The Complete Guide to Companion Planting: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Garden Successful (Back-To-Basics Gardening) by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-15T04:17:00+00:00

Horehound is a good companion to tomatoes and peppers, improving their quality, increasing their yield, and helping them fertilize and grow fruit better. The plant blooms from early summer to fall. Like many other mint plants, the tiny flowers attract braconid and icheumonid wasps, tachnid and syrid flies, as well as many other insects. Grasshoppers and other insects do not like the taste of horehound.

Hyssop (Hyssopus of cinalis)

Hyssop is a tall flowering herb that can grow up to 2 feet in height. The plant has narrow long leaves and branched stems that are covered in tiny hairs at the tip. The plant produces blue flowers at the ends of the branches. The leaves have a mint flavor and can be added to soups and salads. You can start hyssop by seed, although you might find a young plant in a garden center. Plant the seeds 1/2 to 1/4 inch deep, 1 foot apart, in a sunny location. It can tolerate a shady location. In colder temperatures, hyssop is considered an annual but in warmer climates it is considered a perennial. Hyssop is a great plant for a container, but requires a pot at least 10 inches deep due to its large root system. The plant will deteriorate with time and should be replaced every five years.

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