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Friday, February 15, 2013

Aphids on Lettuce


Found aphids on my lettuce today. Gasp!!!! I blasted some off with small spray bottle. This is bad news.

I have read up about aphids online. They are nasty...no wonder my lettuces look so tired. I have a few options:

1. The liquid detergent, baking soda water spray method. I tried but quickly rinsed them off the leaves, feeling it could burn the lettuce.

2. Garlic water spray method. I am going to spray some tomorrow once I let the boiling garlic water sit for a night.

I harvested some non-damaged leaves today. Photo here is a shot of the after-harvest look.

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