You want a gorgeous, no-hassle garden studded with bug-resistant plants that grow in perfect Friendly Flora harmony with each other. mixing compatible plants can help a garden flourish Sound impossible? Actually, with a technique known as “companion planting,” your dream garden can easily become a reality. Simply by pairing plant species that benefit each other, you can enjoy a garden that is naturally pest-free. Companion planting can also help provide the right amount of shade while enriching the soil.
Watch your garden flourish with these simple strategies: Couple tall and short plants. Lofty plants offers shade to low-growing plants and also protect them from the wind. Spinach and peppers make good buddies. Mix herbs and flowers. By combining these two plants, you can invite benecial birds and bugs into your garden that prey on leaf-munching pests. Add pest-repellent plants. Guard your veggie crop with protective flowers. The marigold, for example, contains a compound that is toxic to plant-eating worms called nematodes. Above ground, its scent repels leaf-eaters. Keep bugs in check. Attract pest-eating predators with flowers
that attract beneficial insects and arthropods. Sweet alyssum, for instance, invites hoverflies, which eat aphids. Other flowers and herbs that invite good insects include zinnias, sunflower, lavender, marigolds, parsley, fennel and mint. Enrich your soil. Beans and peas add nitrogen to the soil, an important part of a plant’s diet. Save space. Mingle shallow-rooted plants with deep-rooted neighbors, such as lettuce and carrots. Grow pungent plants. Bugs don’t like strong-smelling plants like onions and garlic and they’ll probably ignore that part of your garden.