[LPPT]

I noticed the very top of the vines bent and withering, I thought the wind had snapped the very tip top off of the tallest vines.
I have not been out much with the cold and wind, I just noted it in passing.
I was checking for frost damage when I saw that they covered in them.
I have smothered them in sevin dust to kill the aphids, and I will pull them up and treat the soil with liquid sevin. I will just grow some flowers in there the rest of the season.

[feelip]

I don't know if it works on peas, but I do know that it works on tomatoes. Sprinkle a little bone meal around the plants. What happens in a tomato is if the soil content is high in sodium it causes the arteries in the leaves to clog. These clogs are what an aphid feeds on.

Not that expensive and a lot healthier than zapping everything with Sevin. I haven't used a non-organic insecticide in many years. The strongest thing I use is Neem oil.

I guess the way I see it is I can get chemically treated produce at the grocery store cheaper than I can grow it. I like for my vegetables to be different.

Which reminds me. I have got to get some buckwheat planted. It attracts an insect that eats the bores that kill squash plants. I am pretty sure this works too. It seemed to work last year.

This post has been edited by feelip: 24 April 2012 - 11:47 AM

[LPPT]

feelip, on 24 April 2012 - 11:47 AM, said:

I don't know if it works on peas, but I do know that it works on tomatoes. Sprinkle a little bone meal around the plants. What happens in a tomato is if the soil content is high in sodium it causes the arteries in the leaves to clog. These clogs are what an aphid feeds on.

Not that expensive and a lot healthier than zapping everything with Sevin. I haven't used a non-organic insecticide in many years. The strongest thing I use is Neem oil.

I guess the way I see it is I can get chemically treated produce at the grocery store cheaper than I can grow it. I like for my vegetables to be different.

Which reminds me. I have got to get some buckwheat planted. It attracts an insect that eats the bores that kill squash plants. I am pretty sure this works too. It seemed to work last year.

I will give it a try, I hate using insecticides.
How close will you plant the buckwheat to the squash?

[feelip]

LPPT, on 24 April 2012 - 12:15 PM, said:

I will give it a try, I hate using insecticides.
How close will you plant the buckwheat to the squash?

I planted the the area between the back row and the woods. It was about 8 or 10 feet from the squash.

[Genevieve]

I'm sorry, LPPT. That is sad. I have heard you can order ladybugs, too, which will hang around and eat the aphids.