You grow marigolds, for example, intercropped with brassicas and it will keep both nematodes in the soil and aphids from destroying your crops.
Aphids show up during dry spells and they multiply into mass numbers overnight, they target flowers and new leaves over old leaves, which means they destroy cauliflower and broccoli more readily as these are young flower heads; and they suck juices out of the plant like vampires until its all wrinkly and dessicated and dead. And just killing them isn't enough, you leave their mushy slimey dead bodies over your crop. Once you get them, basically that plant is toast.
They say "spray them off" yea but that doesn't fix the problem. The problem is it's dry, the plant is dry, and the plant has a comrpomised immune system.
Also, its why they call brassicas (cabbage, brussels, broccoli, kale, etc) a 'cole' drop, cole as in cole slaw but also cole as in "COLD" they like spring winter fall but not summer, and have to be protected in summer
Marigolds also protect onions from black aphids versus the gray/white ones of brassicas. Nasturtium is a trap plant for them; and chamomile also is another flower that can protect from aphids as it draws hoverflies, which look like yellow jackets but they make incredible amounts of noise and stay completely static in one place, hence hover. They are actually very curious about people, and they will just hang out with you. Never hurt a hoverfly, or try, they're as fast as a dragonfly so good luck
source i am a subsistence farmer and master grower and try not to use weird ass digusting plasto-chemicals on food I'm going to eat later in the month
Thank you so much for the information. I am only trying to grow some herbs and I kept having problems. I like basil and mints. Mints are fine but my basil just don't work here in the south. Not sure why.
You grow marigolds, for example, intercropped with brassicas and it will keep both nematodes in the soil and aphids from destroying your crops.
Aphids show up during dry spells and they multiply into mass numbers overnight, they target flowers and new leaves over old leaves, which means they destroy cauliflower and broccoli more readily as these are young flower heads; and they suck juices out of the plant like vampires until its all wrinkly and dessicated and dead. And just killing them isn't enough, you leave their mushy slimey dead bodies over your crop. Once you get them, basically that plant is toast.
They say "spray them off" yea but that doesn't fix the problem. The problem is it's dry, the plant is dry, and the plant has a comrpomised immune system.
Also, its why they call brassicas (cabbage, brussels, broccoli, kale, etc) a 'cole' drop, cole as in cole slaw but also cole as in "COLD" they like spring winter fall but not summer, and have to be protected in summer
Marigolds also protect onions from black aphids versus the gray/white ones of brassicas. Nasturtium is a trap plant for them; and chamomile also is another flower that can protect from aphids as it draws hoverflies, which look like yellow jackets but they make incredible amounts of noise and stay completely static in one place, hence hover. They are actually very curious about people, and they will just hang out with you. Never hurt a hoverfly, or try, they're as fast as a dragonfly so good luck
source i am a subsistence farmer and master grower and try not to use weird ass digusting plasto-chemicals on food I'm going to eat later in the month
Thank you so much for the information. I am only trying to grow some herbs and I kept having problems. I like basil and mints. Mints are fine but my basil just don't work here in the south. Not sure why.