Companion Planting for a Healthy Organic Garden

You may be asking, what is Companion Planting? We intend to explain it and give you some great tips and resources to help you have a healthy organic garden.

Summer time and gardening go hand in hand.If you love it like I do it becomes a formof meditation, and special way to stay in touch with nature. I love to watch the dragonflies and butterflies that come to the colorful plants and flowers. I read a lot of books, and search for things I can use to resolve pest problems in the garden. Did you know that ants can be repelled by Penny Royal or Spearmint? For indoor ant problems try some cucumber slices.

I also read that it's really important to use organic matter, like plant matter or animal manure, in your garden beds. It releases gradually in the soil feeding your plants the nutrients necessary for growth. It also helps the water holding capacity of the soil, improves aeration and reduces crusting. Another thing I discovered is that planting castor beans and foxglove will repel deer. My grandma had that problem as well do many folks.

I learned that some great insecticidal flowers to plant for companion planting are asters, chrysanthemums, cosmos, coreopsis, nasturtiums, and French and African marigolds. I have beautiful roses, and it痴 partly due to dried banana peels and garlic. Yes, Roses Love Garlic and that's the name of this really informative, must have guide book about companion planting and other secrets of flowers. I couldn稚 believe how this little paperback could have so much information in it. I use it for so many things. I learned which plants get the same kind of pests and shouldn稚 be planted together. I also discovered the many uses of different flowers and plants, one of them being how to make natural dyes from different parts of the plants. This is an amazing and resourceful book I recommend it for anyone that wants to learn more about companion planting and need to have it at their finger tips.

All this talk about gardening makes me want to go walk through the flowers and watch the butterflies play on this Peaceful Organic Planet.

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