Peppermint Companion Planting
(tips on growing peppermint in your garden)
Along with our guide for companion planting with herbs, Our Herb Garden has this peppermint companion planting guide.
Whether you are growing peppermint for its pretty flowers, its tasty leaves or its companion planting attributes, it is bound to make a wonderful addition to your garden. Just be sure that you maintain a firm hand, otherwise it might become invasive.
Peppermint Companion Plants.
Cabbage, kholrabi, broccoli and kale will be enhanced if peppermint is planted nearby. However, you should not grow parsley or chamomile near mint.
Peppermint attracts.
Peppermint will attract bees and other beneficial insects to your garden.
Peppermint repels many harmful insects.
Peppermint repels ants, aphids, cabbage fly, cabbage looper and flea beetles.
Peppermint & Insect Control.
Peppermint is known to attract bees and other benficial insects to your garden and repel ants, aphids, cabbage fly, cabbage looper and flea beetles.
Additional Peppermint Information
(Mentha piperita, Linn.)
To learn more about growing peppermint be sure to check out our peppermint fact sheet.
Our history of peppermint page discusses both historical and modern uses for peppermint.