Companion Planting & Edible Flowers with Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson - Episode 10
grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends
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The French Margolds and Smartes
A lot of these companion plants are your classic cut flowers. The scent and the leaves help to disguise tomatoes from white fly. You won't get apids then, and it will look absolutely gorgeous. This year i'm going to grow these french margolds. They're not totally double the airy, so you can cut them for the vase. And if you want to go lots of tomatoes, they're the thing to plant with your tomatoes,. cause they stop the white fly from being able to smell them. I think in sort of perhaps four different families is a really fantastic planting idea.
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