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    Natural Pest Repellents


    By Kimberly Teed

     It's time to start planning your garden -- in your plans, include a few plants that naturally repel your peskiest pests ... Some common landscape pests and the plants that will serve as natural repellents:

    ants ... mint, tansy, pennyroyal

    aphids ... mint, garlic, chives, coriander, anise

    bean leaf beetle ... potato, onion, turnip

    codling moth ... common oleander

    Colorado potato bug ... green beans, coriander, nasturtium

    cucumber beetle ... radish, tansy

    flea beetle ... garlic, onion, mint

    cabbage worm ... mint, sage, rosemary, hyssop

    Japanese beetle ... garlic, larkspur, tansy, rue, geranium

    leaf hopper ... geranium, petunia

    Mexican bean beetle ... potato, onion, garlic, radish, petunia

    mice ... onion

    root knot nematodes ... French marigold

    slugs ... prostrate rosemary, wormwood

    spider mites ... onion, garlic, cloves, chives

    squash bug ... radish, marigolds, tansy, nasturtium

    stink bug ... radish

    thrips .. marigolds

    tomato hornworm ... marigolds, sage, borage

    whitefly ... marigolds, nasturtium

    I've always planted marigolds around the entire perimeter of my vegetable gardens ... keeps the bunnies from becoming pesky pests ;)

    About the author:

     Kimberly Teed is the editor of PS.update, a weekly e-newsletter from PresenceSense.com http://www.presencesense.com Dedicated to Simple Living, Home, Self, Culture. Subscribe with a blank e-mail: psupdate-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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