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📌Save this for spring! Basil is one of the hardes 📌Save this for spring! Basil is one of the hardest-working bodyguards in my garden, and most people plant it next to their tomatoes because a blog told them to, without ever knowing what it’s actually doing over there. The strong oils you smell when you brush past it are what does the work. A lot of pests find their dinner by scent, and a good patch of basil muddies that signal enough that your tomatoes get harder to find. It won’t make your garden pest-free (nothing will, and anyone promising that is probably selling you something in a spray bottle), but it tips the odds in your favor, and in an organic garden that’s how we play the game. I tuck my basil right at the base of the tomatoes, close enough that the scents overlap, and I add a flower nearby (French Marigolds) to pull in the good bugs that eat whatever still shows up. Every crop in my garden gets at least one herb and one flower working for it. If you’re done fighting your garden every season and ready to build one that actually works with you, comment SYSTEM and I’ll DM you the link. #gardener #growyourownfood #organicgardener #organicgardening #gardeningforbeginners
Planting the second round of garlic and I’m chatti Planting the second round of garlic and I’m chatting why soil nutrition is so important in gardening. Products mentioned in this video: @calusolv @rhino_seed Cow Compost P.S. If you’re done fighting your garden every season and ready to build one that actually works with you — comment SYSTEM and I’ll DM you the link.💚🌱💚 #gardener #growyourownfood #organicgardener #organicgardening #gardeningforbeginners
If there isn’t a single flower in your garden, you If there isn’t a single flower in your garden, you’re asking your vegetables to defend themselves alone and then wondering why the aphids won. Flowers are the security team. Up top, alyssum and calendula are calling in hoverflies, lacewings, ladybugs and tiny parasitic wasps that will happily eat or lay eggs in the pests you’ve been Googling at midnight. Down below, French marigold roots are quietly messing with root-knot nematodes, and the whole root zone is feeding the microbes your soil runs on. Pulling flowers out to squeeze in one more pepper plant is usually how you end up reaching for a spray bottle in July. Every crop I grow gets a flower and an herb chosen for its specific pests, and that’s a big part of why the spray bottle mostly stays on the shelf around here. If you’re done fighting your garden every season and ready to build one that actually works with you, comment SYSTEM and I’ll DM you the link. #gardener #growyourownfood #organicgardener #organicgardening #gardeningforbeginners
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