Fight aphids with a home remedy

If you want to control plant-based aphids, the nettle is a very good home remedy. You can collect them almost anywhere from May to September, or you can go to the pharmacy or drugstore and buy nettle tea.

Nettle stock against aphids

• The brew, with which you can fight your aphids, is first prepared like a strong one Nettle tea too: You boil water and pour it over as many fresh or dried ones as possible Nettle leaves.
• Cover the jar and let your home remedy steep for at least 24 hours. The result is a strong nettle brew, which is of course cold the next day.
• Now fill the nettle stock in an atomizer and spray the aphids with it. Let the plant dry and repeat the application a few times over the next few days.
• Unlike nicotine broth or plant poison, you don't have to be careful with this herbal home remedy that it falls into the potting soil. Nettle stock will not harm your plant.
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• This should be effective in controlling the aphids. However, keep your plant under observation for a while, even after you have killed all of the aphids. Sometimes some hatch from hidden eggs again.
• If you have an ongoing problem with aphids that this home remedy cannot effectively control, consider whether your plant is generally not doing well. Are you getting enough water and light? Maybe a change of location will do you good.

Various home remedies can help against aphids in the garden

Aphids sting leaves, stems and especially fresh shoot tips of plants and suck out plant sap. Not only is this a visual problem, but the plant can die.

• Probably the most harmless home remedy for aphids in the garden is nasturtium. These plants are very heavily attacked by aphids and can be grown as "attractant plants" and later planted around useful plants.
• Especially when young shoots of plants show a strong aphid infestation, it can help to remove the shoots with the aphids. Since aphids can also transmit viral diseases to plants, the waste should not be disposed of on the compost heap but in the organic waste bin.
• If you notice an aphid infestation very early on, you can try getting the plant completely wet and then dusting it with wood ash. After a day, rinse the plants and repeat the treatment again if necessary. This home remedy works quite reliably against aphids in the garden if the infestation is low.
• If you put a couple of cigarette butts in a sealable glass with water in the sun for 3 days, the liquid afterwards filter and spray on infested plants with a flower sprayer, you have a relatively reliable home remedy for aphids Garden. Here, however, you should keep in mind that nicotine is also useful for it insects is poisonous. It is also not advisable to use it on vegetables

Additional author: Claudia Fürst