green fly

[magda_xxx]

heeelp!!!! i have green fly on my plants! how to get rid of them?
I used spray from the store but I do not see the result they are still on my plants!

 

[Hetairoi]

Spray them with soapy water every day.

 

[United57]

As Hetairoi said soapy water, cheap and effective.

 

[magda_xxx]

Thanks! lol i didn't have an idea can be so easy!

 

[Gadget]

Or there is my Dads method. Sqush 'em with your fingers. Ewwww but efffective.
G x

 

[basil]

Spray them with soapy water every day.

Is that water with washing-up liquid or camay/lux ?........

 

[magda_xxx]

Or there is my Dads method. Sqush 'em with your fingers. Ewwww but efffective.
G x

Thanks Gadget! I did try carry on to squash them a few days unfortunatley there is lots of them and it is just impossible to kill all.
They seem to be less happy today after bath with soapy water

 

[basil]

Or there is my Dads method. Sqush 'em with your fingers. Ewwww but efffective.
G x

Thanks Gadget! I did try carry on to squash them a few days unfortunatley there is lots of them and it is just impossible to kill all.
They seem to be less happy today after bath with soapy water

Was it your bath-water?..... just thinking out loud ......

 

[tek-monkey]

Is it OK to do this on plants that are flowering? My chillies are being mobbed at the min.

 

[Hetairoi]

I use a little washing up liquid in a cheap hand sprayer you can buy from Wilkinson,

You can use it on Greenfly or Blackfly and on edible crops as well as flowers, just don't sray your veg just before eating as it tastes horrible.

So yes spray those chillies tek-monkey!

 

[magda_xxx]

Or there is my Dads method. Sqush 'em with your fingers. Ewwww but efffective.
G x

Thanks Gadget! I did try carry on to squash them a few days unfortunatley there is lots of them and it is just impossible to kill all.
They seem to be less happy today after bath with soapy water

Was it your bath-water?..... just thinking out loud ......

hmm i didn't think about :/ save earth save water??? grrrr

 

[Gramaisc]

1, Try to spray the soapy water upwards. They mostly hang about under the leaves - what misses will fall down on the top surface then.

2, It is technically illegal to use such an uncertified substance as a weedkiller - so, if anybody asks, then you are merely washing the plants. Enjoy being an outlaw, and saving money.

 

[magda_xxx]

1, Try to spray the soapy water upwards. They mostly hang about under the leaves - what misses will fall down on the top surface then.

2, It is technically illegal to use such an uncertified substance as a weedkiller - so, if anybody asks, then you are merely washing the plants. Enjoy being an outlaw, and saving money.

Thanks! I did not use chemicals because my daughter is very curious and has to touch everything and just worried I would poison her insted
like you says I did spray upwards it seem that they don't like eat soap at all on the moment i could see only a few

 

[Gramaisc]

1, Try to spray the soapy water upwards. They mostly hang about under the leaves - what misses will fall down on the top surface then.

2, It is technically illegal to use such an uncertified substance as a weedkiller - so, if anybody asks, then you are merely washing the plants. Enjoy being an outlaw, and saving money.

Thanks! I did not use chemicals because my daughter is very curious and has to touch everything and just worried I would poison her insted
like you says I did spray upwards it seem that they don't like eat soap at all on the moment i could see only a few

Tell her that touching things gives you chicken-pox.

It isn't the eating of the soap that kills them, it is the increased surface tension of the water that forms a film over their spiracles ( breathing holes ) and so they 'drown' - don't have nightmares.....

 

[Gadget]

GREENFLY MURDERER!!!! pmsl
G x

 

[basil]

" The Soap Killers" .....

 

[magda_xxx]

1, Try to spray the soapy water upwards. They mostly hang about under the leaves - what misses will fall down on the top surface then.

2, It is technically illegal to use such an uncertified substance as a weedkiller - so, if anybody asks, then you are merely washing the plants. Enjoy being an outlaw, and saving money.

Thanks! I did not use chemicals because my daughter is very curious and has to touch everything and just worried I would poison her insted
like you says I did spray upwards it seem that they don't like eat soap at all on the moment i could see only a few

Tell her that touching things gives you chicken-pox.

It isn't the eating of the soap that kills them, it is the increased surface tension of the water that forms a film over their spiracles ( breathing holes ) and so they 'drown' - don't have nightmares.....

hahaha nightmares!!! never i would like them to die rather than to eat my beatiful peppers plants!!!

 

[magda_xxx]

GREENFLY MURDERER!!!! pmsl
G x

ohhh well just somtimes

 

[magda_xxx]

" The Soap Killers" .....

 

[John Marwood]

http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=l7TEjD6Lhd8

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