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Plants that Repel Insects

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Date: 04/20/2006 Topic: Gardening > Pest Control  
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Here are a list of plants and what insects they repel. This was sent in by Gill, a long time reader.

INSECT PEST REPELLING PLANT
Ants pennyroyal, spearmint, southernwood, tansy
Aphids garlic, chives and other alliums, coriander, anise, nasturtium and petunia around fruit trees
Borer garlic, onion, tansy
Cabbage moth mint, hyssop, rosemary, southernwood, thyme, sage, wormwood, celery, catnip, nasturtium
Colorado potato beetle green beans, horseradish, dead nettle, flax, catnip, coriander, tansy, nasturtium
Cucumber beetle tansy, radish
Cutworm tansy
Flea beetle wormwood, mint, catnip, interplant cole crops with tomato
Japanese beetle garlic, larkspur, tansy, rue, white geranium
Leafhopper petunia, geranium
Mexican bean beetle marigold, potato, rosemary, savory, petunia
Mites onion, garlic, chives
Nematodes marigold, salvia, dahlia, calendula, asparagus
Rose chafer geranium, petunia, onion
Slug prostrate rosemary, wormwood
Squash bug tansy, nasturtium, catnip
Tomato hornworm borage, marigold, opal basal
Whitefly nasturtium, marigold

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By (Guest Post)
This is great, I have been looking for a natural way to keep the garden. Thank You!

Posted on 05/30/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By cen cal (Guest Post)
That's the point, they are a sacrificial plant.

Posted on 05/28/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By K (Guest Post)
In my experience in So Cal, rather than repelling aphids nasturiums are the first plant (other than impatiens) to be taken over by the aphids.

Posted on 05/28/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

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