pests How to attract beneficial bugs

[patrick]

Found this while doing the Google thing. http://www.google.co...4,d.b2I&cad=rja

Good info on the types of plants to grow that attract predatory bugs, the good guys. There are several plants that will attract multiple types of bugs.

I believe I'll be planting a few of these this year.

 

[Jamison]

Good link! Lots of good stuff to grow, especially like the coriander!

 

[JoynersHotPeppers]

My entire landscape is built around attracting the right bugs. Not only do I get amazing flowers and herbs but the peppers and vegetables also benefit!

 

[roper2008]

Let the herbs flower. They love herb flowers. I have a perennial fennel that comes up every year. Here it is
in the flower stage. The leaves get more sparse when the plant concentrates on the flowering process. Below
is a orange wasp that eats caterpillars. It is a beneficial. The other small bug I don't know what it is. Another good
plant is mountain mint.

 

[patrick]

Way to go guys!

I'd love to let the dandelions run free this year but I think the neighbors would come after me. I already get a few strange looks because of the pepper plants filling up my driveway and most of the locals are aware of my other hobby.

Think I'm going to try fennel, coriander and dill. Two or three of each interspersed in with the peppers.

 

[Chile Face]

i always heard flowers

 

[ms1476]

I've had friends who were very adamant about planting basil in their pepper gardens. They say it attracts beneficial insects. I think I just get plain lucky, last year I had praying mantii living in my plants. They were pregnant, so hopefully I will see more of them this season. Good luck.

 

[thismembername]

if i'm not mistaken, depending on what your trying to do, more bee's = more pollination = more chance for cross pollination. Not good if your saving seeds.