Eliminating cockroaches in my greenhouse!!

[vmax3000]

I hate them with a passion. I sort of transform into a swearing, crazed shoe-wielding maniac when I find them in the house. My husband fears for any decorative porcelain.... As of late, I have been overwhelmed by the population growing in my greenhouse. I have a toad and a lizard as rent free residents (or maybe I am the interloper!?!?) and the various unidentified spiders "hanging" around, so I really would prefer to find some method of knocking the roach population back without risking my health or the health of the other creatures. Any ideas? Are my standards too high? Thank you for any creative or funny comments, as well as experience!
Yours,

[vmax3000]

Sorry, I am still new to the board and just discovered this needs to be in the pest topic.

[Dorothy]

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[nurseryman]

Originally Posted by vmax3000

I hate them with a passion. I sort of transform into a swearing, crazed shoe-wielding maniac when I find them in the house. My husband fears for any decorative porcelain.... As of late, I have been overwhelmed by the population growing in my greenhouse. I have a toad and a lizard as rent free residents (or maybe I am the interloper!?!?) and the various unidentified spiders "hanging" around, so I really would prefer to find some method of knocking the roach population back without risking my health or the health of the other creatures. Any ideas? Are my standards too high? Thank you for any creative or funny comments, as well as experience!
Yours,

Hello Vanessa,
Are these actual cockroaches?....its not that I disbelieve you, its in Britain we have an insect that gets called 'a cockroach' but infact its a devils coach horse!
All that aside, I believe these creature come out at night?....so get in there with a torch, no better still get someone else in there with a torch and either collect them, or squish them....or better still get more toads,frogs,etc....good food for such.
I think Kew use other reptiles as well as those you have to rid them of a similar problem, as the 'roaches' do a lot of damage to palms and other plants.

Rich

[Gin]

When we first moved here I had a problem with them in the green house .
I don't have any animals in the greenhouse . I use the Home defense sprayed around the outside of the green house and inside on the floor near the walls . Can't use it with critters around tho. Gin

[Des]

I use a fogger it will not kill the frogs and lizards but will kill spiders and others . You have to repeat about 7 days later ,as the female roach lays its egg sack as it dies and the sack protects the young . By doing this I have managed to rid my greenhouse of them.