Sunflower sacrificial plant?

KCMO_Don · July 31, 2008

Amongst my 60 tomato plants I have a rogue sunflower with HUGE leaves about 6 feet tall.
This sunflower looks like HELL, with yellowing leaved and so many aphids the plant actually sags under the weight.
This plant is actually IN the tomato plants as in ... touching them, yet my maters do not have a single aphid, worm or flea beetle. We are 100% organic.
along with the aphids there are lady bugs and their larva in numbers too great to count.
Are sunflowers usually used for this or is this just a fluke?
I will try and get picts in a few days.

July 31, 2008	#1
KCMO_Don Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KANSAS Posts: 223	Sunflower sacrificial plant? Amongst my 60 tomato plants I have a rogue sunflower with HUGE leaves about 6 feet tall. This sunflower looks like HELL, with yellowing leaved and so many aphids the plant actually sags under the weight. This plant is actually IN the tomato plants as in ... touching them, yet my maters do not have a single aphid, worm or flea beetle. We are 100% organic. along with the aphids there are lady bugs and their larva in numbers too great to count. Are sunflowers usually used for this or is this just a fluke? I will try and get picts in a few days. __________________ GIGGITY - GIGGITY