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tricia:
The attack on my Cobra and Moonlight beans has started early this year!  :BangHead: I'm having to spray daily with a soapy water mixture to keep them at bay - as well as water most  of the young plants pretty much every day due to lack of rain.

Tricia  :wave:

ancellsfarmer:

--- Quote from: tricia on June 05, 2020, 13:20:48 ---The attack on my Cobra and Moonlight beans has started early this year!  :BangHead: I'm having to spray daily with a soapy water mixture to keep them at bay - as well as water most  of the young plants pretty much every day due to lack of rain.

Tricia  :wave:

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Are they being 'farmed' by ants? If so, you might try a drop or two of Nippon in a small bottle  at the base of the sticks.

Obelixx:
Have you tried planting nasturtiums in and near your beans?   I use them as sacrificial plants as they attract aphids and butterflies.   

The only beans I've had success with here are broad beans, sown in the ground in late November.   They enjoyed the wet winter and were already cropping before any blackfly arrived.   Too dry for green or other beans but I'm still sowng nasturtiums, just in case.

BarriedaleNick:
My climbing beans got blackfly before they even started twisting round the bamboo!
Should not have put them so close to the broadies!

saddad:
Touchwood... the only ones I have seen have been on one head of elderflowers.. of the 20 I picked that OH has turned into cordial.... but I haven't grown any broad beans. Have had aphids on the new tips of the cherry but pruned it all off.

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