ladybugs?

Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on January 20, 2000 at 13:46:15:

In Reply to: Re: WHITE FLY/APHID SOLUTIONS!! posted by Natasha on January 19, 2000 at 17:50:22:

My old hippie gardening books always recommended ladybugs as an
anti-aphid treatment. Are such still available and useful? Do
ladybugs still like aphids for lunch? Also, I used to stick onions and
marigolds next to the roses and cabbages that were bothered with
aphids .... and when the roses got aphid attacks, I'd break off onion
greens and smush them all over the rose parts where there were aphids
and they'd go away. Paint the henna with onion juice?
Sorry I didn't remember that before, it's been a few decades since I
thought about that.....

Follow-ups:

• Re: ladybugs? Natasha Papousek 14:14:05 1/20/00 (1)
  • Re: ladybugs? lisa 01:08:22 1/21/00 (0)