Erich Ritter
1. If your beans are struggling with Mexican Bean Larvae, try mixing in some marigold plants in your rows. Marigolds can help with a number of pests including cabbage worms and aphids. Sprinkle them throughout your garden!
2. Interplant celery with your cauliflower to help repel the white cabbage butterfly.
3. Planting cucumber with your corn is mutually beneficial. The cucumber plants will help keep the racoons off of your corn, while the corn will help reduce wilt in your cucumbers.
4. Plant radishes in your cucumber hills- just a couple- and leave them there all season. This will help protect your cucumbers against cucumber beetles. This also works with squash and melons that are attacked by the striped cucumber beetle.
5. Growing beans among your eggplant will help repel the Colorado potato beetle.
6. Mix parsley into your carrot rows to help repel the carrot fly.
7. Grow nasturtiums with your squash to help keep that dreaded squash bug away.
8. Put tomato plants in your asparagus bed after the early spears have be harvested to keep the asparagus beetles away. Plant the tomatoes on the side of the bed, leaving the asparagus intact- don’t cut it!
9. Garlic planted with your tomatoes can help with red spider mites.
10. Grow your basil alongside your tomato rows for insect control as well as flavor enhancement.
11. Oregano can be planted with broccoli to help repel the cabbage butterfly.
12. Sage is also helpful to all brassicas by protecting them from the white cabbage butterfly. It is also helpful to carrots since it protects them from the carrot fly.
13. Thyme deters the cabbage worm, so it is good placed in your rows of cabbage, broccoli, kale, and other brassicas.
14. Wormwood is a repellent for a number of pests such as moths, flea beetles and cabbage moth butterfly. But it is best as a border plant since most plants do not like growing near it. On another note, wormwood is also great for natural pest control in your livestock. We feed it to our non-pregnant goats and our chickens for a natural way to fight intestinal worms.
15. Alternate rows of bush beans and rows of potatoes for a mutual relationship. Potatoes protect the beans from the Mexican bean beetles while the beans help keep away the Colorado potato beetle.
16. Add calendula to your tomatoes and asparagus (see #8) to deter tomato hornworm and asparagus beetles.
2. Interplant celery with your cauliflower to help repel the white cabbage butterfly.
3. Planting cucumber with your corn is mutually beneficial. The cucumber plants will help keep the racoons off of your corn, while the corn will help reduce wilt in your cucumbers.
4. Plant radishes in your cucumber hills- just a couple- and leave them there all season. This will help protect your cucumbers against cucumber beetles. This also works with squash and melons that are attacked by the striped cucumber beetle.
5. Growing beans among your eggplant will help repel the Colorado potato beetle.
6. Mix parsley into your carrot rows to help repel the carrot fly.
7. Grow nasturtiums with your squash to help keep that dreaded squash bug away.
8. Put tomato plants in your asparagus bed after the early spears have be harvested to keep the asparagus beetles away. Plant the tomatoes on the side of the bed, leaving the asparagus intact- don’t cut it!
9. Garlic planted with your tomatoes can help with red spider mites.
10. Grow your basil alongside your tomato rows for insect control as well as flavor enhancement.
11. Oregano can be planted with broccoli to help repel the cabbage butterfly.
12. Sage is also helpful to all brassicas by protecting them from the white cabbage butterfly. It is also helpful to carrots since it protects them from the carrot fly.
13. Thyme deters the cabbage worm, so it is good placed in your rows of cabbage, broccoli, kale, and other brassicas.
14. Wormwood is a repellent for a number of pests such as moths, flea beetles and cabbage moth butterfly. But it is best as a border plant since most plants do not like growing near it. On another note, wormwood is also great for natural pest control in your livestock. We feed it to our non-pregnant goats and our chickens for a natural way to fight intestinal worms.
15. Alternate rows of bush beans and rows of potatoes for a mutual relationship. Potatoes protect the beans from the Mexican bean beetles while the beans help keep away the Colorado potato beetle.
16. Add calendula to your tomatoes and asparagus (see #8) to deter tomato hornworm and asparagus beetles.
