Potential no toxic way to handle spider mite problem.

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I do companion planting for pest in my veggy garden, a friend of mine was vacuuming spider mites off his buds in his grow room, it didn't seem to harm the buds, but it bothered me regardless. So I did some research, and asked a few organic gardener I know....the most effective way would to be to add a few small pots, plant beans, at the same time you start your babies. They will grow and when the spider mites come they can not resist green beans, they will destroy your beans so you might have to do several crop intervals of beans. I took five bean seeds over to my friends and told him I solved his problem, five magic beans.

Note:do not put the beans in the same pot as your baby, defeats the purpose.

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It worked in my garden you saw the pics, I also used herbs rosemary, oregano thyme basil, onions, and next time surrounding the garden with garlic for loopers..., beans struggled to flower beneath them, but we don't need the bean just the plant. Plus they take oxygen out of the air and put nitrogen in to the soil. In the case of the room, (the plant has to be in its own pot) he is an ass, had a hard time listening to me because I'm a girl, and he is stuck in his redneck ways. But he looked at one top and said that's like my whole plant, and his wife said we should let her grow and we'll just help trim. I smiled ear to ear, he should have listened.
 
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Sometimes I would dry the herbs add parsley and sprinkled it down on the top, before they got sticky...it worked...cut one today that had a huge dry rosemary no baby looper worms. Had to hunt through the buds for babies, without molesting the buds, tweezers and a lot of time....second year, three growers, last year I only had worms on a twelve foot plant, I begged for the net, this year they shared in picking worms, sixty percent less because of the herbs. But next year there will be a net, because they don't want to pick worms. Other then the worms no bugs, except a crazy dragonfly and a few praying mantis.
 
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