February 8, 2019 Planting Sweet Alyssum with Vegetables Helps Control Pest Insects (2024)

February 8, 2019 by desertcanyonfarmgreenthoughts

Using Beneficial Insects on farms and in gardens is a great way to help control pest insects, such as aphids in lettuces, broccoli, cauliflower and other vegetables, because they hunt and eat the pest insects. When you get this normal in nature kind of control happening in your fields or in your gardens (large and small) there is rarely a need for the grower to resort to organic pesticides to manage the pest insect problems.

Here is a link to a great article about an organic farmer who grows romaine lettuce and inter-plants his fields with sweet alyssum as a way to attract beneficial insects into his lettuce crop. Yes, he is using this approach on a large scale, but even if you are a food gardener with a tiny vegetable plot, you can use the same approach. It will even work for container food gardeners.

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