Here are some herbs for you to consider in your garden as pest repellants along with the pests they are reported to repel:
Pest |
Repellent Herbs |
| Ants | Tansy, wormwood |
| Aphids | Chives, cilantro, fennel, peppermint, spearment |
| Cabbage Loopers | Anise hyssop, chives, nasturtiums, pennyroyal, sage, thyme |
| Carrot Rust Flies | Chives, rosemary, sage, wormwood |
| Codling Moths | Wormwood |
| Colorado Potato Beetles | Catnip, cilantro, nasturtiums, tansy |
| Cucumber Beetles | Catnip, nasturtiums, rue |
| Flea Beetles | Rue, tansy, wormwood |
| Imported Cabbag Moths | anise hyssop, chives, dill, nasturtiums, pennyroyal, sage southernwood, wormwood |
| Japanese Beetles | Ctnip, chives, garlic, tansy |
| Mexican Bean Beetles | Rosemary, summer and winter savory |
| Slugs and Snails | Fennel, garlic, rosemary |
| Spider Mites | Cilantro |
| Squash Bugs | Catnip, nasturtiums, tansy |
| Tomato Hornworms | Borage, dill, opal basil |
| Whiteflies | Nasturtiums, thyme, wormwood |
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