatoes garden! Asked local nursery garden centers to no avail. Please suggest something that what would be safe to use in vegetable garden to kill them?

Also, this year I got lots of gophers. Tried to get rid of them with Sweeney's mole and gopher repellent granules, but they're still there. Maybe something else available out there, safe for vegetable garden and effective?

[twillis2252]

Use standard dish washing detergent. You can make suds in a five gallon bucket pour on one of their mounds. The critters will crawl out of their den. Be sure and step and obliterate them!

You can also pour some detergent directly on the mounds and use a garden hose to make suds to destroy them.

In the Lowcountry of SC they have always been a nuisance in the Spring...

[Allisa]

Originally Posted by twillis2252

Use standard dish washing detergent. You can make suds in a five gallon bucket pour on one of their mounds. The critters will crawl out of their den. Be sure and step and obliterate them!

You can also pour some detergent directly on the mounds and use a garden hose to make suds to destroy them.

In the Lowcountry of SC they have always been a nuisance in the Spring...

Thank you very much! Is any part of the day better (morning, evening, mid day), or it doesn't matter?

[twillis2252]

Originally Posted by Allisa

Thank you very much! Is any part of the day better (morning, evening, mid day), or it doesn't matter?

Some people say dusk is the best time. Be sure and use the cheapest dish washing liquid available, Dollar General, Aldi etc. No need for a de-greaser like you find in Dawn! LOL!

[Allisa]

Originally Posted by twillis2252

Some people say dusk is the best time. Be sure and use the cheapest dish washing liquid available, Dollar General, Aldi etc. No need for a de-greaser like you find in Dawn! LOL!

Thank you! I'll give it a try.