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CONTROL INSECTS WITH COMPANION PLANTING

• Basil – controls flies and mosquitoes

• Borage – controls tomato worm

• Castor Bean – controls mole and plant lice

• Catnip – controls flea beetles

•Datura – controls Japanese beetles

• Dead Nettle –controls potato bugs

• Flax – controls potato bugs

• Garlic – controls Japanese beetle, aphids, weevils, fruit tree borers, spider mites

• Henbit – general insect repellent

• Horseradish - controls potato bugs

• Hyssop – controls cabbage moths

• Lavender – controls clothes moths (dry and place in garments)

• Legumes (planted in a rotation) - controls white fungus and corn rootworm grain crops and grasses

• Marigolds – controls Mexican bean beetles, nematodes and many other insects

• Mint – controls white cabbage moths

• Dried Mint - controls clothes moths

• Mole Plant – controls moles and mice (Mole plant is a species of Euphorbia)

• Nasturtium – controls aphids, squash bugs, striped pumpkin beetles, wooly aphids

• Pennyroyal – controls ants and plant lice

• Peppermint – controls white cabbage butterflies, ants

• Petunia – controls beetles

• Pot Marigold – controls asparagus beetles, tomato worms and many other insects

• Pyrethrum – controls pickleworms, aphids, leafhoppers, spider mites, harlequin bugs, imported cabbage worms and ticks

• Rose Geranium (oil or crushed leaves) - general insect repellant

• Rosemary – controls cabbage moths, bean beetles, carrot flies, malaria mosquitoes

• Rue – controls Japanese beetles

• Sage – controls cabbage moths, carrot flies, ticks

• Santolina – controls moths

• Sassafras – controls plant lice

• Southernwood – controls cabbage moths, malaria mosquitoes

• soybeans (grown to shade the bases of the plants) - controls Cinch bugs and flea beetles.

• Spearmint – controls ants, aphids

• Summer Savory – controls bean beetles

• Tansy – controls flying insects, Japanese beetles, striped cucumber beetles, squash bugs and ants

• Thyme – controls cabbage worms

• White Geranium – controls Japanese beetles

• Wormword – controls animal intruders, cabbage worm butterflies, black flea beetles, malaria mosquitoes