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[Basil] Garlic [Ocimum basilicum] Allium sativum
Spray will kill aphids, bean fly, stink and horned bugs, crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, red spider mites, sawfly larvae, scale, snails, thrips and wireworms. Also deadly for caterpillars – particularly cabbage moth and butterfly caterpillar) Used to prevent blight in potatoes Important companion plant- repels both airborne and soilborne pests Garlic plants deter leaf-eating beetles, spider mites and fruit flies, and the smell of garlic confuses carrot fly and white cabbage moths. Grown carrots and brassicas in rows interspersed with garlic, onions and chives. Planted around the base of peach & nectarine trees will lessen curly leaf infection and stops rabbits chewing bark. Planted among raspberries protects them from grubs Garlic bulbs dropped in termite mounds causes termites to move out and dried cloves of garlic keep weevils out of food. Feed garlic to pets to repel fleas Eat lots of garlic to stop mozzies biting
Insect Repelling Plants | Herbology
In pots and window boxes against Flies Companion for cabbage, tomato and beans –downy mildew. Basil oil on skin against mozzies Made into spray – aphids, woolly aphids, flies, fruit flies, leaf miners, mozzies, scale, spider mites, thrips, whitefly. Also caterpillars, earwigs, millipedes, pear and cherry slug, pumpkin and other beetles, slaters, spiders and weevils.