Re: Aphids and soapy spray

"David in Normandy" <davidinnormandy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Mary Fisher wrote:
>> "Martin Brown" <|||newspam|||@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Simplest cheap one is probably as good as any. The fat based soft
soaps 
>>> are supposed to be better at gungin up insect breathing holes.
>>
>> You could spray thin cooking oil, that would impede their respiration.
>>
>> Mary
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> Still thinking about barbequing them? :-)

I don't barbeque. I barbecue :-)

> Baste with cooking oil and turn until well done.

You forget, I got rid of my lupins :-)

Oil is used as a biotechnical method of controlling mites in beehives by 
some beekeepers. I reckon it would work on lupin aphids - AND prepare them

for the barbecue. I prefer even larger lumps of meat :-)

Mary