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Plant a lavender hedge around an onion patch to protect them from onion maggot, and lavender bushes around fruit trees to deter codling moth.
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Rosemary planted near carrots, deters carrot fly and bean beetle. Sprigs of rosemary placed with clothes, will repel moths and silverfish.
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Put sage bushes near doorways, to keep ants away. Planted in the vegetable garden, sage is believed to keep mice away.
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Plant fennel near doorways and windows, to repel flies and mosquitoes. Place fresh leaves in your pet’s bedding, and rub through its coat to ward off fleas.
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Use both annual and perennial chamomile flowers to make an anti-fungal spray, by pouring one liter of boiling water over two firmly-packed cupfuls of fresh flowers. Steep, then strain.
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Protect cabbage, beans, and tomatoes, by planting basil nearby.
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Citronella oil is a general insect repellent, and can be used as bait to trap and drown codling moth and male fruit flies.
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Garlic spray can be used to kill or repel a range of pests such as: aphids, woolly aphid, bean fly, stink and horned bugs, crickets, and grasshoppers.