One year, I planted 10 rows of black eyed peas. They grew fast and produced well. I was letting the pods dry on the plants - then I had a down week where I didn't go out to the garden. When my health improved, I went out to check on the peas and they were covered in black aphids. There were so many that you could see them from 30 feet away. It was like fireants swarming on a candy cane.
I carefully pulled up each plant putting them in a large plastic trash can and took them straight to our burning barrel. We didn't get a single pea that year, but we haven't had that bad of a problem with aphids since.
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