I was sitting on the porch yesterday and thought the stems of my strawberry plants, in large hanging baskets, looked a little funny. I got up for a better look and found quite a few Aphids. I just happened to have a spray bottle sitting on the table with Young Living’s Palo Santo essential oil in it. I lightly sprayed the Aphids, they didn’t like that so much. I assumed they died. 

Today, I checked my strawberry plants again and saw a few Aphids. This time I used a mixture of Young Living’s Peppermint essential oil (20 drops) and the blend Purification (20 drops) (my spray bottles are 32 oz. and filled with water to which I add my drops of essential oils). 

I lightly spritzed my two hanging baskets of strawberries and felt that the Aphids vanished quicker with the mixture of Peppermint and Purification. Just for good measure, I went around an spritzed all of my potted plants and hanging baskets. I noticed that one of my wooden planters, the kind attached to the railing of  a porch, had dozens of tiny ants (you may want to read my tiny ant story). I gave the soil around those plants a mist of this mixture, clearly the ants were making a nest in the soil and tried to flee, they didn’t get very far.  -  Evelyn V.