Hi Rob! In response to your question about aphids, you can control them effectively (if you don't have dozens of plants) by just going out every day or so and hosing the plants off. This blasts the aphids away and they do not crawl bac to the plant. Of course you will need to keep this up as there are always a few that manage to survive and I think the litle buggers are either born pregnant or are parthenogenic! Anyway its organic! Peace, love and peppers Lorraine