In this video, I share 5 of the most beneficial flowers to plant for vegetable gardens! These 5 flowers not only attract bees to your yard for pollination, but also help repel insect pests when planted strategically. Plant these 5 flowers now to attract pollinators and repel pests from your garden and yard!
When planted strategically, these beneficial flower species can have enormous benefits for your vegetable garden and fruit trees. However, these flowers are not magic – you must plant flowers correctly to reap the benefits. This may include interplanting flowers with vegetables, planting flowers as borders and barriers, or planting flowers as trap crops to lure insect pests away from your vulnerable plants. What you do will depend on the insects you want to control and the species of flower. I break it all down for you in this video.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Beneficial Flowers For Vegetable Gardens
1:51 Flower #1: Sunflowers
5:04 Flower #2: Pyrethrum Daisy
6:31 Flower #3: Sweet Alyssum
7:20 Flower #4: Nasturtiums
8:43 Flower #5: Borage
9:22 4 Tips For Maximum Results
12:39 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to plant flowers to repel insects while attracting bees and pollinators, want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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0:00 Beneficial Flowers For Vegetable Gardens
1:51 Flower #1: Sunflowers
5:04 Flower #2: Pyrethrum Daisy
6:31 Flower #3: Sweet Alyssum
7:20 Flower #4: Nasturtiums
8:43 Flower #5: Borage
9:22 4 Tips For Maximum Results
12:39 Adventures With Dale
Always a one stop shop for information! Well explained and cut to the chase, I can actually remember everything you said after the video! You do not get enough credit man! Fun fact i tried marigolds last year by my cabbage and had the worst aphid infestation ive ever seen
We unfortunately have a lot of lyme carrying deer ticks here on the Southshore of Nova Scotia (zone 6B). I’m looking for ways to keep them away including planting deterrent plants. Are Shasta daisies as strong as the pyrethrum daisies in your opinion? Are there other plants/flowers that I should consider? Love all your videos, lots of great information!
I love that you kept repeating it is not magic it is strategy
Loving Dale!
I wish I could plant sunflowers, the squirrel around my yard ripped the head off of the one I planted a couple years ago, just to have a small nibble, didn't even eat the whole thing 😢
This is a very high value video for me, as I am learning to grow in the South. I've never grown in an area with this kind of pest pressure. Thank you ❤
Thank You for this Info I'll just buy them
My salvia always has a ton of bees on them and butterflies. I got 2 small plants last spring they are huge now!
We enjoy the giant sunflowers. An added benefit is the shade they produce in the heat of the summer. And pretty neat seeing birds like Golden Finches on them.
Thanks! I just love the flowers. My garden is usually fairly pest free because I plant them.
i use marigolds with my tomatoes and basil. I didn't know that about all the other insect repellent properties of the others. I also use the giant sunflowers with my beans to support them but didnt know it traps bugs..you are so smart!! i'm planning on trying dill with my cukes this year
Hey here's an idea: somebody figure out how to build a raised bed from those political signs that pop up all over the place. Election signs. I'd be willing to bet money there's an easy way to do it if you just figure it out
I have two different types of sunflowers this year. Going to plant the Mammoth and another multi-color variety. I'm planting them mostly to ammend the soil with their root structure. Plus the large sunflower stalks can be dried and used as stakes in your garden. Also good to make tee-pees to run vining veggies up onto, like beans or cucumbers.
Do you direct sow these or start them indoors?
Has anyone had good luck with starkbros? I ordered a peach tree from them. They say its professionally pruned so it better have like 4 side branches and open center.
I hate those leaf foooted bugs!
Do the pest repellent flowers repell Dragon Flies
Pyrethrum concentrate on the drop down
Where can it be found. What 10%’s?
I love your chanel!
Do you have any update of your Pawpaw?
Khu vườn thật đẹp 👍.
Can't wait for you to move to Florida so I can see what/how you grow here😊
Brilliant!
I bought Miracle Grow for raised beds as that is the only way I can plant, the first foot on either end was good looking, but the rest was full of rocks and large wooden pieces and was very dry. I feel RIPPED OFF, this is supposed to be high-quality soil and is expensive. My old soil needed to be amended, and added too and I was expanding certain veggies. It looked like cheap soil, as bad as the fill soil in my backyard bigger rocks, you can't use. Even watering it didn't revive it. Now I don't know how to fix it.
My comment is not related to your post, but I think will be helpful for many gardeners. If you are looking for two, Determinate tomatoes, that do well in heat and humidity, Lazy Do Farms, in south Georgia, highly recommends Red Snapper and Roadster varieties. Both are heavy producers of big tomatoes. I'm growing them for the first time this year. Check out Lazy Dog farms tomato videos.
John McHatton
If we are using buckets for our garden where do we plant the companion plants? TIA
Thank you so so much for this wonderful, helpful, and informative video. I am a longtime follower of yours–because of you and your videos, I had the courage to start seeds indoors and have a container garden! Thanks for these awesome videos–I love Dale! 🙂
That's great that sunflowers attract the pest when they are at the end of their life cycle. In Wisconsin the cardinals eat those pests. As well as Bluebirds and Chickadees. I don't even kill those bugs so my bird friends who hang around the yard get a meal of insects besides the few sunflower seeds that I put out for them also.🙂
Any suggestions for combatting ants? I have a huge ant problem in my front yard. I think I live on an ant farm. 🫤
What is your zoning area ?
That was some great advice thank you for your content, you have a lot of great advice.
Oh yeah;;:''" Dale could be just having a wonderful stroll.😎
I live in Rock Hill, SC (zone 8a) and planted some borage, but not nearly enough. Do you think I am still on time to plant more borage, and the rest of the flowers you mentioned?