Chiggers problem last 2 years any advice on how to deal with them?

Conniehatfield3
by Conniehatfield3
MOSTLY IN BACKYARD

  4 answers
  • Gma Kirk Gma Kirk on May 18, 2017

    #1 way is to control undergrowth, grasses and weeds height- lower growth discourages them . I am struggling to gradually convert totally overgrown property to be more human friendly, so I'm dinner right now. Lol

    I'll be following for other remedies that are environmentally friendly!


  • Rebecca B Rebecca B on May 18, 2017

    I put sulphur dust in my yard to kill the chiggers. It will make the yard smell for a few days, but the chiggers, flies, ticks and mosquitoes will be gone. There are commercial products like Sevin Dust that will also rid the yard of chiggers.

  • For 2 years we have lived in a rural part of Ga right on the Alabama line on 16 acres where there are 10 large older blueberry bushes, although I am very grateful to have blueberries year round in my freezer I did have an infestation of chiggers when we moved here. I did lots of research and found out that they gravitate toward berry bushes and how to get rid of them which I did and it worked perfectly and no more bites while walking b them or picking them.

    5 tablespoons soap to 1 gallon of water

    OR

    1 heavy tablespoon soap to 1 quart of water all depending of how any bushes you have to spray or how large. Then you put it into a hand sprayer for the lesser amount or a pump type sprayer for the larger amount and spray your bushes from top to bottom and around the ground as well and them in 2 weeks again to kill any larva that has hatched. this will do it for sure as I have experience with it for the past 2 years. Good luck

  • Conniehatfield3 Conniehatfield3 on May 19, 2017

    Thanks!