Beneficial Garden Companions

  Grow companion plants as a border around other plants, or mixed within rows or throughout a bed. Basil: enhances growth, repels flying insects; plant with lettuce, peppers, tomatoes. Beans: deters potato beetles, fixes nitrogen; plant with cabbage family, corn, eggplant, lettuce, marigolds, petunias, potatoes. Carrots: keep away from dill; plant with lettuce, marigolds, onions, […]
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  Plant a lavender hedge around the onion patch to protect them from onion maggot and lavender bushes around fruit trees to deter codling moth. Rosemary planted near carrots deters carrot fly and bean beetle. Sprigs of rosemary placed with clothes will repel moths and silverfish. Put sage bushes near doorways to keep ants away. […]
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