Being a keen gardener - composting, hand weeding, mulching and generally being vigilant around my flowers, fruit and vegetables goes a long way to keeping them in the best of health. If you are looking for more information about this product, please visit our garden centre in Thirsk where our friendly and knowledgeable staff is ready to help you.

The life cycles of each aphid species differ in general for much of the year, aphid colonies consist of wingless females that give birth to live young.Making sure your garden is a rich and welcoming environment for all types of insect means that the habitat can be controlled naturally. The havoc-wreaking greenfly can be prevented in a number of ways including to remember not to overfeed plants with too much nitrogen fertiliser so that your plants can become a little more hardy between new growth, minimising the growth minimises numbers of aphids. Also, most are based on “organic” or “naturally-occurring” materials and have very little persistence once sprayed on to the plant.

This also kills the eggs and the larvae so don’t forget the undersides of the leaves and in the leaf axils. As they feed, aphids excrete a sugary, sticky substance, known as honeydew, which drops on to the leaves below where they’re feeding. Many aphids, especially those on fruits and vegetables, go through an annual cycle that involves two or more host plants. I left mine only six days because I was impatient though my next lot brewing now will infuse for two weeks. Once you have sprayed this product over your plants or any other edible item, its effectiveness will last for four weeks or more.To deter moths it can be sprayed directly onto any form of clothing including cashmere, silk and cotton.

Some natural enemies of aphids can be purchased as biological control for use in greenhouses, including hoverfly larvae, lacewing larvae and several parasitoid wasps.

There are hundreds of species of aphids but the main ones that trouble us are the green and black species. Greenflies, also known as aphids, most often affect roses in your garden but can affect any plant by stealing sap from the shoot of a plant, causing the leaves to become wrinkled and damaging any flowers or fruit in the process. As virus infections can’t be cured, the only way to protect plants is to prevent them getting infected.