THE EFFECT OF COMPANIONATE PLANTING ON LEPIDOPTERAN PESTS OF CABBAGE

Urban Farm DB summary

A paper on field experiments conducted in southside Virginia, United States, sought to quantify the effect of companion plants (repellent herbs) on major lepidopteran pests of cabbage. It cites an estimated 33 million home and community gardens grown in the United States during 1976 and 1977 as context, noting that claims about companionate planting's protective effects made by organic growers had little field evidence to substantiate them. The abstract does not report the experiment's specific results.