Holy crap, it makes me cringe just looking at this. What plants are these?
They are on my pepper overwinters. I usually cut off all but a fistfull of roots and about an equal part is left on top, but this year the cold came early for us and I still had a lot of peppers that were immature, so I left those branches on hopping to get the fruit - it worked, but also caused me a lot of headache as you can see from the pictures... outside there's plenty of natural predators to keep the aphids at bay, but in my house they had free range to take over unscathed.