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Honey-scented flowers attract hoverflies, lacewings, and parasitic wasps. Excellent as ground cover under vegetables to attract beneficial insects. Self-seeds in mild climates.
Fagopyrum esculentum
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Thrives in the same full sun, low water conditions as Sweet Alyssum
Attract Hoverflies, Lacewings, Ladybugs, Parasitic wasps, Ground beetles to keep them in check — plant Common VetchExcellent, Hairy VetchExcellent and SainfoinExcellent nearby.Start Sweet Alyssum indoors about 4 weeks before your last frost, keeping seeds in cooler soil (around 10–18 °C). Seeds usually come up in around 7 days. Move seedlings out once the danger of frost has passed, in full sun, spaced about 15 cm apart. Expect the first blooms in roughly 45 days.
Keep track of the seeds you own.
Water: Low · Height: 15 cm · Soil: Well-draining, average to poor
Aphididae
Curled leaves, sticky honeydew and ants on patrol — usually with something already eating them.
These three thrive alongside Sweet Alyssum — and alongside each other.
