I hope I'm in the right place,cause my rose bush from last year now has MANY buds. My problem is Aphids. They almost killed the bush last year and I'm seeing it start again. I tried liquid dish soap with no help If I can control or rid the bush from aphids I will have a beautiful bush. sleep warm ed
Philip Nulty gave me a recipe last summer that worked AWESOME!! I will try to find it for you! 1 Tablespoon of Veg Oil. 1 Tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar. 1 Tablespoon of Liquid Soap. 1 and a half Tablespoons of Baking Soda. 1 (Teaspoon) of Clear Listerine. Mix the contents in 1 Gallon of water. Note do not spray on a sunny day.
Oh thank you so very much... I use many many gallons of stuff. I may go ahead and make up some of this for this year. I always would rather use things like this rather than horrible poisons.
Ugh I'm guilty I use the poisons.. only on my ornamentals..... I use the stuff the rose club here uses... its by Ortho called Rose Pride... I'm just sharing if your organic by all means stay that way.... I just gave in... I never could get my ornamentals to stay alive in this florida weather, I over plant my veggies just so I can have some.... haha. Good luck
WOW Wow friends,I never to get so many answers to my question. I will use something,maybe the mixture. Next is my baby mice that are outside (cause I feed the birds)but there was 2 adult and 8 babies ALL looking for seed. I think I screwed up Bed time here and all plants including the tomatoes are doing great sleep warm ed
Deanna... does Philips "recipe" work on other varmints... like grasshoppers? I've been battling a whole bunch of small black with orange strip grasshoppers. I tried some of the liquid Sevin dust... they just acted like it was a nice spring shower.
Hi Edlou8181,..as Deanna commented that mix does work and most of the ingredients will be in the house,..even if you just use the Liquid Soap it will help but do use something quickly. ======================================================= Hi Deanna,..nice one,..glad you remembered to keep that mix for the future. ======================================================= Hi Cheryl,..aha Grasshoppers the Neem Oil will work on them slowly,..but surely ,..i started a topic on how to get rid of bugs and the article about Neem Oil mentions Grasshoppers.
