I planted a garden, I'm on the east coast:

I removed the grass & weeds

tilled up the soil

put down organic top soil 1/2 layer, it is contains food & also lime

I grew my plants from seeds indoors, with organic soil

When I planted I mixed in extra peat moss

Things are looking really good, but I see lots of ants...should I be concerned about aphids???

Thanks!

Hi Ya'll,

Refreshed got it correct in that it may be the Sugars of the Leaf that the Aphid is Sucking out and this is what the Ants are Milking the Aphids for, so to speak !

Now the Question "WHY" is the Aphid Sucking Sugars out of the Leaf of the Plant?

As most folks who start to learn about the Natural Sugars of a Plant and the correlation of the Brix, with the Higher Natural Sugars meaning Better Brix, most of the time?

So, what is Different in this case?

Remember that a Plant has a growing cycle, which MEANS THAT IT is working towards Maturity with the Hope of being Top Quality with High Brix and Highly Mineralized !

This means that the plant is going to have cycles whereas it is trying to convert the Electro-magnetic Energies from the Atomosphere into Plant Matter !

And until it has matured it is going to be in various stages of Building Plant matter !

And it has to deal with something called a Carbon to Nitrogen ratio !

If the Nitrogen gets too High in comparision to the carbons and it is Lacking the needed Alkaline Minerals, then this Plant will De-Magnetize and become too Acidic and Decay and Die !

Like wise if the Plant runs out of Nitrogen and Lacks enough to the amount of carbons during it's growing cycle, "Before" it is ready to Properly Mature it may also De-Magnetize and Die or mature too early without properly Complexing the Alkaline Minerals and Nitrogen into True Proteins and Complexed Sugars !

Now, we have both Chewing Bugs, which eat the leaf it's self, which one may look at the Leaf and see if the Bug is a Chewing Bug, for it will Remove parts of the leaf by Eating it !

And we have the Sucking Bug, like the aphid, which may Suck the Non-Complexed Sugars from plant leaf, if the plant has run Low of needed Nitrogen in comparison to the amount of Carbons !

For these Sugars are Carbons and if the plant does not have the correct Carbon to Nitrogen ratios, it will not grow properly !

And what generally happens to bring the Aphids may be that the Plant may take in too much Nitrogen to begin with(Like in Rainy weather)and the Plant is not getting enough of the needed Complexed Carbohydrates(Needed Carbons) for the needed Carbon to Nitrogen ratios for this plant and this Excess of Nitrogne may cause the Plant to pull in too much Water and become too Acidic and then the Plant begins to De-Magnetize and the next thing it is Short of Nitrogen because it has De-Magnetized and the Plant is being Forced into pre-maturity before it has Completed the Complexing of the Carbohydrates !

This Causes too much Non-Complexed Sugars in ratio to the Nitrogen and the Aphids are trying to Milk the Leaf of these Excess Un-Complexed Sugars to bring the Nitrogen back into the needed ratios for the Plant to finish it's growing !

It may be compared to a person who has Diabetes because of their Diet of Refined and Processed Foods containing too much Simple Sugars, which the body cannot Stablize with !

What happens with the Simple Sugars is that the person eats them and they Rush to the body supplying Immediate Energy, but it is like a Solid Rocket, which once the Blast has taken place, there is "Nothing" to continue on !

And after this Rush of Energy to a Diabetic from Simple Sugars,then as the Blast is over and "NOTHING" more is being Released, the next moment this person is Falling off a 1000 foot cliff to the Valley below in a state of Depression!

But, if this person would learn to feed their bodys with Complete Complexed Natural Sugars, these have Complexed Carbons in them, which will help Stablize the Release of Energy and Cause the release of Energy to last over a longer time frame, thus preventing the Zoom to the Top of the Mountain and then the fall off the Cliff to the valley below !

The same is for the Plant which is Lacking in the ability to have the Correct Carbon to Nitrogen ratios because of the lack of needed Alkaline Minerals and Live Carbons to Stablize this action !

Thus this Plant will have too much Nitrogen then not enough and the Bugs shall move in for Lunch !

In the case of a Chewing Bug, where the Nitrogen gets too high and stays too high for any number of reasons, like the use of too much Nitrogen fertilizers, the Chewing Bug shall eat the leaf it's self, in an attempt to Reduce the leaf size, which will cause the Plant to not be able to Receive as much Nitrogen from the Atomosphere !

If one does not understand what to do to correct the Carbon to Nitrogen ratios needed for a Healthy Plant,and their Garden Plants get Aphids, then they may buy some Snuff from the smoking section in the store and put this Snuff in water and spray it on the plants and the aphids will leave because of the nicotine in the Snuff ! And just 1 small can of Snuff in 100 gallons of water generally is strong enough ! One could add some Blackstrap Molasses to help it stick onto the leaves !

As usual not everything may be as it may first seem to be !

Cause and Effect !

"WE" are What "WE" Eat !

Smile Tis your choice.