Found a cheap fix for aphids that actually worked on my roses

I was losing a whole row of rose bushes to aphids last spring and nothing from the garden center was helping. Tried blasting them off with water every morning for about a week straight and they kept coming back. My neighbor finally told me to mix a teaspoon of dish soap with a quart of water and spray the undersides of the leaves. Did that three days in a row and the aphids were totally gone by day four. Has anyone else had luck with dish soap vs store bought sprays on their plants?

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murray.cole3d ago

My grandpa used the same trick on his tomatoes back in the 80s, and it's funny how the simplest stuff (like dish soap) often works better than all the fancy chemical sprays they push at the store.

jennifer_west522d ago

Gotta disagree with you there. My buddy tried the dish soap thing on his zucchini last summer and it nuked the leaves, turned them yellow and crispy in like two days. Those old school tricks might've worked back when pest pressure was lower and plants were tougher, but we've got different bugs now. Plus the stuff they sell at the store actually goes through testing so you know what you're getting. I'm not saying all chemicals are great but a lot of those home remedies are mostly just folk tales that got passed down without anyone checking if they really worked.