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Aphids in garden

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  • 01-06-2020 11:56pm
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    Naos
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    Is anyone seeing an increase in Aphids in their garden this year?

    Most of our plants have them, we've just sprayed all of our plants with a mixture of water, vegetable oil & soap so hopefully that helps.


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    FlipperThePriest
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    Yes. One of our lupins was absolutely destroyed, it had stopped producing flowers. Tried the soap, tried spraying, tried removing them, no good. So I cut it right back, divided it and replanted in a few locations. Not only did they follow the newly divided plants, they then started finding my other lupin plants nearby. So I sprayed them with fly / wasp killer. Not ideal, but it was instantly successful.


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    SnowyMuckish
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    In the past I bought ladybirds from the Mr Middleton gardening website. They weren’t long mopping up the problem. I don’t know if they’re still available in the current lockdown.


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    Tree
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    I'm finding greenfly places there arent' even plants this year. 100% not impressed


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    iamtony
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    Growing a patch of nettles somewhere can help prevent aphids destroying plants as they love nettles.
    I actually had aphids on my luttuce hydroponic setup in the house. Ive no idea how they got their.


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    iamtony
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    One thing ive noticed i have loads of around this year is ants.


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    Treppen
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    iamtony wrote: »
    One thing ive noticed i have loads of around this year is ants.

    Ants farm the aphids for milk.


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    Reckless Abandonment
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    Funny I did notice a good few a month or so back. But not recently. I have a new wildlife pond built this year and have noticed alot of hoverflys maybe they are sorting them out for me


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    iamtony
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    Reckless Abandonment wrote: »
    Funny I did notice a good few a month or so back. But not recently. I have a new wildlife pond built this year and have noticed alot of hoverflys maybe they are sorting them out for me
    Yep. Lots of hover flys for me aswell.


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    tom1ie
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    Naos wrote: »
    Is anyone seeing an increase in Aphids in their garden this year?

    Most of our plants have them, we've just sprayed all of our plants with a mixture of water, vegetable oil & soap so hopefully that helps.

    All over the rose bush and Lupins. Massive increase.
    Must be the heat.


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    endacl
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    SnowyMuckish wrote: »
    In the past I bought ladybirds from the Mr Middleton gardening website. They weren’t long mopping up the problem. I don’t know if they’re still available in the current lockdown.

    None this year. They import from France and the delays mean that they’d all be dead by the time they get here.


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