One of my best loved gardening books is Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte. This book talks about what plants compliment each other in the garden and provides many natural ideas to control pests in the garden. One plant family that takes a honorary seat in this role is the onion family. These include onions, shallots, leeks, chives and garlic. Because of their aromatic smells they repel many common insects. One thing that she recommends is planting these vegetables throughout the garden to reap their benefits.
I started following this advice last year and was surprised by the results. Onions really do seem to help repel the insects. My garden seemed to have less pests where the onions were interplanted among the other vegetables. One word of caution though is that the pea and bean families do not seem to like the onion family. Carrots seem to do especially well with onions as they help repel the carrot fly.
This is just one of the many suggestions she makes in her book. It is a book worth buying and is reasonably priced. I refer to it each year while I am planting my garden. If you would like to take a peak at it, most libraries carry this book on their shelves. Take a moment and look up this book, it has been well worth the price for me.
I started following this advice last year and was surprised by the results. Onions really do seem to help repel the insects. My garden seemed to have less pests where the onions were interplanted among the other vegetables. One word of caution though is that the pea and bean families do not seem to like the onion family. Carrots seem to do especially well with onions as they help repel the carrot fly.
This is just one of the many suggestions she makes in her book. It is a book worth buying and is reasonably priced. I refer to it each year while I am planting my garden. If you would like to take a peak at it, most libraries carry this book on their shelves. Take a moment and look up this book, it has been well worth the price for me.
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