oh no, aphids!
I found 1 aphid on my lettuce today when I was harvesting its leaves. Oh no! If there is one bug I hate, it’s aphids. Must figure out how to kill it organically and hope it doesn’t multiply!
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Smurfett's Lettuce progress journal
This entry is about Smurfett's Lettuce that
is currently in the Smurfie's Square Foot garden.
Albany, CA, United States
Buzz buzz buzz!
Listen in on the Grapevine
Cmagnus wrote:
You can spray them off with a strong jet of water. You can add a squirt of dish soap to a spray bottle of water and spray them. It might be hard with lettuce, but on plants with accessible leaves and fewer cracks, you can even just brush them off. I read somewhere that they’re supposed to move really slow so they have trouble getting back onto the plant if they get brushed too far away. Wherever I read that didn’t explain how they got there in the first place if they’re so slow. In any case, I had some aphids on my beans a while back and methodically brushed them all off and I haven’t seen any since, so it must work.
Posted on 29 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)