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Aphids are one of the most common garden pests, infesting and weakening our crops while spreading plant diseases.
As a gardener you have the power to fight back using organic, nature-friendly techniques to banish aphids from your garden.
In this short video we’ll share five simple but highly effective ways to bring this bothersome bug under control.
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Didn't find this helpful. Squash them all? Stupid, unless you've got a week to spare and super human dedication. Spray with washing up liquid solution? I've been doing this daily for ten days to my plum tree, and it is barely holding them back. Plant pretty flowers around my plum tree? Yeah, sure that'll scare them away.
Need to look for something better.
Im struggling with these green nasties attacking my blackcurrant and spraying with soapy water isnt working as well as it needs to. Also when do blackcurrant start to fruit?
Excellent.
I am about to try a homemade aphid killer on my dwarf Gala Apple tree at my allotment that is covered again in aphid.
It is a mix I use on my citrus trees to rid them of Spider mite.
Take a small spray bottle like a well washed out windowleen spray bottle.
HERE IS MY MIX
(1) Add 6 Tea Spoons of Malt Vinegar.
(2) Add 1 Tea Spoon of Bicarb soda (or Baking soda).
(3) Add 2 Tea Spoons of Pure Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
(4) Add 4 Tea Spoons of Organic Washing up Liquid.
(5) fill with hot Water from tap wait to settle and keep adding more hot water until the spray bottle is compleatly full of liquid minus any bubbles.
(6) Place sprayer lid back on and give a good shake for 2 mins to mix all ingredients.
Go to Apple tree and pull of any leaves that are curled.
Shake mix againe for 2 mins and spray over the whole dwarf apple tree, including undersides of leaves cover the whole tree.
After an hour of drying finish of with a Good spraying of a good quality NEEM OIL.
I will let you know how it goes, This is something I have come up with myself and need to try out but something that is 100% organic.
Many thanks from Nathan of Allotment 5W from Leicester UK
Neem oil and a drop of dish soap in water.
Trust me it does the job year after year .
Neem oil has proven to be quite beneficial. Basically, a couple of teaspoons of oil plus 1 teaspoon of washing up liquid dissolved in water will do the trick. It disrupts their breeding cycle and a spray every 6 weeks will sort the problem out. Greenfly is particularly partial, it seems to chillies in our greenhouse.
Hi check this out for aphid control on chilli plant https://youtu.be/W4UHNjy-bek
When is the proper time to spray? Morning ? Or afternoon? And how many times ? Daily? Or once a week? What is best? Thank you very much?
I've heard that the soap and method can kill your plant but I'm currently trying it on my mint plant and then rinsing it again with plain water. Hope it helps. I only see a few aphids nothing like described in this video but want to get ahead of this
My pepper plant has weakened and has gotten brown leaves. I just sprayed the neem oil. What can I do to my plant it should start growing healthy again? Or is it too late for it? All the leaves were attacked. It's fresh plants only a month old
I was just out checking on my tomato and pepper plants and one of the tomato plants is just loaded with aphids while the others seem to have none. I didn't panic: I just knew Youtube would have a video about this. Glad I found your video!
I saw one small almost mosquito looking fly in the grow tent, thought it was an aphid colonizer, Should I be worried about an impending infestation?
I had a bad infestation of aphids this growing season. Nothing Organic would kill them! I never did get rid of them, and they destroyed my peppers!
So…no more Organic for me!
Aphids are useful for ants just pluck a part of the stem where the aphid is feeding and give it to a ant colony then they will make honeydew out of aphids and protect em so its better
Praying mantis is also a really good pest control
I only have a flower garden and noticed a bunch of little bugs on my yellow tulip yesterday. You mention veggie gardens but nothing about flowers, should do the same with our flowers?
HOW DID THEY FIND US?!?!
We live in an upstairs city apartment near san Francisco where grass is an endangered habitat!
Hi. I read that tobacco is a natural pesticide so I planted rustic tobacco this year around my garden. Is this a good idea to fight aphids back? Do I need to make it a spray or something like that in order to have practical pesticide use of the tobacco plant? Thanks!!
Cold pressed Neem oil works really well.
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What if ahpids fall for the venus fly trap
I've always been a bit wary ifof using the soapy water trick. Is it safe to use this on herbs like mint that you will want to eat at some point? Also, does the soap harm plants in any way?
Will soapy water impede bees and other pollinators?
Is a small amount of dawn dish soap ok for plants?
Blast them with water hose…aphids we be knocked off onto the ground…and be unlikey return to the plant….so how did they get there in the first place …lol
I've just discovered root aphids. Had no idea about them until today. I've got an infestation of them. Removed all my lettuce. What can I do now?
Easier said than done my friend! They are tough to get rid of.