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Treatment for Whitefly

glenda

By Glenda

United Kingdom Gb

I have been away a week and came back to find my chiilis and peppers covered in whitefly, any ideas of a treatment without using chemicals?




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hi put some fairy liquid in your sprayer the blighters dont seem to like it

27 Aug, 2009

 

Or hang yellow sticky traps above them - keep tapping the plants to make the whitefly fly up and they will be attracted by the yellow.

27 Aug, 2009

 

Plant some lemon scented geraniums in the vicinty of the plants. This keeps whitefly away.

9 Apr, 2010

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