My Beautiful Garden Decors: Interplanted with cole crops such as kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage, and broccoli, mustard greens serve as a trap crop for flea beetles. The beetles are attracted to the mustard first, leaving the cole crops to grow undisturbed -- at least in theory.

Friday, November 22, 2013

Interplanted with cole crops such as kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage, and broccoli, mustard greens serve as a trap crop for flea beetles. The beetles are attracted to the mustard first, leaving the cole crops to grow undisturbed -- at least in theory.

Interplanted with cole crops such as kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage, and broccoli, mustard greens serve as a trap crop for flea beetles. The beetles are attracted to the mustard first, leaving the cole crops to grow undisturbed -- at least in theory.