I'm about ready to scream. I had a major aphid infestation on my rose that I thought I'd finally won. They're back and there's new aphids on my borage...
Water hose blast did not work.
Home-made garlic oil didn't work. I even tried rubbing cut garlic cloves over infested twigs. No effect.
Dawn detergent didn't work either.
I even tried squashing them on sight.
Lady bugs and lacewings aren't a good solution since this is isolated to one or two plants and I have an apartment balcony patio not a yard.
Then I bought fertilome triple action plus (neem + pyrethrin). It helped after repeated use- but just when I thought id won the battle I find a twig coated in 20 sphids out of the blue!!!
I'm really getting ticked off. Not long ago I picked off a cutter worm from my borage, in addition to new aphids there are leaf miners too. It seems my patio is becoming a pest magnet.
I'm really thinkining about getting a heavy duty insecticide to protect what few plants I have. I don't want to take any chances when one infested plant can bring down every plant I own on my teeny bit o greenspace.
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