Dealing With Aphids: Pest Control Tips & How To Protect Your Plants 

Neem oil has proven to be quite beneficial. Basically, a couple of teaspoons of oil plus 1 teaspoon of washing up liquid dissolved in water will do the trick. It disrupts their breeding cycle and a spray every 6 weeks will sort the problem out. Greenfly is particularly partial, it seems to chillies in our greenhouse.

I was just out checking on my tomato and pepper plants and one of the tomato plants is just loaded with aphids while the others seem to have none. I didn't panic: I just knew RU-vid would have a video about this. Glad I found your video!

I use the water with soap method but I also add some vegetable oil in the spray bottle, I spray the whole plant till it's dripping then let it dry up the bugs then I use the water to spray their dried bodies off. I get the green aphids here in Texas so when they get all brown is when I know they're dead.

When we had lots of rose bushes, we planted garlic in the flower beds. That took care of the aphids on the roses. The dirt smelled like garlic, but that was OK as we don't eat dirt!! LOL

Aphids are known to hatch in early spring (some wintered over eggs) and some are attracted in by the application of high nitrogen fertilizer. I wait as long as I can to apply in later spring. 2) second hatch is near August, after hot spells. When you know when to watch for them, it helps on the daily hunt. Good timing on this video, they are pasky and difficult to elmminate.

Saved my Vinca! Used Dawn diluted and sprayed on them. The curled leaves died, but new growth looks healthy. Love my Vinca!

Great timing with this video! I was just out in the garden pruning back lower leaves on my tomatoes when I saw I had a bit of an aphid infestation. First time I've actually had one, so I came in to see the best natural methods of control and saw this video in my email inbox. I opted for dish soap and water -- with a pinch of cayenne pepper!

Thank you very much for your tips. I am going to check in my greenhouse.

I spray skimmed milk on them, the calsium is supposedly making them immobile and they die. Yes its horrible, but they has to go. Works for me! A lot of great tips in the comments and in your video, thumbs up :-D

Useful tips - I'll have to show this to my mother, so that we can keep her roses, and my berry bushes, safe from these pests.

Good video will try the dish soap and water trick. Good to know that lady bugs and other bugs will help with this chore. 2 years ago I lost a Burning bush to these critters and my remaining one is almost totally destroyed. I wonder if there is still hope for it. When I first noticed them last year I picked off the ends of the shoots where they were but I guess I didn't get them all. Thanks for posting the video!

Gonna keep these in mind.

Neem oil and a drop of dish soap in water. Trust me it does the job year after year .

Brilliant work! Keep it up!

Good work, love your detailing. 👍👍👍

Easier said than done my friend! They are tough to get rid of.

I bought praying mantis egg pods. Hung them in my tomatoes and one day there were hundreds of baby mantis’ all over the place. Lots of them stuck around for several years actually. You can also buy lady bugs.

Gardening is like ultimate natures game with new DLC's every year.

neem oil & dr broners soap works great for aphid control

Great job !

Thanks!

Excellent.

Sweet info love it💥

Thank you for this video :)

Cold pressed Neem oil works really well.

I've heard that the soap and method can kill your plant but I'm currently trying it on my mint plant and then rinsing it again with plain water. Hope it helps. I only see a few aphids nothing like described in this video but want to get ahead of this

Thank you! Great video!!!

Spraying aphids with garlic water sorts them out. Just mix garlic powder with water and spray.

aphids managed to cover my mint plant... yep, that's right - the mint didn't attract anything to feast on the aphids. I've cut away all the mint apart from the roots and then covered it over in soil. Fingers crossed the mint will resurrect itself from the roots.

I had horrible aphids on spinach plants to the point where I couldn't keep up with them and just tore them out, broke my heart. Then they went on my bell peppers and I actually watched a video about using the soapy water with a couple drops of peppermint essential oil mixed in, and I had squash bugs on my cucumber plants everyday, and I used that mixture and I use it on all my plants. Tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, lettuce you name it and don't seem to have a problem anymore. I've never seen another squash bug, not once from the day I started using it so that's my go-to for now.

How do I kill aphids whilst protecting the hoverflies which are covering our plum tree, we also have a problem with lots of blue bottle type flies in the area of the tree? I have washed the tree, cur dead wood out and cleaned the area underneath with Jeyes fluid but nothing seems to help.

Spray plant with very diluted Listerine mouthwash ... to get rid of Mealybug and some aphids ... and any fungal infestations.

