Basil and Peppers Companion Planting

B(caps)asil Companion Planting with peppers work together symbiotically, each giving or receiving something from the other. Companion planting simply means grouping different plants together. This may accomplish several things. Companion planting may provide shade or act as a wind barrier, or deterring harmful pests and disease from our plants.  Basil is a wonderful pepper plant companions. Basil wards off thrips, flies, mosquitoes, and basil flowers attract beneficial predatory wasps that feed on aphids.

Basil is a plant suitable for growing alongside peppers. Basil wards off thrips. Thrips are tiny, and can cause big trouble on pepper plants. Their damage causes a silver appearance on the leaves, flower buds, and fruits. Thrips are so small and identifying them is a challenge. To deter thrips, plant basil nearby and around your pepper plants, which will help to mask pepper plants from thrips. The volatile chemicals released by basil plants mask those emitted from the pepper plants, making it difficult for the thrips to discover their pepper host.

Basil is easy to grow in herb and vegetable gardens, with its fragrant leaves that add flavor to a lot of dishes.

Companion planting can be an organic way to protect your crops from pests, and help improve pollination of fruit and vegetable crops. Basil as a companion plant with peppers helps attract pollinators, keeps pests like thrips, flies, aphids, spider mites, and mosquitoes away, basil can also help enhance the flavor of both sweet and hot peppers. 

 

Adding basil to your garden does more than provide a fresh supply of the tasty herb, but its also a great companion plant for a number of vegetables. Grown close together, basil keeps away common pests. Planting basil near your crops will attract a wide range of insects to the area. More bees visiting your plot will result in more pollination of your vegetable blooms and therefore lead to bigger yields.

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Consider planting basil throughout the garden and enjoy this universal effect.

I hope that you find this article useful to help improve your pepper plants growing!

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