permaculture

[nepal <nepal.roade@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:23:19 -0800
paul wheaton <paul@richsoil.com> wrote:

> At the permies.com forums, somebody presented a question that has
> several of us stumped
> 
> http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/2408_0
> 
> A houseplant with aphids.
> 
> Outdoors, we can talk about guild plantings and ladybug larva.  A soap
> spray may be of help - but that still seems a bit like simply
> replacing a chemical pesticide with a less toxic chemical pesticide.
> 
> I'm hoping that there is some awesome permaculture path that I have
> overlooked.
> 
> Anybody have any permaculture suggestions?

Yes,

feed your plant properly, i.e. provide a proper balanced mineral diet
for it. If it was truly healthy, insects would not touch it. That is
what insects do, they come to clean up the dead or dying organic
material. 

nepal.