[Hazel Anne]

Help i have the little black crawley things on the Broad bean plants.I took the tops out as i had read to do but they have run lower down the plant!!
What do i do now?

[franmeerkat]

Might be worth giving them a soapy spray, and planting some nasturtium close by as a sacrificial plant.

[Hazel Anne]

i have some of them so can put the pot by them.
What do you meen by soapy water?
As in washing up water or soap and water?
Soz to be thick!
The plants are covered in flowers.

[dereklane]

soap flakes mixed in water, also with a little rapeseed oil doesn't hurt. It basically suffocated them, as I understand it.

[Hazel Anne]

I gave them a wash with soapy water and have moved the nasturtiums next to them,but the nasturtiums have the black bugs on them!
will the bugs prefere the nasturtiums and keep away from the beans (is that the idea?) :?:

[franmeerkat]

Yep, that's exactly the idea! You'll probably find that the nasturtiums get completely covered by black fly.