Forget the herb garden.....LOL i can just picture my weed with basil growing with it , should i throw some marigolds in there to Splash of color and all ya know? I can see I answered my own question at the beginning Either tox them or plant some for the bugs.... No offence but if it were legal I still would not do it because it Does not work, Neither do marigolds I had a stand of basil out back and RIGHT next to it was my parsley My parsley was decimated by bugs ....and so was the basilassit:
You use Parsley for Asparagus and Tomato. Basil and Parsley are both controllers/preventers, they don't assist each other. Its typically an herb plant to protect a vegetable plant/flowering plant. Marigolds don't do shit. Pennyroyal for gnats and ants. Basil or Parsley for bug control. Mint for moths and worms.
I had 19 different herbs, 4 types of mints alone. I can say with years of experience that these claims IN my experiences never panned out. I tried the citronella for mosquito's, I suspect down here even a hector of it would not work. Ants?.......... we have been invaded by Fire Ants......a whole norther story and trust me penny royal ain't going to cut it with them. If a colony gets established in ones garden the will kill everything good and they do kill any plants in their way . They are also prolific, in the summer i could show you several mounds 2 feet tall at least and man many others in an area the size of a yard, in my area thats bout a half acre. As i noted basil and parsley can not even protect them selfs so i can not see what good it would do with marijuana, additionally they are quite small plants and would be shaded out in a mj patch quickly. Knats are everywhere in the summer and since they move around its impractical IMO to try to plant plants to avoid them for a MJ patch. Again i suspect they would get shaded out though it will still grow , with stealth in mind its a non choice for me at least. The Gnats would just mug ya coming and going anyway, where i live their a fact of life in summer. Also Basil flowers with those nice pretty small White flowers, IMO not what i want in my patch. As far as vegetable gardens and bugs go-- , well my veggie garden was planted kinda in the middle of my Herb garden and like i said, bugs ate the tomatoes, basil, parsley, Mint too-- . One folk lore around here says mint keeps fleas away. I had a lot of dogs so I planted mint all around the house. Dogs still had fleas. I was all into that but it did not work , though I was still glad to have the plants around the house.
Damn, that sucks man. It may be a regional thing. A lot of that stuff works for me, but I also have a year round growing season. Hope you can find a solution that works for you with minimal effort.
In some ways i suspect your right, we have high heat/hum from march to Oct most years. Damn bugs love it, I tried many natural things but.... I still love them though, I took most of my herbs with me in pots. My favorite was bee balm, Hummingbirds loved it and hummingbirds are way cool, i always have feeders for them and every year when they migrate back there will 30 of them or more at my feeder at first,,,,,,,,,usually they never drink a whole feeder. but when the ''gathering'' as i call it every year takes place they will drain a feeder 2 times a week for about 3 weeks then they slack off and disperse and then i see maaybe 10 a day at the feeder. I love hummingbirds
