can you scout for ladybugs? snag a few from the garden if you can find them and set them on your plants where the aphids are. I have a bhut jolokia in the greenhouse that lost all its leaves when it got too cold this winter in there. It has had no leaves for 6 weeks. nothing but buds sitting patiently waiting on longer day length? to get started again. as the leaves just started erupting I saw aphids snuggled deep within the tiny new leaf sets. sheesh! already. I couldn't find an aphid anywhere else in the greenhouse! I keep yellow sticky cards out there, too. I have a few resident ladybugs in there ( I snag them from in my house and deposit them out there) I gently placed a ladybug or two on the plant to devour the aphids. within a day the plant was clean.
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carolyn k
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