I was amazed by a Home depot Ethiopian employee. I told him about gnats.. he had no clue, but looked online and tried to explain to me with his broken English and he highly recommended this earth thing, but it was too pricey for me, he also told me about Borax and I am researching how to best use it.
He also told me to grow Chrisantemum, harvest the middle, dry it up ( has some natural Phyritin not sure of the spelling, it is poisonous to flies) and sprinkle everywhere in the garden, flies hate that stuff. I guess it works like the stinky marigolds, but no time to grow and harvest...so, he recommended I water with mosquito dunk and use the fly traps and consider this earth for my future pots... (I gave everyone a huge dunk of the mosquito dunk, so I may have drowned them... only time will tell) I just cannot stand those gnats anymore. i was gone for 3 days and they invaded. Since I did the dunking, seems to be working. I had no wilting yet.