| Greenfly problem resolution
Hi, just recently I have have been having a massive greenfly problem with a Peace rose in my garden. No insects seemed to be coming near them to scoff them up and they were doing an unseemly amount of damage to the buds of the rose.
I was unhappy.
Somewhere, in the distant past, I heard that the 'organic' way of solving aphid problems was to give them a squirt with a very mild solution of washing up liquid. Which I promptly did. They thrived off it. Rose getting sicker...
In a flash of inspiration I decided to pop a wee drop of vinegar into the spray and give them a blast of that, my logic telling me that they wouldn't like the stinky vinegar and they would go away to another plant that wouldn't find them a problem.
I was astonished by the result. In two days all the aphids were dead and scorched. Not just the 'sucker' ones, but the wingy ones too.
Doesn't seem to have any impact on the rose, apart - obviously - from a mild transitory pong of smart price vinegar.
Actually, if there was a rose that smelled like a fish and chip shop I would probably plant it.
Anyone else try something like this?  |