Hi people

[Verinda]

Hello, welcome to the forum

[vixylix]

Welcome! You'll love it here - relax and enjoy

[BoyWonder26]

Hello Boywonder your plot looks great. Good luck with it all! Companion planting & using trap crops is the best bug defence I find. This year my nasturtium were about 2 meters away from my runner beans,left & right sides & they work incredibly well as magnets for aphids,usually I have loads high up on the bean poles but they weren't interested in them. French marigolds are beneficial everywhere too,slugs nibble on those instead of your crops.

I only worked out nasturtiums as I remembered that the leaves were normally black with greedy nibblers and the greedy nibblers were attacking my herb pot so I planted some in there xD

I'm also planning on growing morning glory or some other climber type plant that's not going to take over alongside my beans so I get colour beyond nice tasting crops