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--- Quote from: HMHausman on April 04, 2012, 03:34:11 PM ---OK...so I love Brussels Sprouts.  I eat them roasted in olive oil and various seasonings many times per week in my meals.  So I planted some out in my garden for the second season in a row. Last year, they grew beautifully but I planted too late and they matured when it was too warm and wet and they got a nasty fungus and were eaten up by some unknown bug.  So, I planted earlier this year.  Large, gorgeous plants grew.  The little sprouts were just coming up to size.  I went out this past weekend to harvest them.  To my disgust, there was a complete covering of each every sprout with a thick herd of fat aphids.  I mean by the thousands and no sprout was left unattended by these little suckers.  I was so upset I just gave up and went back inside muttering under my breath.  I did not do any spraying and prefer not to do any. Has anyone any consoling words of advice or encouragement? I hate to have another competely wasted cop....but I am not interested in creating a toxic waste dump in my garden.

Harry

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I would get the little plants you have started into the ground three months before an expected late December-early February harvest. I really like them too. The ones in the supermarket are expensive and tasteless and usually come all the way from California when they could be grown in Georgia which is where we get lots of our cool season greens. You can get that same caramelized/roasted effect with kale too. Just put it in a hot oiled pan then cover with heat down low and you'll get lots of browned caramelization...the same reason people like pizza with a little bit of overcooked charred and brown spots on the crust and dittos for bread being toasted

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