Basil is easy to grow in herb and vegetable gardens with its fragrant leaves that add flavor to a lot of dishes. Basil and peppers companion planting can be an organic way to protect your crops from pests, and help improve pollination of fruit and vegetable crops. Basil as a companion also helps attract pollinators, keeps pests like thrips, flies, aphids, spider mites, and mosquitoes away, basil can also help enhance the flavor of both sweet and hot peppers. Consider planting basil throughout the garden and enjoy this universal effect.