I like to keep my allotment as organic as possible and never use chemicals. Last year I had problems with whitefly enjoying my kale almost as much as I did. Mind you, I suppose that is one way of getting extra protein! :D
What plants make the best companions not only for whitefly but for all the other annoying little bugs that want to eat my crops? I will have to get to the local garden centre and buy some flower seeds, I just don't know what's best.
this might help you.http://www.angiesrealm.com/gardening/index.html
Almost everything you will need and want for companion planting:
http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/companion.htm
I have this printed and laminated in my shed at the lottie and home.
Not so sure about the list from Angie's Realm - if I'm reading it right, looking at the entry for onions it says that beans and peas are both friend and foe.
KT, I use your list too, though I may have got it from a different site. The Down Garden Services site looks really interesting, though. Thanks for flagging it up.
Neither of the lists mentions Nicandra (aka the shoo-fly plant) reputed to combat whitefly. ???
Last year (Spring 2007)we had the whitefly too.
The cold winter may have got rid of them.
It does seem that white fly do not like the smell of marigolds. I grew lots and planted them all over the place last summer, my purple sprouting etc did not have the 'dandruff' this spring. May be it worked.
Every so often there are plagues of a certain pest, then they seem to go after a season.