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California Garden TV: Best Companion Planting Flowers for the Vegetable Garden



In this video I will share the best cool season and warm season flowers for companion planting in the vegetable garden. Companion planting flowers are beautiful and perform a valuable tole in attracting predators who will help take care of pest control in an organic vegetable garden.

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23 Comments

  10. Phil87

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  13. Tani Kirtz

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  14. ANETTE RIDLEY RODRIGUEZ

    I need to plant more basil!! I have followed your book and my garden is full of all the insects you mentioned. There's a nice ecosystem going thanks to your book! I really enjoy watching the insects in the garden. I've never celebrated the death of an insect like when I saw a wasp capture a cabbage looper 😅

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  17. John Lord

    Most people have this consistent corn row – vegetable row mentality. Neat and clean consistent homogenous veg species. Then plant companions in a row as well – and bugs, ants, slugs, snails, caterpillars, moths still chew on their vegs ! Break up the rows mindset!

    Even with square foot planting – there is a smaller row or diagonal row of concentrated plants in a region. Plant the companions intermixed with the vegs. Not in rows but the same as a checkerboard. Black for vegs, red for companions. Don't make rows for walking between, but plant checkerboards of vegs and companions that you can walk AROUND, reach in, and harvest. This method truly covers over the veg smell that is the bug attractant. Hiding the veg under other brilliant flowers (nasturtiums, marigold, chives, garlic, onion) – still has pollenation for bees, flies, and butterflies.

    And stop doing the open landscape planting of vegs with massive cleared space around them. This just gives a total appearance as a single in-the-open bug magnet – same as veg rows. Its just a bigger target for a bug search. Plant intermixed vegs, herbs, and companions – and you will see the reduction of problem children in your veg, herb, and flower beds.

    The real garden problem children bugs are aphids that draw ants, fly larvae in the soil eating the roots, fly maggots, harmful nematodes (vs beneficial nematodes), cabbage moth, cabbage soil maggot, squash bugs, stink bugs, caterpillars, cutworms, colorado potato beetle, japanese june beetles, mexican bean beeetle, flea beetle, tarnished plant beetle, whitefly, scales. Bugs eat the leaves and the roots/stems – while the flowers appear to be left alone (hmm !!!). Keep your soil clean – and cooked and sterilized compost and manure/manure tea – proper irrigation (not too much => molds, mildews, fungus, not too little dying plants that cause bug infections eating them), and having beneficial insects (ladybugs – larvae and beetles, praying mantis, beneficial insects, dusting one's plants, neem oil spray, soap sprays, diluted pepper/chili oil spray, … and you won't have problem children bugs.

    Keep ants, ant hills, and underground ant complexes out of the garden – and they won't be a problem. You wonder why you have spiders and dandy longlegs running through your garden – there is small food bugs, and flies, gnats, midges crawling around that need to be eaten. Remove the bugs – no more spiders.

  20. Teri Jennings

    I started late this year so my flowers are not blooming yet, hope they help when they start blooming. Will definately start sweet allysum early in the green house.

  21. stephanie hansen

    I have your book and have learned a lot from it. I do have a question regarding flowers and a companion plant. I have something that is eating all the leaves off my columbine plants. Not touching the stems of the flowers, but the leaves. I've already had to cut down 2 and am watching my columbine get eating. Do you know what I can plant with them to deter this demolition?

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