Spider Mites on Strawberry Pot Strawberries

[Tim Howell]

I've recently had an outbreak of spider mites on several of the plants in my strawberry pot. I tried a neem oil spray, but I've still got a lot of the mites and I don't want to kill my plants with the spray. I've read that moisture is bad for spider mites, so I'm spraying the plants with water from a spray bottle several times a day.

Is the water alone likely to be an effective control for the spider mites? Should I continue to use the neem oil? How often? Is there something else I can do to get rid of the mites? I don't want to spend a lot on one remedy after another, so if there is something that will be effective I'd like to go straight to that.

--TWH

[Buderschnookie]

Water alone will work but you have to blast the underneaths of every

[Jangchub]

Read the label and it will answer all these questions. I never found Neem oil to be very useful. When I get spider mites I blast the undersides of the leaves with a very strong blast of hose. It forces the mites off. It doesn't kill them, which is nice IMO.