What is an organic way to get rid of aphids in your garden?

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Here are some things to try. Blast them off with a hose or a squirt bottle. Look into integrated pest management.

You can buy 4,500 ladybugs for $33. Attract birds to your yard with a bird bath. Check out the Arizona Native Plant Society for plants that will attract birds that eat aphids.

They have this interesting pamphlet on replacing exotic plants with natives. If the aphids are attacking one particular stem, cut it off and throw it in the trash. Your rose bush will grow a new stem, and that one may have been damaged beyand repair anyway.

Many times, you can hold a bucket under the affected stem and brush the aphids off with a twig or your gloved finger, then wash the aphids down the drain. Or, you could let them live, knowing that aphids are part of the food web. If you have an outbreak of aphids, this could attract their natural predators, your allies, and the outbreak may subside to an acceptable level over time.

There's also this stuff, although I haven't tried it. Bannned's Recommendations IPM for Gardeners: A Guide to Integrated Pest Management Amazon List Price: $27.95 Used from: $11.95 .

Go to your local nursery... ...and buy a bag of ladybugs. Should be about $10. Let the ravenous little buggers go in your garden.

Bye-bye aphids. Brewfisher's Recommendations 1500 Live LadyBugs - GOOD BUGS! .

IPM... Which is integrated pest management. There are organic sprays you can use (I wouldn't want to on edibles..), but both lady bugs and parasitic (pepsid) wasps are available commercially to control aphids and their eggs. A good source all types of environment friendly garden products is Gardens Alive!(gardensalive.com) .

Direct a strong stream of water from garden hose onto the aphids .

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I just saw on the local news that today Michelle Obama broke ground on a vegetable garden on the White House lawn.

I have chipmunks in my garden. How do you get rid of them? They are making holes everywhere.

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