How Do You Eliminate Ants And Aphids In Greenhouse Gardening?
Greenhouse gardening provides a protected environment, but outdoor pests happily become squatters, especially if you have a natural earth floor. You’ll want to eliminate ants and aphids when greenhouse gardening because the ants can actually protect and create more aphids, spreading them live to every plant in the greenhouse (ants harvest honeydew from aphids for food without killing them). Aphids not only destroy plants directly, their honeydew can cause a black mold to grow on plants. Luckily, by eliminating ants, you can often also eliminate aphids in your greenhouse much more easily. Here’s a simple and natural method that works synergistically to eliminate ants and aphids together. This article is copyrighted and written for the eHow site only. Contact author for permission to reprint. Fill the air with mint essential oil. You can often eliminate ants with the scent of mint because ants are repelled by it. They don’t go immediately screaming and running out the door the first inst
