I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help.
I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help.

slrpnk.net
I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help. - SLRPNK

Cross-post from !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
Okay, just from the pictures, let me say what I think is happening:
You clear this up in about a week with a few simple things:
Don't leave standing water around, and make sure that you stay on schedule with the soap spray. Most of this will be cleared in just a week.
Edit: also for the slugs and stuff, you're growing a lot of stuff in a mostly shaded area, so you're just asking for slugs. Line a general area around your plants with Diatomaceous Earth. It's cheap, easy to use, and doesn't harm anything that doesn't crawl. Also, organic.
Double edit: DO NOT spray this black bugs with the striped butts. Those will be ladybugs soon that eat all the aphids. They are good.
Great response!
Wasps fly a rather straight pattern back to their nest. Find the nest by using some food they like, such as a sugar drink, and see where they fly to when they leave. Move the container closer until you find the nest.
OR, OR, OR...a pheromone trap which I already mentioned many times.
Funnily enough, my weed is pretty much the only thing (and chillis) that isn't much affected. The willow is the worst one, and the pepino second.
Those larvae pictures are already a bit older, maybe two weeks? They probably got killed by the ants or wasps, because I rarely see them around anymore.
I also rarely see any other aphid eating insects anymore, only ants and ants carrying carcasses :(
Okay, so why are you coming here with this dire plea, but not giving up to date information?
Makes me think you don't actually care and might be lazy....
Lacewings Are better ladybugs will only hangout during the initial stages and once there isn't enough to go around most will leave.