Using pots, you can even take the perennial plants indoors in winter. Can companion planting work in our organic gardens to repel pests and diseases and grow more vegetables without chemicals.

So how do you know if a specific companion plant or method of companion planting will work in your garden. It depends upon our individual soil, light, weather and many other factors. Simply, grow the companion plants in pots. Then you can move the pots around your beds to test if a particular plant deters flying pests or not and, if so, how many plants you need. A tip that may work for one thorstein like growing aromatic plants around cabbages to repel flying pests may work in one garden. Aromatic herbs work well as companion plants in pots This method works well with aromatic herbs like borage, which in some gardens have been known to keep cabbage white butterflies off brassica.

But other growers might find they have to sow those companion plants so thickly around the cabbages to deter pests that they depress the growth of the cabbages.