You surely do!! Some nice Safers Soap or Dr. Bronners or other natural soap sprayed on the aphids very early in the AM before the sun is strong (and so that the plants dry before the sun gets strong) will take care of it. Spraying early also avoids spraying bees and other good workers.

Kris, have you used a strongish spray of water on the aphids? It will knock them off sans chemicals. Let us know. Garden looking wonderful!

girlgroupgirl-Thanks for the two suggestions.

rosiew-No I have not tried that. I put some bait traps out for that ants, but I may give the water spray a try. Thanks for the kudos on the garden, I am still learning but I always appreciate compliments.

I had some ants farming aphids on the eggplants a few weeks ago. I used 3 Tbsp. sugar, 1 c. water and 1 teasp. borax and shook it up. Soaked cotton balls in this solution and the ants have since disappeared. Took about 3-4 days. I put the cotton balls out in the PM and took them in for the PM lest any bees drink the solution. My aphids were stickers so I had to soap them, water wouldn't knock them off.

Last night I went out for a bike ride for about an hour, returned to find a MILLION of those little round stink bugs all over the climbing beans. Grrrr! They were all caught in my hair too, hundreds of them. This is another of those buggy years.