Yikes! Are those bad bugs in my garden?
Garden Week Eighteen 8/7/2018 ## Yikes! Are those bad bugs in my garden? Every day I walk through the garden. Daily inspections help to identify pests before they become a problem. Thursday, I found a gathering of aphids on several of my tomato plants. I watched them spread to several other plants...
Garden Week Eighteen 8/7/2018
Yikes! Are those bad bugs in my garden?
Every day I walk through the garden. Daily inspections help to identify pests before they become a problem. Thursday, I found a gathering of aphids on several of my tomato plants. I watched them spread to several other plants over the weekend, now action is required! But what should I do?
As a mother, I have done my best to feed my children organic, non-GMO foods, where possible. In the garden, this is definitely something I can make happen. To that end, I use insecticidal soaps and old-school other tricks rather than chemical pest controls. One such method is insecticidal soap. But what is it? How does it work? When should it be used? What does it work on?
According to Marriam-Webster’s dictionary:
Soap: noun \ ˈsōp \
a: a cleansing and emulsifying agent made usually by...
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