What flowers can enhance protection from pests: not only marigolds and calendula
Experienced gardeners know: flowers are good not only for decorating the plot.
According to the expert of the online publication "Belnovosti", scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , some plants are able to come to the rescue in the fight against insect pests.
So, if you are afraid that mice and shrews will encroach on the sacred, namely the delicate bulbs of tulips and other spring flowers, plant imperial fritillary in the flowerbed together with bulbous ones.
Rodents dislike its smell so much that they will avoid the flower bed.
If you have to fight whiteflies, enlist the help of nasturtium. The aroma of this flower will also scare away the white butterfly.
And if you add nasturtium tops to the soil, you can be sure that there will be no trace left of the pathogens that cause late blight.
Finally, it is impossible not to mention that pyrethrin contained in the shoots, leaves and inflorescences of multi-colored daisies can have a paralyzing effect on aphids, codling moths, flies and ants.
Use pyrethrum infusion for spraying, and dust young seedlings with dried and crushed grass and scatter it between the beds.
