These Brussels sprouts companion plants will help keep pests away naturally and help boost your harvests.

Those sulfur compounds also repel pests like aphids, slugs, and cabbage loopers from neighboring Brussels sprouts.

Beets

Beetsand otherroot vegetablesgrow underground.

Brussels sprouts plant before harvest

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Marigolds

Peter Krumhardt

Marigoldsare famous for their pest-repelling properties.

They can deter deer, rabbits, and an assortment of destructive insects.

Dwarf marigold varieties are available for grow in small spaces and container gardens.

onion plants in dirt

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Spinach

Denny Schrock

Spinach is acold-weather vegetablethat grows best in chilly spring and autumn gardens.

Zonal geraniums can also be grown near vegetable gardens for pest control purposes.

Radishes grow well in the light shade beneath Brussels sprouts, and they offer other benefits.

Anethum graveolens dill plant

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Mustard plant

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close up of beets

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French Marigolds Tagetes patula

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chamomile flowers

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English thyme Thymus vulgaris

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close up of spinach

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red geranium

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close up of a radish

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