Hi there welcome to HuwsNursery and here is
another video in the pests and disease series,
and we have like most years a bit of a problem
with aphids so I'm going to show you a really
easy way just to make a spray - insecticide
or something, that you spray onto your plants
and it kills off the aphids which is good.
Now there are many ways of getting rid of
aphids and i will show you another way just
using tomato leaves but i'll hopefully do
that a bit later on. so you just want about
500ml of water which is half a litre, just
under a pint, I don't know how many quarts
it is, but I will tell you down below. Now
you want per 500ml of water you want to add
about a tablespoon of soap. Now the soap you
use is important, I use Ecover which is an
organic soap and it doesn't have any chemicals
in. now if you use like a detergent it that
has chemicals in and you don't want that to
be added into your organic garden. So just
mix that in, like that, and then the reason
why you put in the soap after not before is
because you get loads and loads of bubbles.
Now just simply fill this up. Yeah, there's
the bubbles. So, now lets apply this to the
plants. so luckily we haven't had too many
aphids today or this growing season at all
but this is a tomato plant and aphids love
it. Now aphids they're about 1 tenth of an
inch long fully grown and ants like to milk
them for their sort of milk that they make
and use them as a food, so, and aphids like
to eat the pollen, well sap. so when you're
just going to spray your plant if you have
a pump spray it's going to be much easier
but you want to just go round, like this,
spraying all the top of the leaves and don't
forget the stem because remember the stem
is the main motorway for these pests. so after
you've done that you then want to go underneath
and spray all the underneath of the plant,
like that, and that will make sure that you
get both ends of the plant so aphids are not
going to get away with eating your plants
that quickly. Another thing you can do is
to get a really strong hose of water and spray
it on. Now I do have quite a big problem with
that because it wastes water and I just think
that if you use lots of water, waste enough
to spray aphids, it's a waste of time. Now
if you do use that it will make all the aphids
fall to the floor and what I would do is paint
on a bit of honey at the stem to stop aphids
climbing back up. And yeah so that is a really
simple and easy way how to make a spray for
aphids and other things don't like it like
blackfly and whitefly for example. So I hoped
you enjoyed that quick video and I will see
you again very soon with another one.
