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pest management

Avoid plant stress by doing the following:
  • building healthy soil
  • ensuring good drainage
  • don’t plant too close together
  • avoid monoculture
  • interplant (leeks, purple sprouting broccoli)
  • Use alliums to disguise scent / confuse pests
  • Marigolds deter whiteflies
    TIP: Weevils? Try using rhubarb leaves around the base of a plant!
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To prevent pests is to attract beneficials! Try planting insectary plants like:
  • Apiaceae (or umbelliferae, or carrot family); plants in the carrot family include:
    • Parsley
    • Angelica
    • Queen Anne’s lace
    • Lovage
    • Anise
    • Parsnip
  • Yarrow harvest flowers / yarrow tea 
  • Comfrey grown under fruit trees accumulates nutrients—cut down & mulch! This attracts beneficial assassin bugs, ladybugs, lacewings, syrphid flies, and tachinid flies
  • ​Nasturtium
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  • Home
  • About
    • garden mandate
    • History of the Garden
    • current board
    • Staff
    • Annual Reports
    • Contact
    • Location
    • FAQ
  • Get Involved
    • work parties
    • Volunteering
    • board meetings & faq
    • Renting a plot
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Projects and Partnerships
  • Events
    • Events Calendar
  • Photos
    • 2025
    • 2024
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • Spring Social 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • Spring Social 2016
  • Resources
    • Video Tutorials
    • Food Security and Sovereignty
    • Composting
    • Seed Saving
    • Native Plants
    • Online Resources
    • Pests
    • Soil Building
    • When to Plant
    • Weeds
  • sundew
    • submission guidelines
    • issues
  • Blog
  • CCG Mixtape
  • CCG Merch