Neem Cake Fertilizer 100% Organic

I purchased this mainly for its pest control capabilities-- to be able to work the neem cake into the surface of the soil (or into a soil mix) as an insect repellant throughout my garden. We use this as part of a multi-pronged attack on our pests, which include spider mites, japanese flea beetles and cabbage looper moths, in conjunction with other application methods (like Bio-Neem) and other organic pest control methods. This is a really awesome product because of its two-fold nature-- there aren't many substances that function as an insect repellant AND a fertilizer. Granted, as a fertilizer, it is limited in use (for me that translates into "goes well with other ingredients in a custom soil mix"), but it can be used in multiple ways. Important to note that I would NOT consider this as a SINGLE method of pest control. Please look elsewhere if your main goal is to get rid of spider mites or other pests. This is a TOOL which can be used towards that end, but alone, it is highly unlikely to succeed (without a herculean effort).

Came pelletized. Some powder in it. cheapest in price point that i have found. Didn't seem very strong. Update. Has kept mealy bugs and insect lave away from base of plants. Up one star

The product itself is wonderful! I used it to make a neemtea and my fungus gnats disappeared over night. However, this product was over a week and a half late, thus I cannot give it a high rating.

This is working better than I thought it would for fungus gnats. just put this around the base of the plant. The other thing I am doing is putting it in the water, so I am really getting rid of the pests. The only downside, is that I am now having to kill the adult gnats. But they are no longer laying eggs.

After using garden soil with potted seedlings and noticing a huge amount of fungus gnats thriving in my house, I looked online and read that a good 'top dressing' and 'soil soaking' of neem cake would do the trick. Doesn't 'top dressing' sound nice.. well.. here's the thing. I should have listened to the other reviewers who mentioned that it did nothing against fungus gnats because, it didn't. I incorporated it into soil, did soil drenches and a top dressing. The fungus gnats loved it. They bathed in it, laughing happily, chuckling as I spent near $100 or more on lots of these pretty little tubs of yummy 'neem cake'. The only positive is that my sunflowers thrived. Other seedlings seemed to die though so neem make have an adverse effect on roots( exposed to it directly?) of newly potted seedlings. SAVE YOUR MONEY FOLKS. IT DOES NO-THING AGAINST FUNGUS GNATS. Try the yellow stickie traps instead. That works wonders.

Doesn't cover much crop and didn't see benefits from using it.

Awesome product, will be back to do more business with you.. Thanks, Marcus T.

This stuff really works. It actually kills fungus gnats.