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Vegetable Companion Plants
There’s nothing more frustrating than finding your chilli plants covered in whitefly or discovering that your cauliflowers have turned into an all you can eat buffet for caterpillars. If you have problems with garden pests, you need companion plants. Companion planting is a natural, organic way to control common garden pests without using harmful insecticides.
Plants that Predators love
Predators are your friends. By planting flowers that are attractive to them, you’ll soon have an army of ladybirds, hoverflies and lacewings feeding on the insects that would otherwise eat your crops. Garden heroes Fennel and Marigolds are perfect for planting with brassicas and salad plants - they also have the added benefit of attracting useful pollinators.
Sacrificial Crops
Sounds sinister, but makes a lot of sense. By planting Nasturtiums or Comfrey alongside peas and beans you’ll draw the caterpillars and aphids away from your precious crops and they’ll eat these instead.
Deterrent Plants
Common garden pests like whitefly and carrot fly hate the smell and taste of plants like Mint, Chives, Alliums, Lavender and Marigolds. Plant them with your peppers, tomatoes and aubergines, and the pests will steer well clear.
Companion Planting tips
To help you give your fruit and vegetable plants the very best defence against garden pests, we’ve put together two handy packs of the best companion plants to cover all bases, with all the companion plants you need to protect your edible crops. To find out more about which plants go together, read our full companion planting guide.
Classic Italian herb bred to grow in Britain
- Especially adapted to grow great in the UK
- Classic Italian herb flavour–essential for pasta
- Perfect herb to grow on the window sill or patio
- Incredibly easy to grow
Classic mint–fresh from your garden
- Cool refreshing flavourperfect for summer drinks
- Fill your garden with the sharp fragrance
- Prolific cropper grown indoors or out
- Fresh mint whenever you need it
Fill your garden with the unmistakable fragrance of fresh Lavender
- Loves a spot in full sun
- Give pots and borders fragrance
- Flowers June to August
- RHS Award of Garden Merit and Plant for Pollinators
An essential herb, fresh all year-round
- Intense, almost mint-like, herby scent and flavour
- A great herb to grow on your window sill
- Ready to harvest all year round indoors!
- A delicious seasoning for chicken, potatoes, and soups
Indigo blue flowers all summer long
- Loves a spot in full sun
- Add a long lasting splash of blue to your borders
- Flowers May to September
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
The original Isle of Wight garlic!
- Reliable softstalk garlic, perfect for the UK climate
- Exceptional flavour and bouquet, keeps for months
- Grow in raised beds, pots or borders
- Harvest from July to August
Snip and sprinkle to dial up the flavour
- Fresh green foliage with lilac purple flowers in summer
- Grow in pots indoors or on a patio or balcony
- Perfect for topping soups, dishes and supergrain salads
- Ridiculously easy to grow
Compact Lavender perfect for pots
- Free flowering deep Indigo blue Lavender
- Flowers from July - September
- Compact variety ideal for pots, windowboxes or edging
- Highly fragrant English Lavender
Help your garden flourish better
- Deter pests such as aphids and white flies
- Attract pollinators like bees and butterflies
- Enhance your soil's overall health
- Improve overall crop yield
Gloriously aromatic green foliage
- Tall, swaying stems of lacy foliage with yellow summer flowers
- Pick leaves when you need them, then use the seeds too
- Great for growing in pots or borders
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
A colourful, fragrant cottage garden herb
- Bright blue star shaped flowers with a light cucumber flavour
- Ideal for garnishes, salads and drinks
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- A self seeding annual which will come back every year
The best lavender for the UK climate
- Plant in full sun or dappled shade
- Give pots and borders fragrance
- Flowers June to August
- RHS Plant for Pollinators
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