Last year in September I applied a Fall fertilizer to my lawn. About a week or so later I got infested with aphids. All of the pots were on my concrete patio and pulled back about 3 feet from the edge where the lawn starts. I was basically waiting for my last round of pods to ripen so my only treatment of the aphids was to hose them off. There were literally hundreds washing off and the water carried them off the patio and into the lawn.
So here's my two questions:
1. Did my application of fertilizer to the lawn attract the aphids to my yard? I'm not sure if aphids are attracted to the nitrogen in grass blades. Maybe I shouldn't fertilize the lawn?
2. What about the aphids that I washed off into the lawn? Did they overwinter in my yard? Are they sitting there in the grass by the edge of the patio waiting for me to bring out my young, healthy fatali, burkina, datil, and bih jolokia plants.
So here's my two questions:
1. Did my application of fertilizer to the lawn attract the aphids to my yard? I'm not sure if aphids are attracted to the nitrogen in grass blades. Maybe I shouldn't fertilize the lawn?
2. What about the aphids that I washed off into the lawn? Did they overwinter in my yard? Are they sitting there in the grass by the edge of the patio waiting for me to bring out my young, healthy fatali, burkina, datil, and bih jolokia plants.
