| 7/21/2013 9:57:46 AM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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This is frustrating. I have a big garden in my back yard that was producing so many veggies I had to give some away to the neighbors. In the last week, I have been infested by APHIDS that have ravaged my zucchini and squash plants. The powder I tried does not work, neither does conventional bug spray. My plants were HUGE, and now 1/2 of them are dead. WHAT CAN I DO?
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| 7/21/2013 9:58:19 AM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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I don't even feel like watering it anymore... 
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| 7/21/2013 12:03:45 PM |
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tileman1814
Kalispell, MT
66, joined Nov. 2007
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Get some chicken wire around your garden and put a few chickend in that should cure your bug problem.
Semper Fi !!!
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| 7/21/2013 3:10:24 PM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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I have chicken wire around the garden... Put up some WHAT??
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| 7/21/2013 7:32:08 PM |
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tileman1814
Kalispell, MT
66, joined Nov. 2007
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I have chicken wire around the garden... Put up some WHAT??
Get a few chickens and turn them loose in your garden.You'll get some eggs and the chickens will eat the bugs--all the bugs.This is an old trick I learned back in the 70's from a article I read in the Mother Earth News.It works.
Semper Fi !!!
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| 7/23/2013 7:43:57 AM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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Make a nontoxic pesticide by mixing 1 c. vegetable oil with 1 tbsp. liquid dish washing soap. Add 1 1/2 tsp. solution per cup of warm water to a handheld spray bottle.
I will tr it... (i'm desperate)
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| 7/24/2013 7:07:26 PM |
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sierratoo
Grande Prairie, AB
62, joined Dec. 2008
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won't the chickens eat the produce?
would diatomaceous earth do the trick?
Best of luck!
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| 7/25/2013 4:34:34 AM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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| 7/27/2013 7:45:07 AM |
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jahunt1990
Spokane, WA
27, joined Jul. 2013
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get ladybugs. They are a natural predator of aphids. They might look nice and cute, but they are really meat eaters.
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| 7/29/2013 12:41:32 PM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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That's what they're doing... piercing and sucking the life out of my plants. 
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| 8/6/2013 9:42:32 AM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
36, joined Jan. 2012
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wtf r APHIDS?
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| 8/8/2013 2:23:01 AM |
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gezora
Victoria, BC
37, joined Apr. 2013
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I had aphids on my water lilies and they were impossible to kill.. even diatomaceous earth wouldn't do it.
Want to know what worked? Cigarette butt tobacco tea. Dump two ash trays into a bucket, add a litre of water and let it percolate over night. Strain it, then put it in a spray bottle and spray your plants down. It should break down their insectoid nervous systems within 30 seconds.
Fish and turtles in my pond didn't mind, and the nicotine was surefire insecticide.
(I post this because I still curse the little green monsters to this day and dearly hope they will all some day be destroyed.)
The other solution is ladybugs. You can get them from a pot grower supply shop, or from outdoors, or a indoor greenhouse or hydroponics shop could point you in the right direction. Ladybugs eat 'em for breakfast.
Just my two cents.
Good luck.
[Edited 8/8/2013 2:24:39 AM ]
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| 8/9/2013 12:01:06 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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spray the plants with cold water to knock them down
then pray the plants with a mixture of dishwashing liquid and water
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| 8/9/2013 1:16:53 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Pesticides are only to be used as a last resort, OP.
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| 8/10/2013 9:13:16 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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aphids hate cold water ---- just spritz them and they will fall off 
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| 8/11/2013 4:39:27 PM |
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summerdreamer
Antioch, CA
66, joined May. 2013
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Mix one teaspoon Ivory dish soap to one gallon water. Put solution in a pump sprayer. I suggest the type that you pump to create pressure, and has a hose attachment, so you can easily spray the underside of the plant leaves as well as the top. You can spray as much as you like without burning the plants. I highly suggest spraying in the morning, avoiding direct sunlight . If you spray in the evenings you can cause mold to grow, then you may say goodbye to your plants.
If you hand water your garden in the morning, once a week "gently" spraying water on the entire plant, you will reduce the infestations in your garden. If you see small clusters of aphids, feel free to wipe them off with your fingers.
The worst pest in your garden is ants. They place aphids and scale on your plants to suck the sugars out. Then it's meal time for the ant.
JH
P.S. The Ivory solution works on spider mites too. Whenever I pass through my garden I carry a small hand held spray bottle, so if I pass by a small infestation, I can immediately address the danger. If you wait one or two days to address a sighting, you waited to long.
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| 8/11/2013 5:34:43 PM |
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bluesplayerca
Modesto, CA
61, joined Aug. 2013
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Hey bro! Mix up some dishwashing liquid in a spray bottle and just spray them every couple days. No harm to the consumption when they are ripe
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| 8/12/2013 11:30:55 AM |
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madhatter1488
Berkeley, CA
67, joined Aug. 2013
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I have had a lot of success with ladybugs. Aphids seem to be their number 1 choice for dinner. I purchased them at a nursery and released them on my rose bushes. follow the instructions for best results.
Hope this helps....
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| 8/12/2013 2:42:10 PM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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I must have waited too long. 
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| 8/13/2013 11:16:50 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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~~OP~~ Plow your garden under.
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| 8/13/2013 12:03:29 PM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
36, joined Jan. 2012
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cup, GO AWAY
i second that motion.
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| 8/16/2013 7:12:52 PM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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All that hard work......gone! (pity party time)
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| 8/17/2013 7:29:36 AM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
36, joined Jan. 2012
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Try garlic. Bugs hate that shit.lol
i make a special recipe for pepper sauce like most people put on collards using habaneros and garlic that works well on alot of pests.
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| 8/29/2013 3:23:48 PM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
36, joined Jan. 2012
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throw some sort of ant poison out. something about ants aphids are attracted to what i just read.
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| 9/1/2013 2:19:13 AM |
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graphyre
Auburn, AL
57, joined Aug. 2013
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The lady bugs are incredible, but which cheap apt./home they go 2?
What me 'VORY?
Yeah i'd go with save the bath tub suds'pray thanks
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| 9/2/2013 2:06:20 AM |
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k_tothe_c
Las Vegas, NV
47, joined Dec. 2008
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 (sleeping garden!)
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| 9/7/2013 7:18:44 PM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
36, joined Jan. 2012
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I just read on it to what I had laying around and started brewing a tea combining lipton, cigars, basil, rosemary, thyme, chives, garlic scapes and leaves and am still waiting to have my mint sprout. will post in a couple days how it works.
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| 9/8/2013 6:33:11 AM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
36, joined Jan. 2012
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^^^^
I don't exactly know, but I think the 1000 mg magnesium I crushed up last night killed them before I got the tea brewed.
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| 9/8/2013 7:08:23 AM |
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tknme2
Modesto, CA
64, joined Dec. 2011
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 I Looked it up in Natural Solutions. 1 Table spoon canola oil, 3 or 4 drops Ivory soap 1 quarter of water into spray bottle spray top to bottom of plants plus underside of leaves. Hope this helps you
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