Pollination

It is always good to encourage pollination. There are some plants that will attract hoverflies and bees that are the insects that pollinate the best.

The plants that best attract them are:

- Marigold
- Nasturtiums

It is good to plant any of the above close to the tomatoes to ease the pollination.

Buddleja - Butterfly bush

Latin plant name Buddleja Common plant name Butterfly bush Plant type Herbaceous perennial plant Size (meters) < 5 m Distinguishing features The leaves are lanceolate in most species, and arranged in opposite pairs on the stems. The flowers are produced in dense panicles 10–50 cm long; each individual flower is tubular, about 1 cm long, with the corolla divided into four spreading lobes. Flower colour varies widely, with white, pink, red, purple, orange or yellow. They grow a lot, sometimes it's conisdered invassive.

Flies and beans

The tip of the bean's plant is the one that attracts the flies, so its recommended to cut the tip after the flowers are out, around June or July.

Deter insects with plants

The following are plants often used in vegetable gardens to deter insects

Plant	Pests
Basil	Repels flies and mosquitoes.
Catnip	Deters flea beetle.
Dill	Deters black bean beetles.
Garlic	Deters Japanese beetle.
Horseradish	Deters potato bugs and phytopthora
Marigold	The workhorse of pest deterrents. Discourages Mexican bean beetles, nematodes and others.
Mint	Deters white cabbage moth, ants.
Nasturtium	Deters aphids, squash bugs, cabbage moth, Whitefly and striped pumpkin beetles.
Pot Marigold	Deters asparagus beetle, Manduca quinquemaculata (tomato horn worm), and general garden pests.
Peppermint	Repels the white cabbage butterfly.
Rosemary	Deters cabbage moth, bean beetles and carrot fly.
Sage	Deters cabbage moth and carrot fly.
Southernwood	Deters cabbage moth.
Summer Savory	Deters bean beetles.
Tansy	Deters flying insects, Japanese beetles, striped cucumber beetle, squash bugs and ants.
Thyme	Deters cabbage worm.
Wormwood	Deters animals from garden.

Deterring mammals without chemical

Rabbits and deer are the most annoying big pests.

If you can afford it and it's feasible to do so, putting up a fence is the only fool-proof way to keep animals out of your garden.

Other methods can be:

1. Bloodmeal: Bloodmeal is a by product of meat packing plants. It's dried and flaked blood and animals strongly dislike the smell of it. Prey animals like rabbits and deer are spooked by the smell of blood, even old dried blood. Bloodmeal is also extremely high in nitrogen and a great additive for your garden. Sprinkle it around your plants and in your garden beds. Take care, however, not to sprinkle the powder directly on the plants. The high nitrogen content can burn the leaves.
2. Introduce Strong Scents: If you have a strong aversion to spreading bloodmeal all over your yard, you can also introduce other strong scents. Deer, particularly, are not fond of really strong smells like bars of scented soap, cheap perfume, and other strong smells. 
3. Scare them offf with Water: Scarecrow sprinklers look like regular lawn sprinklers, except they have a battery-powered motion sensor. Anything that gets in the path of the sensor gets a sudden and intense blast of water. 

Slugs-free without chemicals

Slugs:

Coffee grounds are a great addition to your garden. They add nitrogen to the soil, they increase the acidity for acid loving plants, and, best of all, a wide range of creatures can't stand coffee grounds. Slugs hate coffee, cats hate coffee; it's even sometimes an effective olfactory-based repellent for picky deer.

Slugs are, in my humble opinion, the most annoying of garden pests. They're the veritable ninjas of plant destruction. Unless you're looking for them—and carefully—it's rare to see slugs at all, yet every night they descend upon your garden and chew the crap out of everything. You can deal with slugs a variety of ways depending on your adversity to killing them or merely redirecting them to your neighbor's yard.

Coffee grounds, as mentioned above, will deter slugs to a degree. Even more effective, and radically longer lasting, is copper. Slugs and snails hate copper. You can use copper in a variety of forms to keep them away. To keep slugs from crawling up into your potted plants you can put decorative copper tape around the body of the container.

You can make an effective slug trap with little more than an orange rind or a shallow container and some grape juice or beer. Save the half-rinds from citrus fruits like grape fruit and oranges and place them about your garden. Slugs will flock to the rind. Come morning you can throw the rind in the trash or put it on top of your compost pile to dry them out in the sun and mix them into your compost.

Crashed egg shells will also kill the slugs as they will get cut when licking the inside of the shell.


Some hints to get rid from slugs:

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