[cooperman]

Whats the best way of bumping off these pesky critters?

[davethespread]

someone told me to dissolve 3 tablespoons of sugar in 3 tablespoons of vinegar add this to one litre of water, put it in a litre sized sprayer then add a tablespoon of washing up liquid.apparently it does for whitefly,greenfly and blackfly.i have'nt tried it myself but i am going to next season,i hope it works for you.

[Jay Dubya]

Hi, they do take a bit of killing but our head gardener talked of something called wetter its a pure soap its organic but according to him it works, don't ask me how cos i don't know, but i do know that my brussels are covered with them AAAAAHHHHH!!!

[aelf]

I cleared my brassica plot yesterday and there were so many white fly it looked like it was snowing!! Got to try something next year. 

[Ropster]

I sprayed mine with water with washing up liquid in and it reduced them a bit

[Jay Dubya]

Hi, perhaps thats why the pure soap works.

[aelf]

soap! brilliant - no white fly and clean veg...

It's the future! 

[strangerachael]

It seems to be a particularly bad year for them. Marigolds are supposed to repel them but my marigolds seem to be teeming with them as well. A good frost is usually what gets them in the end but we could still be waiting a few weeks...

[cooperman]

someone told me to dissolve 3 tablespoons of sugar in 3 tablespoons of vinegar add this to one litre of water, put it in a litre sized sprayer then add a tablespoon of washing up liquid.apparently it does for whitefly,greenfly and blackfly.i have'nt tried it myself but i am going to next season,i hope it works for you.

Many thanks for the info - I will try this out as the soap only method had no effect other than making them nice and clean and well scrubbed up!!

In actual fact under these home made remedies are illegal but who cares!! hehe

thanks to the rest for their input/sympathy!

cheers