The arsenal list is rather small if you keep up with it. Like Bower I have a few things
on a small shelf in my winter grow/seed starting room.
All plants coming indoors in the fall get a bath.
Yellow sticky traps let you know right away if a problem has begun.
Neem, soap, hot pepper, DE, gnattrol, mosquito dunks.
Potting up, do not use last years soil if it has ever been outside and wet.
(big box stores often have last years stock outside)
My aphid infestation was 2017. Happened so fast. First thing was a bath in the sink. Just water.
Then all the rest of the recommended methods.
AC vinegar +soap in tin cans.
In late August I start a dozen dwarf sunflowers every few weeks. Aphids love sunflowers,
even the small seedlings. Mice will go after sunflowers above anything else. Now I keep a
couple traps set at all times on a lower shelf. (only trapped 4-5 all winter but one is too
many)
Only thing purchased this year...yellow sticky traps and mouse traps.
I'm getting just a couple trapped gnats a day now so well under control.
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