A home vegetable garden provides fresh and healthy food for your family.
For thousands of years, gardeners have waged war on the hungry insects that feed on and destroy vegetable crops. One way to combat bugs in the garden is to select plants that deter certain insects near the plants which attract them. This practice is known as companion planting. Does this Spark an idea?
Garlic
Garlic sprouting
Garlic is highly effective in evicting unwanted insects from vegetable gardens. It repels Japanese beetles, aphids, weevils, spider mites and fruit tree borers. Many plants may benefit from proximity to garlic.
Horseradish
Horseradish deters potato bugs. For this reason, it may be planted near potato crops. Horseradish may also benefit asparagus, strawberries and raspberries.
Nasturtiums
Nasturtium in bloom
Nasturtiums are fragrant and edible orange flowers which are often added to salads. Planting nasturtiums near pumpkins or squash guards those plants against aphids, squash bugs and striped pumpkin beetles.
Onions
Onions repel carrot rust flies. They may be planted alongside rows of carrots for this reason.
Parsley and Borage
Borage flowers
The aromatic herb parsley repulses asparagus beetles. Planted near asparagus plants, it provides a fragrant shield of protection. Borage, an herb eaten as a green vegetable in Europe, bulwarks tomatoes from the ravages of tomato hornworms.
Radishes
Radish roots
Radishes protect cucumbers against the deadly and destructive cucumber beetle.
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