What is companion gardening?
There are certain plants, flowering, herbs and vegetables that help each other out in the garden. Some plants help others to grow while others help keep away certain pests. Plants, much like people, have friends they prefer to be around.
Some plants harbor insects, both good and bad. A plant known to be the home of a certain pest is helpful in keeping that pest away from other plants. You’ll find your gardening less a chore if you plan for a companionable garden, both in the landscape and the vegetable garden.
Flowers and Their Friends
Roses: Plant garlic among your roses to help repel aphids. Parsley also helps repel pests common to roses. Folklore says to plant banana skins around the base of roses since they are rich in silica and phosphorus, two minerals roses love.
Aster: Most pests will stay away because they don’t like the taste or the smell
Nasturtium: Plant plenty around cabbage, squash, zucchini, radishes, lettuce and fruit trees. Nasturtium helps repel cucumber beetles, aphids and whiteflies. It supposedly gives radishes a good hot taste. It is a good “trap crop”, luring snails and slugs away from other plants.
Carnations: Don’t plant hyacinth before or after, they don’t like each other.
Gladiolus: Keep at least 75 feet away from peas, beans and strawberries.
Marigold: Marigolds help control nematodes and are very beneficial to roses, bulbs, root vegetables and strawberries. They also help protect beans from the Mexican beetle and help reduce whiteflies from attacking with your tomatoes.
Petunia: These perky bloomers help keep away squash, potato and bean beetles.
Sunflower: These tall beauties are a great help in attracting birds and bees to the garden. In turn, the birds and bees help regulate the number of pests in the garden. You can also use sunflower stalks as a climbing pole for climbing plants that don’t mind a bit of shade.
Source
Happy Gardening.
Some plants harbor insects, both good and bad. A plant known to be the home of a certain pest is helpful in keeping that pest away from other plants. You’ll find your gardening less a chore if you plan for a companionable garden, both in the landscape and the vegetable garden.
Flowers and Their Friends
Roses: Plant garlic among your roses to help repel aphids. Parsley also helps repel pests common to roses. Folklore says to plant banana skins around the base of roses since they are rich in silica and phosphorus, two minerals roses love.
Aster: Most pests will stay away because they don’t like the taste or the smell
Nasturtium: Plant plenty around cabbage, squash, zucchini, radishes, lettuce and fruit trees. Nasturtium helps repel cucumber beetles, aphids and whiteflies. It supposedly gives radishes a good hot taste. It is a good “trap crop”, luring snails and slugs away from other plants.
Carnations: Don’t plant hyacinth before or after, they don’t like each other.
Gladiolus: Keep at least 75 feet away from peas, beans and strawberries.
Marigold: Marigolds help control nematodes and are very beneficial to roses, bulbs, root vegetables and strawberries. They also help protect beans from the Mexican beetle and help reduce whiteflies from attacking with your tomatoes.
Petunia: These perky bloomers help keep away squash, potato and bean beetles.
Sunflower: These tall beauties are a great help in attracting birds and bees to the garden. In turn, the birds and bees help regulate the number of pests in the garden. You can also use sunflower stalks as a climbing pole for climbing plants that don’t mind a bit of shade.
Source
Happy Gardening.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