I lost all my plum tree leaves to these pest.i did spray soapy water but not soon enough. I haven't been vigilant enough. the leaves usually come back. I'll be ready.

Washing up liquid for me👍

I grow tansy in differant corners of my garden,when going in blossom the Lady bugs lay all there egg larva on tansy they love it then all the increased population of ladybugs,eat the aphids almost destroy 99%of my aphids for years now I have had the tansy in the gaden and it is a perennial so lady bugs increase every year taking care of most of you aphid and other problems!Oh and bty the way I use to have Squah bug problem and they hate tansy aswell I now have almost 99% free squash bug problem that use to destrot and harm my plants!Also Ants farm apids like humans farm cows and bring the aphids to you plants so ants can suck juice off the aphid!But since ants hate Tansy aswell they mostly stay away from my garden which is excellent cause ants farm and herd and raise apids!Hope this helped! From northeast Connecticut! Hope this helps!Just one warning if you want a pesticide free garden tansy is great but you just need to weed some of it out periodically but Id rather do that then poison my garden or spray the apids of with to much water that could increase the chance of blight which is terrible all over New England states!P.S.Give your tansy atleast ONE to mature to a good size then the ladybugs come back to it every year!Also at the end of the garden season just take some hedge trimmers or clippers and cut the tanzy almost to grond level it comes back every year perennial!Cover root zone with shredded leavs or straw after you cut it to protect the root zone in its early state of life developing!HOPE this HELPED!Please be patient and give it a try for a few years you will totally be surprisingly please on the results on how it attracts ladybug that kill aphis and the great reward is I went from thousands of squash bug to only mybe 50 to a hundred I just hand picked and a prefect season with no squash bugSPLEASE PATIENCE IT WORKS GOOD THE FIRST YEAR BUT FANTASTIC ALL FOLLOWING YEAR!yOU CAN START SEED IN THE HOUSE ABOUT 3 MONTHES AHEAD OF TIME SO IT GETS A GOOD START!THEY ARE TINY SEEDS SO PLANT THEM SHALLOW AND IN HOUSE STARTING POTS! iM NOT SURE BUT i THINK THEY NEED LIGHT TO GERMINATE!wHAT THE HECK GIVE IT A TRY! God Bless and Happy Gardening

How about Spider Mites. Do you have a video on how to get rid of those?

Heard to much nitrogen fertilizer produces the green growth that they feed on. Also read 50/50 rubbing alcohol , and water kills them on contact.

I had a bad infestation of aphids this growing season. Nothing Organic would kill them! I never did get rid of them, and they destroyed my peppers!

I mix local honey with some water and spray my plants down with it. This attracts ladybugs as well as ants. Ant also feed on aphids (specifically eggs) for their juice. Most people don't like ants tho so this may not be ideal for many. Ants are the main pollinator of my garden since we have very few bees around, so I figure if they're here anyway I may as well encourage them to tend to some plants for me lol

How do I control cherry blackfly on my Stella cherry tree? The tree is about 10 feet tall and nearly all the branch tips have curled leaves. I've already jetted the leaves once but the aphids have returned. Would a garlic spray work as it does on roses?

I've always been a bit wary ifof using the soapy water trick. Is it safe to use this on herbs like mint that you will want to eat at some point? Also, does the soap harm plants in any way?

Hi. I read that tobacco is a natural pesticide so I planted rustic tobacco this year around my garden. Is this a good idea to fight aphids back? Do I need to make it a spray or something like that in order to have practical pesticide use of the tobacco plant? Thanks!!

I ignored my aphid problem and after a week or two the spiders moved in and took care of it for me

My pepper plant has weakened and has gotten brown leaves. I just sprayed the neem oil. What can I do to my plant it should start growing healthy again? Or is it too late for it? All the leaves were attacked. It's fresh plants only a month old

I only have a flower garden and noticed a bunch of little bugs on my yellow tulip yesterday. You mention veggie gardens but nothing about flowers, should do the same with our flowers?

Im struggling with these green nasties attacking my blackcurrant and spraying with soapy water isnt working as well as it needs to. Also when do blackcurrant start to fruit?

Praying mantis is also a really good pest control

Hi, we enjoy your videos which are very well produced and informative. I am using an aeroponic system which is in a totally enclosed area. A couple of days ago I noticed some blotches on the leaves and this morning upon further investigation found several aphids under the leaves of the small plants. I removed what I saw and sprayed all the, currently, small plants with soapy water. However, I wonder if you would be so kind as to confirm that the plants will probably recover once the aphids are no longer present, of course I will spray for a few days until I am sure that all is well. Kind regards, Geoffrey in the Czech Republic

I saw one small almost mosquito looking fly in the grow tent, thought it was an aphid colonizer, Should I be worried about an impending infestation?

