Hi there welcome to HuwsNursery and here is another video in the pests and disease series,
and we have like most years a bit of a problem with aphids so I'm going to show you a really
easy way just to make a spray - insecticide or something, that you spray onto your plants
and it kills off the aphids which is good.
Now there are many ways of getting rid of aphids and i will show you another way just
using tomato leaves but i'll hopefully do that a bit later on.
so you just want about 500ml of water which is half a litre, just under a pint, I don't
know how many quarts it is, but I will tell you down below.
Now you want per 500ml of water you want to add about a tablespoon of soap.
Now the soap you use is important, I use Ecover which is an organic soap and it doesn't have
any chemicals in.
now if you use like a detergent it that has chemicals in and you don't want that to be
added into your organic garden.
So just mix that in, like that, and then the reason why you put in the soap after not before
is because you get loads and loads of bubbles.
Now just simply fill this up.
Yeah, there's the bubbles.
So, now lets apply this to the plants.
so luckily we haven't had too many aphids today or this growing season at all but this
is a tomato plant and aphids love it.
Now aphids they're about 1 tenth of an inch long fully grown and ants like to milk them
for their sort of milk that they make and use them as a food, so, and aphids like to
eat the pollen, well sap.
so when you're just going to spray your plant if you have a pump spray it's going to be
much easier but you want to just go round, like this, spraying all the top of the leaves
and don't forget the stem because remember the stem is the main motorway for these pests.
so after you've done that you then want to go underneath and spray all the underneath
of the plant, like that, and that will make sure that you get both ends of the plant so
aphids are not going to get away with eating your plants that quickly.
Another thing you can do is to get a really strong hose of water and spray it on.
Now I do have quite a big problem with that because it wastes water and I just think that
if you use lots of water, waste enough to spray aphids, it's a waste of time.
Now if you do use that it will make all the aphids fall to the floor and what I would
do is paint on a bit of honey at the stem to stop aphids climbing back up.
And yeah so that is a really simple and easy way how to make a spray for aphids and other
things don't like it like blackfly and whitefly for example.
So I hoped you enjoyed that quick video and I will see you again very soon with another
one.