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Alyssum & Vegetables

✓ Excellent Companions

✓ Why Alyssum and Vegetables Work Well Together

✓Sweet alyssum provides habitat for beneficial ground beetles
✓Attracts hoverflies whose larvae eat aphids
✓Low-growing ground cover

🔬 How It Works (Science)

  • 1.Nectar source for hoverflies and parasitic wasps
  • 2.Ground beetle habitat
  • 3.Living mulch effect

📋 Planting Tips

1Seed alyssum under and around vegetables
2Allow to self-seed for perennial ground cover
3White alyssum is most beneficial

📏 Recommended Spacing

Alyssum as border or scattered throughout bed

📚 Sources & Research

  • •Beneficial insect habitat research
  • •IPM studies

Other Vegetables Companions

Zinnias✓ GoodFennel✕ Avoid

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