Mini flamethrower.

Is a small amount of dawn dish soap ok for plants?

When is the proper time to spray? Morning ? Or afternoon? And how many times ? Daily? Or once a week? What is best? Thank you very much?

I have been growing chillies this year and the Aphids have took over. I’ve tried everything but they are still getting worse. It’s as though I’m breeding them not trying to kill them...

I am about to try a homemade aphid killer on my dwarf Gala Apple tree at my allotment that is covered again in aphid. It is a mix I use on my citrus trees to rid them of Spider mite. Take a small spray bottle like a well washed out windowleen spray bottle. HERE IS MY MIX (1) Add 6 Tea Spoons of Malt Vinegar. (2) Add 1 Tea Spoon of Bicarb soda (or Baking soda). (3) Add 2 Tea Spoons of Pure Extra Virgin Olive Oil. (4) Add 4 Tea Spoons of Organic Washing up Liquid. (5) fill with hot Water from tap wait to settle and keep adding more hot water until the spray bottle is compleatly full of liquid minus any bubbles. (6) Place sprayer lid back on and give a good shake for 2 mins to mix all ingredients. Go to Apple tree and pull of any leaves that are curled. Shake mix againe for 2 mins and spray over the whole dwarf apple tree, including undersides of leaves cover the whole tree. After an hour of drying finish of with a Good spraying of a good quality NEEM OIL. I will let you know how it goes, This is something I have come up with myself and need to try out but something that is 100% organic. Many thanks from Nathan of Allotment 5W from Leicester UK

I heard spraying sage works is that true ? Or just growing it ?

Epson salt?? milk spray??

Does anybody know is soap water or neem oil will harm the chance of pollinators using plants?

I've just discovered root aphids. Had no idea about them until today. I've got an infestation of them. Removed all my lettuce. What can I do now?

HOW DID THEY FIND US?!?! We live in an upstairs city apartment near san Francisco where grass is an endangered habitat!

dust the plant with flour, makes them unable to deficate and they die

small question: I have beetroots plants that go to seeds, when do I need to collect the seeds, please. thank you for an answer.

diatomaceous earth sprinkle heavily on underside of leaf- no chemicals or damaging plants.

I´m a farmer in South America, may I participate in the big bug hunt?

as It's been cold and raining here I have not used the soap and water. I have squished them. I know I didn't get them all so since the rain has stopped but It's still cold I have placed strips of banana peel on the branches of my tomatoes and have placed a ring of peels around the base of my plants. I Don't know if this will work. I read it does so I'm trying it out.

Will soapy water impede bees and other pollinators?

Would the soapy water be bad for ladybugs?

i read somewhere that aphids don't like bananas. i had nothing to lose and gave it a shot. put banana peels around the plants. without much hope for it to work i may add. but i was surprised, by the next morning the aphids were gone! apparently there's something like banana water, where a peel or two soakes in a glass of water for 2 days, that one can spray on the plants. didn't try that myself. since i put banana peels out i haven't seen aphids anymore.

There are awful little white things on my dahlias. Guess that is what they are. I will try the soapy water.

What if ahpids fall for the venus fly trap

Praying Mantis also eat them!

Garlic+Chilli+warm water does not work. Failed, more bugs the following morning.

Axe

Blast them with water hose...aphids we be knocked off onto the ground...and be unlikey return to the plant....so how did they get there in the first place ...lol

oh no..i killed the larvae thinking they were bad @_@ they looked nasty...now I Know!

Jah rasta blood claat ne man, best ting for aphids is to beat their black ass blue. Dat teach dem a lesson terass

So...no more Organic for me!

Aphids are useful for ants just pluck a part of the stem where the aphid is feeding and give it to a ant colony then they will make honeydew out of aphids and protect em so its better

why do ants come when you have ants ,, they don't seem to be eating the ants??

I've killed some of them because i find red blood interesting in this insects.

Didn't find this helpful. Squash them all? Stupid, unless you've got a week to spare and super human dedication. Spray with washing up liquid solution? I've been doing this daily for ten days to my plum tree, and it is barely holding them back. Plant pretty flowers around my plum tree? Yeah, sure that'll scare them away. Need to look for something better.

First you talk about Aphids than video starts and your narration talk about aphids. Minute 150 finally we get the first tip. 2017 year it is. people have less attention span.