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Aphids and soapy spray
On May 12, 10:22*am, David in Normandy
wrote: Yesterday for the first time I tried spraying a big lupin with warm water and washing up liquid. The plant was absolutely heaving with thousands of aphids and starting to look quite poorly and wilting. Today 99% of the aphids are black, shrivelled and dead. I'm really impressed how quick and effective it has been. I sprayed the plant in the full heat and blaze of yesterday afternoons sun which probably helped kill off the little buggers. I'll spray again this afternoon which also looks like being a scorcher to see if it will kill off the remainder. I used about twice the amount of washing up liquid as I'd use in a washing up bowl for washing dishes but this amount was only in one of those little plant sprayers. The concentration seems to have been good. I'm very impressed with this "non-toxic" approach. :-) Ditto, and I am taking good note, having planted some broadbeans which always seem to attract large amounts of black aphids. I am just wondering just how non-toxic washing up liquid truly is, and would using something like Ecover's stuff be better than, say, Fairy Liquid? Cat(h) |
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