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Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 30/03/2007 - 12:57.
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Herbs aren’t a cure-all but can have a beneficial effect in the vegetable garden by deterring pests, attracting beneficial insects or enhancing growth or flavour of vegetables. Herbs can be planted around the edges of the vegetable beds or throughout the garden between the vegetables. Some herbs can be invasive; these ones are best planted in pots which can then be moved around the vegetable garden to where they are best needed.
Below is a list of herbs and their use in the vegetable garden. The list is not complete but is a useful guide.
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Herb
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Deters
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Use
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Basil
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Flies, fruit fly, mosquitoes
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Tomatoes
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Borage
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Attracts bees, deters tomato worm
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Promotes heavier crop in strawberries and other crops, adds trace elements to the soil
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Calendula
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Nematodes, white fly
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Attracts bees
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Chamomile
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Flies, mosquitoes
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Good throughout garden, improves crop size in onions
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Chives
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Nematodes and soil pests, aphis
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Fruit trees
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Comfrey
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Use leaves as a plant food, in liquid manure/compost teas, in compost heaps
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Dill
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Repels cabbage moth
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Attracts bees & useful insects
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Fennel
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Fleas, mosquitoes
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Attracts bees. Most plants don’t like, esp tomatoes, beans
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French Marigold –Tagetes sp
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Nematodes and soil pests, aphis
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Most vegies
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Garlic
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Nematodes and soil pests, most insects, blight
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Fruit trees
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Geranium
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Deters most insects
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Horseradish
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Deters Potato bug
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Hyssop
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Use as lure for cabbage moth
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Lavender
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Moths, repels most insects
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Attracts bees
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Lemon balm
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Good around all vegies
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Mint
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Cabbage Moth, ants, aphis, fleas, flies, mosquitoes
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Nasturtium
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Repels aphis, ants
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Attracts bees, promotes a healthy garden, Most vegetables like
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Parsley
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Tomatoes, asparagus, chives. Dislikes mint
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Pennyroyal
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Fleas, mosquitoes
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Rub on skin to stop mozzies biting
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Pyrethrum
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Natural insecticide – harmless to animals
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Rosemary
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Flies, mosquitoes, repels carrot root fly, bean beetle
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Carrots
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Rue
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Flies
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Most plants dislike, plant away from the vegetable garden
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Sage
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Cabbage moth, carrot fly
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Santolina
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Insect repellent
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Southernwood
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Repels insects
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Tansy
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Flies, insect repellent, ants, squash bugs, cucumber beetle
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Good companion plant
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Thyme
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House flies, root flies, cabbage worm
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Attracts bees
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Wormwood
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Said to repel snakes, most flying insects
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Yarrow
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Compost activator
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Good companion plant
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