The Plant Mistress

I have a lovely wee herb garden in my kitchen window.  I have a dill plant and I’d noticed it was getting odd little bright green bumps on the stem.  I didn’t really pay much attention to it until I was doing my weekly pruning.  To my distress, those little bumps were aphids!

I don’t know what I was thinking, thinking that the bumps weren’t a big deal.  I’m not sure where the aphids came from as I did quarentine the dill before adding it to my garden.  Not wanting to put chemical insecticides on the dill, I took it outside and hit it with the hose, using a strong mist setting.  That dislodged the aphids and as the plant is still growing well, I left it outside.  I also checked my other herbs and thankfully, the aphids hadn’t migrated to those.

I plan on checking the dill in a few days, just to make sure I got them all off.  I don’t know what it is about bugs on plants, but they totally freak me out.  Aphids on dill, mealybugs on various things, evil scale, aphids on the bamboo…uggg, they are just wrong!