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Fennel is allelopathic to most garden plants, inhibiting growth, causing to bolt, or actually killing many plants. [87] When growing together a higher ratio of fennel to dill provides the highest profit. Dill has a stabilizing effect on the fennel seed. [86] Because it attracts syrphidae it reduces aphids through predation. [65] Flax: Linum ...
This includes the feral multiflora rose, brought to the US [5] both for use as root stock for domesticated roses, and as a "natural fence" for livestock. In the mid 20th century miles of multiflora rose hedge were planted in sequence. Improves environment for nearby plants Borage: Borago officinalis: legumes, brassicas, tomatoes
repel aphids, tomato hornworm, asparagus beetles, leafhoppers, [2] and squash bugs [3] Pitcher plants: traps and ingests insects Radish: repels cabbage maggot and cucumber beetles [3] Rosemary: repels cabbage looper, carrot fly, cockroaches and mosquitoes, [11] slugs, snails, as well as the Mexican bean beetle [3] Russian sage: repels wasps Rue
A leopard slug makes an appearance during plant removal at the Crawford County Fairgrounds.
Here are some tactics to keep slugs at a distance from your vegetable garden and house, according to experts.
The molluscs knocked off the invasive box tree caterpillar to reclaim top of the chart for the first time since 2017.
A trap crop is a plant that attracts agricultural pests, usually insects, away from nearby target crops. This form of companion planting can save a target crop from decimation by pests without the use of artificial pesticides.
Limax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae. Limax cinereoniger. The generic name Limax literally means "slug". Limax dacampi. Some species, such as the leopard slug (L. maximus) and the tawny garden slug (Limacus flavus), are beneficial for the garden. [2]