Planting Herbs To Repel Garden Pests
You don’t have to use chemical sprays and dusts to keep the pests out of your garden. Here are some companion herbs you can plant with your vegetables to help repel pests naturally:
- Catnip~ Repels Japanese beetles, squash bugs, aphids, and ants (sorry, not responsible for what it does to your cats)
- Borage~ Repels many worms including tomato horn worms and cabbage worms, so get some borage cozy with your tomatoes
- Pennyroyal~ Deters fleas (don’t use on cats it can be toxic if they lick their fur)
- Cilantro~ Aphids and spider mites
- Basil~ Repels flies and mosquitoes
- Lavender~ Repels fleas
- Oregano~ Cucumber beetles and aphids
So instead of grabbing the bottle grab a handful of herbs, better yet plant plenty of these herbs next to the plants that are susceptible to these pests and keep them away naturally.
Image via sxc.hu