ATTACK OF THE APHIDS!!!!!

[DramaBrahmaMama]

Went out to harvest some lettuce last night and realized that my cabbage and late radishes (I grow for chickens) are completely covered in aphids. Has anyone heard of or actually used the flour method to combat these little terrorists??? I won't use chemicals, so I need an organic trick!!!!

 

[nuthatched]

Buy some Lady bugs?

 

[Bread]

Went out to harvest some lettuce last night and realized that my cabbage and late radishes (I grow for chickens) are completely covered in aphids. Has anyone heard of or actually used the flour method to combat these little terrorists??? I won't use chemicals, so I need an organic trick!!!!

Hose them off with a strong stream of water. It’ll take 2 or 3 times, but they’re lazy enough they’ll give up, hopefully before you do.

 

[SilverBirds]

You can buy a bag of ladybugs to release in your garden.

 

[DramaBrahmaMama]

So, I'm going to give Neme oil another try... I did not have any luck with it when were in TX. I did dust the plants with flour, and then about 12 hrs later we had a pretty heavy rain. I went out to check everything this morning and all the plants are clear!!!!!

 

[Dpenny]

We ran into a similar problem a few years back. We ended up reusing some greenhouse plastic and wood we had lying around to make some short greenhouse covers similar to the image below. We got the grow plastic here if you are interested. https://jigglygreenhouse.com/store/

 

[BarneyNCyndi]

Just a note on the ladybugs, we had an aphid invasion last year and bought ladybugs, released them by the affected plants and our chickens came running up and thanked us for the tasty snack we put out there for them.

 

[bhaugh]

Just a note on the ladybugs, we had an aphid invasion last year and bought ladybugs, released them by the affected plants and our chickens came running up and thanked us for the tasty snack we put out there for them.

I bet they had pretty poop