Beneficial pest-eating insects play a very valuable role in tour gardens. Every gardener can simply create a garden where a healthy natural population of good bugs is encouraged. Enhancing the numbers of these good bugs is one of the easiest ways to keep pest outbreaks from occurring in the first place. Using companion plants that attract and support beneficial insects is essentially putting out the welcome mat for them. When it comes to companion plants for peppers that enhance biological control, basil is my first choice. Basil is an ideal plant companion that attract pollinators, deter pests, or otherwise help its neighboring plant. Basil is well known to deter aphids, mosquitoes, and thrips.
Basil companion planting with peppers can be an organic way to protect your crops from pests, and help improve pollination of fruit and vegetable crops. Planting peppers with basil has also been reported to improve the flavor of the peppers come harvest.
Plant basil in between and around your pepper plants. Basil excretes volatile chemicals that mask those emitted by pepper plants making it difficult for pests to attack the pepper plants, and provides dense ground cover creating humidity which peppers prefer!
Basil companion planting with peppers can help your plants grow better, taste better, and have less problems with pests. Consider planting basil throughout your garden and enjoy this universal effect.
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There are many other companion plants for peppers that lead to improved plant health and yields, and the list is big...!
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