Despite my declarations to the contrary, I did put in a small garden this year on the sunny side of the house. This bed was terribly overgrown and needed to be cleared (because it contained poison ivy) and that created an opportunity for food bearing plants to go in. So, in they went: two kinds of tomatoes, baby watermelon, cukes, eggplant and broccoli. Things have been going along swimmingly but then today when I went to take a peek at them, the tomato plants were covered in aphids.
I'm pretty sure they weren't there yesterday or at least the day before, so I have caught it early, but they were everywhere on one plant and present on the other. With instructions from the internet, I made up a soapy, oily goo to spray on them. I will admit, my first thought was "see, this is why I don't garden!" We shall see...
4 comments:
Keep 'em on your side of town, will ya?
D
By the way, Lady Bugs are good too.
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How did the "goo" do?
Shan
The goo was hard on the plants... they look mighty stressed. The bugs are gone, but the jury is still out on whether it was worth it. :(
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