On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:26:09 +0100, J R HARTLEY wrote:

Hi,
I'm quite new to edible gardening and this year I have grown from seed
some Californian Wonder Pepper plants and a Scotch Bonnet plant. I
noticed recently though, that they have a lot of black flies on them and
some of the leaves have curled up slightly, so I bought some insecticide
spray - "Westland Bug Attack Defence" - the only thing is that rather
foolishly I sprayed the plants and THEN read the instructions only to
find a line of text which says (not to be used on edible plants) - D'oh!
Now I know that some plants are probably more affected such as lettuce
(?) but how critical do you think this may be for pepper plants which
are only just at the flowering stage?

If you want to eat produce grown with poison, you can buy it at the local
mega-store. Your home garden should be poison free.