Garden Pests and Diseases: No more voles - Mole Crickets!!, 1 by mygardens

mygardens wrote:
garden6 - We heard about a soap solution method at http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/orn/turf/pest_mole_crickets.ht... . They say "1.5 oz of liquid dishwashing soap in 2 gal of water with a sprinkling can to 4 sq ft of turf," We did that but it produced no results, yet every time we dig we find more crickets and several egg pockets (photo below). Believe me, after what they do to our garden, when we do dig one up, we have had no trouble putting them in a jar ourselves.

We did not know what all that soap would do to our vegetbles so we only tried it in one area. Maybe we should do it more. Do you know of any problem planting in the beds after use of the detergent?? Apparently it is highly unusual to find these creatures in this neck of the woods.