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Homes & Gardens
Holly Crossley

Are aphids attacking your plants? Try this tomato foliage spray – an easy, DIY hack recommended by a vegetable gardening expert

Tomato plants growing.

I'm always on the lookout for simple solutions to deter garden pests, and if they can be made at home, even better. So, when a DIY aphid-tackling spray fell onto my radar recently, I was intrigued – especially due to its surprising key ingredient: tomato leaves.

I came across this natural pest control hack via a video on Instagram, where it was posted by gardening expert and founder of Gardenary Inc., Nicole Burke. Using tomato leaves to get rid of aphids was a new concept to me, and, as I'm tending to my own tomato crop this year, I had to find out more.

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