Re: Aphids

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Frank Teuton wrote:

Unnatural but relatively harmless controls include hosing off the plants with a strong spray of water,

I find that does more to get me wet than get rid of aphids.

or using a soapy spray (test on a small bit of plant first), or using one of the milder botanicals....

This must be sprayed right onto the aphid to kill it and takes time to eat out the aphid's stomach, I believe.  With time it does work. Aphids (usually black) often appear on fava beans when they are stressed by hot weather.....sometimes a cooling watering strategy can help, as can foliar application of seaweed spray, which seems to help stressed plants

If you pick off the new growth at the top, which doesn't develope into much anyway, at the first sign of a black aphid, you should 'nip it in the bud' as it were.....the aphids only go after new growth and turn up later on in the growing season.

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