I have to look for a certain plant that the Aphids like a whole lot more than the bananas… plant it on the periphery so that the Aphids will gravitate towards that instead of the bananas… as much as possible you wouldnt want to attack aphids directly because they flee the danger area and migrate to the other plants in their vicinity… bringing along with them the plant diseases they carry…

Don’t you just love Sunday afternoons talking with relatives? you pick up a lot of information in the mix… hehehe

I started noticing an Aphid infestation in the bananas and this is something I want to put a clamp on before it gets out of hand… because Aphids spread diseases in bananas…

Asking a fellow bananero, he said that I should use some Ditane to get rid of the Aphids… I was looking for a more organic approach (i.e. one that doesn’t burn a hole in the wallet *snicker*) to the problem so I asked around and I found out that you can use garlic/pepper and detergent combination for pest control… hmmmm? I wonder which will do the killing? the detergent or the garlic/pepper combination?… hehehe…

The detergent is there to act as a binder… this it the first time I heard detergents being used as a binder as I am more familiar with the use of a sachet of shampoo *snicker*

Oh well, if it still doesn’t work, there’s always ditane…

I made enough mixture for 4 months… whewww… started at 4PM and finished off by 7PM…

The sem break afforded us some time to get some other responsibilities in order. Which of course equates to my bananas… have been neglecting them lately, letting others do the manual labor… another of course was to grab an oppurtunity to go up to General Santos to look at a production facility… an invite from an Uncle… looking forward to that too by next week.

Today I took time out to walk the fields (wow as if it were a big field , trust me it didn’t take that long to walk it *snicker*) and try to discover why some of my bananas were bowling over after some pretty strong rain fall… well it was only for a particular patch of field that I noticed that some bananas would fall over…

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