Saturday, 11 July 2015

Beneficial beasties come to the garden

Bee on an onion flower
Bees of course are always welcome.
Ladybird
Ladybirds have also arrived. This is excellent, as I have a major aphid problem and have been going round spraying everything with diluted washing-up liquid (probably about 1/2-1 teaspoon per litre of water), which kills them, but is very time consuming. By the way, because I live in the EU where using untested pesticides is illegal and washing-up liquid is an untested pesticide, if anyone asks, technically I'm washing my aphids not trying to kill them. The fact that a washed aphid is a dead aphid is purely coincidental, honest.

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