Comments on: How to Grow Cat Grass

on 5/2/2008 Those aren't fruit flies, they are fungus gnats. They feed on the decaying matter in soil and can be very difficult to get rid of.

Adding a spoonful of vinegar to the water you water your plants with can disrupt the egg/larva part of their lifecycle.

Letting your plants dry out thoroughly between waterings (if the plants witll tollerate it) can help to control them.

The best solution I have found is to purchase the yellow sticky traps from a gardening centre - they are nontoxic, the gnats are attracted to the yellow and wind up stuck to the trap.

on 4/7/2008 I hate those little things! I 've never experienced them with growing cat grass, but you might want to try putting a small jar or glass with an inch of cider vinegar and a small squirt of dish soap. I do this in the summer next to my fruit bowl and it keeps their population down. Here's another article on it too - http://www.ehow.com/how_2178788_eliminate-fruit-flies.html?ref=fuel

on 4/6/2008 And, then how do you prevent the little flying fruit fly looking critters? Have done the grass thing many times and it's inevitable that the flying critters come with it.