Spring is Around the Corner, And So Are the Pests
Just when I think I can get away with ignoring my winter crop of lettuce, the temperature climbs to the 70s and my lettuce is covered in insects! I'm pretty sure these are aphids (the kind that are brown in color) and they were very happy to destroy my Romaine and start in on my Buttercrunch.
The Romaine could not be salvaged and had to be thrown out. Though I would rather not use systemic organic pest controls in order to protect beneficial insects, I treated the remaining lettuce heads that were not as badly infested with Neem oil and strong blasts of water to knock off the aphids.
Aphids also cropped up on my Moonflower seedlings. I did another Neem treatment and some water blasts - hopefully they will be spared any damage.
