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Blackfly
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does anyone know how to get rid of blackfly off runner bean plants.
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Piphop
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Try a spray? I had loads, caked on thick on my runners at the allotment. Since I have no hose there, I couldn't blast them off with water, so I tried a slightly soapy spray. That method is normally ok, but it didn't work on such a number, so I went out and bought a bug killer. It worked perfectly, cleared the lot and even tho some are slowly returning, it's a small enough amount to go back to soap.
Or you could wipe them off with your fingers. Not something I can bring myself to do, eww. Yep, am a wimp!
I would use a jet from a hosepipe or my fingers, but if you can't bear to do that then use a paintbrush, the sort you use for doing the architrave around the doors - and brush them off.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had quite a few on my broad beans so I filled a squirty bottle up with plain water and washed them off with my fingers I returned several days later and there are more blackfly than there had been before but as all the beans have now been picked I'm no longer bothered.