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  • From: "Shelly Elliott" <shelly AT idlethyme.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Aphids (was Heirlooms/Desperate help)
  • Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 09:22:01 -0600

Another 'sure fire' way to combat aphids in the greenhouse is this: Keep a mustard plant or two in the corner. The aphids flock to the mustard, then it is carried to the goose pen, where the aphids and the mustard are happily eaten. This requires regular planting of mustard but just pop a few seeds in every few weeks. I have never had aphids anywhere but on the mustard utilising this method.
Shelly Elliott
Idle Thyme Farm
Carpenter, WY
www.IdleThymeFarms.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lucy Goodman" <goodows AT infinet.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Aphids (was Heirlooms/Desperate help)


One way I deal with aphids is to hang humming bird feeders around the
garden area. Hummers love aphids and will clean up a crop in a couple of
days. Granted, in NE Ohio you are about a week or two away from the
hummers coming back.

On the soap issue do what Phil sez and use 1TBL soap per quart of water
(and make sure the water is soft water or the soap will curdle and be
useless). The soap will not only wash off the oil off the plants but
should do a number on the aphids as well.

Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
Eaton, OH
http://boulerbelt.blogspot.com


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