Many plants have natural defenses that make pests want to keep their distance. Plan your garden layout so that plants with pest-repellant qualities are next to more susceptible plants.

Use this chart as a guide:

To repel this pest:	Plant this:
Ant	Mint, tansy, pennyroyal
Aphids	Mint, garlic, chives, coriander, anise
Bean Leaf Beetle	Potato, onion, turnip
Colorado Potato Bug	Green beans, coriander, nasturtium
Cucumber Beetle	Radish, tansy
Flea Beetle	Garlic, onion, mint
Imported Cabbage Worm	Mint, sage, rosemary, hyssop
Japanese Beetle	Garlic, larkspur, tansy, rue, geranium
Leaf Hopper	Geranium, petunia
Mexican Bean Beetle	Potato, onion, garlic, radish, petunia, marigolds
Mice	Onion
Root Knot Nematodes	French marigolds
Slugs	Rosemary, wormwood
Spider Mites	Onion, garlic, chives
Squash Bug	Radish, marigolds, tansy, nasturtium
Stink Bug	Radish
Thrips	Marigolds
Tomato Hornworm	Marigolds, sage, borage
Whitefly	Marigolds, nasturtium