A few mornings ago, while sipping my morning coffee and doing a little reading (ok, I wasn’t really reading… I was instagramming), I noticed these tiny winged devils. EEK!! They were flying and walking all over my basil and my mint.

After a mini freak-out and some quick internet research (love me some Google!) I identified said creatures as: aphids. GROSS. I desperately tried to snap a pic of these suckers for you all to see, but they are just too tiny for my iPhone camera to catch.

I immediately called SEESTER (the real farmer in the family) and asked her what to do. If at all possible, I didn’t want to use pesticides on my sweet plant friends. In order to grow organic, I went to a great deal of trouble buying organic seeds, potting soil, and I even started composting!