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Nasturtiums are wonderfully easy flowers to grow and are great for new gardeners and for those growing with the youngest members of the family.
They can, of course, be wonderful as ornamental plants, but another thing to consider is that they also make great companion plants in a vegetable garden – and provide edible yields in their own right.
Nasturtiums make great companion plants because they:
- Attract bees and other pollinators.
- Draw in pest species like aphids, weevils and beetles, serving as a trap crop to keep these pests away from your fruit and vegetable crops.
- Attract predatory insects that like to eat the aphids and other pests mentioned above, to keep their numbers down.
- Have a scent that is said to confuse or repel certain pests.
- Create good ground cover, conserve soil moisture and protect the soil.
- Quickly grow, generating biomass that can be fed back into the system through composting, or chopping and dropping to help improve soil fertility for other plants close by.
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