The gardener has to deal with certain insects that are harmful to flowering and harvesting. Know that there are plants with repellent power. Whether their flowers or their roots, these repellent plants secrete substances or odors that stop or paralyze these pests.
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Against the use of treatment products and to promote the biodiversityuse auxiliary plants to fight naturally against the insects like the aphids, ants, nematodes and others. Here are some plants that will repel insects in your garden.
The scented geranium
Its small flowers of color rose and its foliage secrete a persistent smell of lemon, feared by mosquitoes and the flies. Flower your terrace or your balcony to take advantage of its abundant flowering and its lemon scent, while chasing away these undesirables.
marigold
Stars of the vegetable garden all summer, themarigold emanates a strong odor that scares away whiteflies and aphids rows of vegetables; its roots secrete a chemical substance which paralyzes the nematodes of tomatoes. Plant marigolds in the garden as a natural repellent. Yellow or orange, mix the colors!
Concern
With its bright and graphic yellow or orange flowers, marigolds bloom in pots, beds and the vegetable patch. They distill a substance into the roots that repels nematodes (microscopic worms) and other worms. The smell of flowers repels whiteflies (white flies) and the beetles.
Nasturtium
That beautiful annual climber with trumpet-shaped flowers has the power to attract aphids, so sow it near vegetables or shrubs sensitive to their presence. It also has the advantage of repelling bedbugs. Let her crawl or have her climb on a support.
Lavender
This beautiful plant with its well-known scent keeps ants and aphids away. You can also make a homemade manure spray on invaded plants. Grow a few feet of lavender near your outdoor table or around a swimming pool to limit their presence, wasps and mosquitoes don’t like its strong smell. Make bouquets of lavender to be placed in the different rooms of the house in order to take advantage of its intoxicating scents and produce a natural insect repellent.
tansy
This medicinal plant has been used since time immemorial to hunt aphids and ants. In the vegetable garden, tansy manure is used to fight against worms leek, seedcorn maggots and shoot-eating slugs. Planted in a bed, its scent repels mosquitoes.
Absinthe
Cultivated in the vegetable patch or in a gardenaromaticuse manure wormwood to repel ants, caterpillars, aphids and ringworm leeks. Do not hesitate to plant a few feet under the roses, very often attacked by aphids. In this case, wormwood becomes a real repellent.
The Basilic
Cultivated for consumption, the leaves of basil give off a scent so powerful that it scares away flies and mosquitoes. Do not hesitate to plant them in planters placed on the window sills to limit their presence.
lemon-scented plants
The lemongrassthe basil lemon, lemon thyme, lemon balm where the geranium lemon-scented are all plants to grow near windows and places of conviviality because the lemony smell is not appreciated by mosquitoes.
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