I have a question, about winterizing plants.

We have several large pots of herbs and mints we want to bring in over the winter. But we want to bring them into the living place. Normally we store plants elsewhere, with a bulb to turn on in cold weather, but this year we want to bring some pots in where we live.

Insects.

We don't want bugs and pests to be an issue inside. And we don't want toxic pesticides inside. So is there a way to prep big pots to bring inside like this? Bugs haven't been a big problem with these, but the pots could have ants, beetles, no telling what else. We don't want those crawling around the house.

All we can think of to do right now is use a little diatomecaeous earth on the earth in the pots, in case anything hatches out during the winter. Maybe the DE would stop anything that came out of the ground. Anything else to recommend?