No, this will not stop aphids. Aphids tend to spread from plant to plant either by flying or crawling from leaf to leaf. A ring of eggshells at the base of a plant is traditionally thought to keep slugs away, but this is also untrue—eggshells just aren’t sharp or gritty enough to damage slugs’ bodies.
No, this will not stop aphids. Aphids tend to spread from plant to plant either by flying or crawling from leaf to leaf. A ring of eggshells at the base of a plant is traditionally thought to keep slugs away, but this is also untrue—eggshells just aren’t sharp or gritty enough to damage slugs’ bodies.