The best cure for pests on garden plants is prevention, and that's not hard with regular search-and-destroy missions.
drove down air quality across swaths of the Eastern U.S. this week, a problem all too familiar in many Western states.
Had the invasion been severe or the water-and-rubbing method ineffective, I would have applied a spray of Neem, which kills aphids by smothering. The organic oil, derived from the seeds of the Neem tree, is safe to use on edibles and is nontoxic to people, pets and birds. Still, it should be applied after dusk when beneficial insects are less active.
Because I didn’t notice the small poop-coated, ravenous larvae earlier in the season, they completely destroyed some of my plants, which stood stripped, brown and shriveled at the back of the bed. To prevent more carnage, I had to remove the adults that populated the remainder of my lilies, so I tapped them off the stems into a bucket of soap- and vinegar-laced water.
Catch it early, and you can save your crop by drenching the entire plant with a calcium spray, which almost immediately corrects the deficiency. Most of the time, new fruit produced after treatment is healthy. If it isn’t, a second dose should do the trick.
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