Keep an Organic Garden With These Pest-Repellent, Soil-Improving Plants

Before you turn to harsh chemicals to solve your garden woes, consider planting these flowers and herbs. They make great bedfellows that'll improve your soil, increase propagation, and keep harmful insects at bay. Here are our top 3 clever companions for your garden. --JENNIFER STIMPSON

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Scented Marigold

Plant with:
Everything!

Get these benefits:
In dense clusters, this flower emits a substance that drives away harmful root-feeding nematodes. Near tomatoes, it can deter whiteflies.

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Mint

Plant with:
Tomatoes and cabbage.

Get these benefits:
This quick-growing herb deters ants, fleas, aphids, cabbage moths, even rodents-plus it attracts earthworms, which help condition soil.


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Lavender

Plant with:
Roses, alliums, and fruit trees.

Get these benefits:
Discourage fleas and moths while drawing beneficial insects, such as bees, ladybugs, and praying mantises.

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