Does companion planting work? The answer is yes, but maybe not how you think it does. Effective organic gardening techniques often implement many types of companion planting.
Introduction 00:00
1. What not to plant next to each other 00:58
2. Implement polyculture practices 01:38
3. Encourage beneficial insects and pollinators 03:52
4. Use plants as supports for one another 07:33
5. Repel pests using companion planting 08:23
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23 Comments
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I love to plant fast-growing plants that have obligate pests. Meaning the pest only attacks them. Specifically, I grow plants that have caterpillars that only eat them.
Why? Well, I do not treat them with BT or any pesticides, organic or otherwise. Why? Because they act as a food basis for caterpillar predators. Thus I always have a healthy population of wasps/birds/etc, eating these caterpillars and eating the more generalist caterpillars. This means whenever I treat a plant that is badly infested with a pest, I am not killing off my predator population via starvation.
The great thing about plants that are only targeted by specific caterpillars is that you can grow things that attract beautiful butterflies. I grow Dutchman Pipevine, Maypop, and Milkweed. So pretty butterflies are everywhere during spring-fall. Then if I need to, I will use BT on my cabbage/etc, to keep their moth/caterpillar populations down. The wasps just go to town on the other butterflies' caterpillars. I rarely need to use BT, only in extreme situations and at the start of the year.
Fantastic introduction to companion gardening, thank you, definitely will be doing it this year.
What about insect or fly traps? With specific pheromones?
Perovick sunflower are also proven one..
Tithonia is also supposedly a soil improver…but so far i havent found any study
Great trap for aphids is milkweed.
What sort of plants should I plant before my to-be-planted-in- March purple tree collard to deter pests? I’m not sure if they attract cabbage or kale pests? Any ideas? Someone mentioned hyssop officinalis to me. But that’s supposed to be quite smelly & may stink the garden quite a bit?
Also, companion planting sounds complex: for example, hyssop is said to protect purple tree collard from cabbage pests but hyssop prefers dry soil whereas the latter needs moist soil. So, it seems more complicated than you are presenting? Or perhaps to a novice like me. But what can I plant to deter cabbage pests from the collard?
Beautiful flowers 💐
Excellent video!
Hi. I'm new here to your channel and I love all this but what deters the squash bug ? I had that problem & failed miserable. Can you help me with that?
What a well done video!
Great information, thank you!
You are so informative. Love the knowledge I gained and plan to implement into my vegetable garden. Thank you so much.
So glad to bump into this video. Packed with knowledge and guidance. Great work 👍
Really thankful for the information
Great info! I companion plant every year as I plan out my garden. Thanks for the video.
I've watched so many gardening videos on so many channels trying to learn to plant the best garden I can but in 11 minutes you've given more and better information than any of them. Thank you!
What a lot of information! Thanks!
I like how well researched this is.
Polyculture is sprinkling a variety of random seeds and seeing what grows…
Oh, my, gosh! This is brilliant! Did I just discover the brilliant gardening channel?! This makes gardening so much more interesting and beautiful! Are you the mad scientist of the garden? The food engineer? Thank you for a fantastic video. I am so excited to explore the rest!
Are Japanese beetles okay? I saw they were in a pest slide (using zinnia as a trap crop). Everyone in my local gardening group seems to love them says to treat them like other lady bugs.