Aphids and soapy spray

Yesterday for the first time I tried spraying a big lupin with warm 
water and washing up liquid. The plant was absolutely heaving with 
thousands of aphids and starting to look quite poorly and wilting.
Today 99% of the aphids are black, shrivelled and dead. I'm really 
impressed how quick and effective it has been.

I sprayed the plant in the full heat and blaze of yesterday afternoons 
sun which probably helped kill off the little buggers. I'll spray again 
this afternoon which also looks like being a scorcher to see if it will 
kill off the remainder. I used about twice the amount of washing up 
liquid as I'd use in a washing up bowl for washing dishes but this 
amount was only in one of those little plant sprayers. The concentration 
seems to have been good.

I'm very impressed with this "non-toxic" approach. :-)
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