My Favorite (Natural) Ways to Control Aphids in My Vegetable Garden!

Tiny and fierce marauders, aphids completely destroyed my okra plants my first year of gardening. Blasting them with water helps a little, ladybugs can help a lot if you can convince the little darlings to stick around. But there are two other methods I have found very successful. See the photos below for more information. For even more ideas, visit my blog post, "5 Ways to Say, 'Get Lost, Aphids!'" What are your natural aphid control ideas? Share them in the comments! I'd love to have even more methods in my arsenal! ;-)
This is my go-to method. Simply chop banana peel and place them just under the soil line around the stem of the plant. This has cut down significantly on the number of aphids on my plants. Plus, it adds some nutrients to the soil.
Aphids like to hang out on the underside of leaves. Placing foil around the base of your plants will reflect light onto the aphids, which they don't like. Just be careful. Too much light reflected upwards might scorch the plant leaves.
Becky - Clover and Thyme
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  • Loretta Loretta on Jun 03, 2019

    Suggestions for aphids on indoor plants??

  • Mimi Mimi on Apr 26, 2020

    Does anyone have a remedy for weevils brought into the pantry in pasta, flour or grains?

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  • VA. VA. on Apr 19, 2020

    Thank You, I will try this project. You are CLEVER.

  • Penny Penny on Jul 19, 2023

    Take a small container (old med bottle, lid, small bowl, etc- doesn't take a lot) and put whole cloves or just take the lid off your cloves. They hate it, I tried everything when I brought them home in a bag a rice once, and this was the only thing that worked! As for putting it in the freezer, yeah, that will kill them, but then are you going to "yuk

    put them in your food without knowing? Gross We discovered the little suckers when we had guest over, my friend offered to fry my rice while I did something else and she said Hey, your rice is moving! We didn't see them in the bag, they looked just like the rice! Needless to say, we decided we didn't even want a rice dish that day. We had just bought the bag of rice the day before! Those were the hardest things to get rid of too! They are so little they can go everywhere

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