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[Basil] Chives [Ocimum basilicum] Allium schoenoprasum
Grown around susceptible plants like roses will help to keep away some problem insects like aphids, borers and spider mites. Plant chives around the base of fruit trees to repel climbing insects and under apple and pear trees to prevent apple scab, black spot and curly leaf.
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.