My favorite plants to deter garden pests are sage, mint, onions, and nasturtiums. All have wonderful edible qualities whether in a salad or a refreshing tea.
My sage plant keeps the cabbage moth away and those pesky flea beetles, many flying insects do not like it smell. What doesn’t get sent away with the sage is turned away by my peppermint which cut down on my ant problem and therefore the aphid problem and keeps the whitefly and mites from my favorite plants.
My onions and garlic repel ants and aphids too but more importantly ticks and fleas even better than my marigolds. And the nasturtiums are the best host attracting all the aphids, flea beetles, and white flies to it leaving my vegetables all alone and giving my ladybugs a wonderful place to live.
Onions repel ants, aphids, flea beetles, mosquitoes; Garlic repels ants, aphids, flea beetles, mosquitoes, ticks, onion flies.
Mints: Catnip controls aphids, earworms, squash bugs, cucumber, Japanese, & flea beetles. Pennyroyal repels ants & fleas. Is generally beneficial to any herb or vegetable garden. Peppermint (& other Mentha sp.) controls ants, aphids, cabbage loopers, cabbage grubs, flies, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, squash bugs, whiteflies, mites.
Nasturtium will attract aphids, flea beetles & black fly to itself & away from desirable plants, like tomatoes. Repels potato beetles, cucumber beetles.
Sage is a wonderful companion crop for many other plants. It will repel cabbage moths & looper, carrot flies, flea beetles, a large number of harmful flying insects, especially those around vines & predators of rosemary.
Contact Diane Flowers, Sol Inspirations, 877-377-9347
