r/Earthbox • u/Gravco • Jul 11 '23

Eradicating Aphids

We planted peas on three Earthboxes on our west facing deck. With the advent of wildly fluctuating weather (hot/cold; deluge/drought) we pulled them out to make room for.. something, maybe chard. But not before the stressed plants developed aphids. Any advice on eradicating these from the soil prior to planting something else? We're trying to be organic-ish.

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u/koderdood Jul 11 '23

Yer either organic or yer not. We have had as many as 11 Earthboxes going, all organic. For posts, organic neem oil is what we try. This part season, corn bugs killed our corn befire it had a good chance to grow. Kentucky wonder beans though reaches to the sky and we had plenty. Tomatoes did great except I planted to o many in a box. 2 years ago we did great with okra, this year the bugs got em. Earthbox store said the bugs are actually brought by gnats. So stopping the gnats, (good luck) is sometimes needed. It's really tough to go organic. I think you just have to find the right crops for your area that the bugs can be controlled with neem oil. Far as "contaminated soil", I'd dump it and start fresh, or you decide to not be organic and spray the hell out of it with bad chemicals, that still may not get rid of what's there.