Companion Planting

I have this year decided to try out companion planting both in the vegetable garden and flower garden. My gardening bibles being Louise Riotte books on companion planting the first book "Carrots Love Tomatoes" and her other book "Roses Love Garlic" I would recommend both these books even though the author is american the contents of the book are very interesting and worth trying out. So both my kitchen garden and flower garden including containers have a mixture of herbs, flowers and vegetable plants that compliment each other whilst also being a natural method of controlling and deterring pests that are inclined to attack certain species of plants. For instance planting cabbages with onions will deter the white cabbage butterfly from laying their eggs on the leaves..therefore ensuring that the larvae does not eat away the cabbage plants. I have also planted the herb Thyme near the cabbages also this too helps to deter the cabbage butterfly from laying eggs on the plants. Other plants such as Runner beans I have planted nasturiums and Morning Glory amongst the runner beans, this helps to deter black fly attacking the beans. All in all I would recommend anyone to try and purchase the two books I have mentioned and give companion planting a go...After all you have nothing to lose but perhaps lots to gain for all your hard earned efforts by producing crops and flowers that are enhanced via a natural method that also look pretty in the garden.