[Carmen7878]

Hi all, I am in my second year of veggie growing, this year, unlike last year my runner beans are infested with black fly - what is the organic solution or will they do no harm if I just leave them?

[Ropster]

I dont know if its considered Organic but a week soap (fairy liquid) solution will shift them, or just rub them off
I have them all over my runners as well, I thought they were ment to be immune. However they are also on my Broad Beans, rhubarb, Beatroot and gooseberry. Must be a bad year

[flowerpot]

HI,  an allotment buddy passed on some ''Dr Bronner's Magic Soap''  its an 18-in-one Hemp Peppermint Pure-Castile Soap - organic, vegan, not tested on animals.  You dilute 1-2 tablespoons in 1 quart of water. She got it somewhere on the internet.  Anyway, I sprayed my badly infested broad beans, the next day, they were all still sitting there ( the flies, that is !) but all dead. That was 2 weeks ago, problem sorted!!   I will be buying my own.    ..... I'm Feeling very clever, this is the first time I've tried to sort someone else's problem!!!  

[Aunt Sally]

I use soft soap - it works a treat

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