I first noticed Aphids on my Mini Mumma Capsicum plant about 1 month after planting when inspecting some curled new leaves. I purchased it as a seedling and no doubt introduced the bastards to just about everything else thanks to the nursery....
Initially I was just squishing them by hand but their incredibly fast reproduction got the better of me and before I knew it they were in plague proportion on everything except for the snow peas and tomatoes.
They didn't seem to effect the capsicum, chilli, parsley and coriander much but they were a big problem with the eggplant (especially thick on the flowers possible resulting in very low pollination?) and the Pak Choi.
I had a bad attempt at brewing up my own concoction of bug death using garlic, chilli and brown vinegar loosely based on Are they the lemmings?'s brew, but the aphids loved it!
I finally got sick of seeing flowers fall off my eggplant and losing lots of pak choi leaves to curled oblivion and went and got some real shit.
Bye bye aphids! But for how long....
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