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