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Beneficial Plants
Basil

Planted alongside tomato plants helps control tomato hornworms.

Thyme

Planted with cabbage helps control flea beetles, cabbage worm and white cabbage butterflies.

Marigold

Planted in vegetable gardens produces a scent that repels many garden pests.

Mint 

Repels mosquitoes and produces an odor that aphids and cabbage pests dislike.

Garlic 

Planted close to roses it can protect bushes from black spot, a fungus disease; can be grown in rings around a crop to repel aphids;
spray garlic tea on plants to eliminate fungus and mildew.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
-   George Eliot
Remove energy-stealing root suckers from the base of crabapple, plum, and cherry trees in spring, as they appear. Cut as close to the ground as possible.

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