Hi,
I have a number of pepper, chilli, courgette and tomato plants indoors that are now infested with aphids. Two of the plants have now lost all their leaves and the little * are all over the rest, they are seething with a living carpet of them. The plants really are suffering, I even have two pepper plants that still look like little seedlings after 4 weeks.
As it dropped to 2C last night it is still too cold round here to leave them out for the ladybirds, they also are not particularly impressed with me trying to bring them in and fly off. Squashing by hand takes a long time and they are all back again by the next day. Spray does nothing. I have now tried filling my sink and submerging the plants and then moving them around by hand. It does not get them all off but it is faster than squashing. Is it a bad idea to do this? Any other ideas?