Cilantro saves peas

I always plant multiple veggies, flowers and herbs in my garden beds. Except this time of year if I don't manage to get my fall crops in. Unfortunately that's the case this year. There's a few broccoli finishing up, and the kale that grows year round.
In late winter I planted peas. As soon as they came up something eat them. I planted peas again. This time I laid chicken wire over the top of the bush peas, and made a chicken wire tent around the climbers.  This was working great... Until It came time to remove the wire/ the climbers grew through.
My daughter enjoys cilantro, and this is also time to grow that so I have it sprinkled around.
Something is eating the top off the peas, except the ones that came up amongst the cilantro, and the onions. The difference in the same bed, same peas, planted at the same time is truly amazing.
This little lesson just reminds me of I'm going to plant anything at any time always plant lots of companions.

You can see the tops missing on the climbers, but the peas growing with the onions look good.  Maybe we will get some peas.  
I have lots to be planted. I'm just waiting for the night time temps to be consistently 50 degrees.

Thanks for sharing!  My garden is fenced but I'd say the deer would decimate my peas if given the opportunity.

I obtained some cilantro seed earlier this year because I read that it repels aphids and is beneficial to pollinators.  Unfortunately I'm one of those people whose gag reflex is activated by the taste of it but I fully intend to give it a place in my gardens

This spring, when I planted out a couple dozen brussels sprouts I’d started in my greenhouse, there was a mess of dill coming up, which I just left. The brussels sprouts that became surrounded by a screen of dill were left alone, while a juvenile rabbit ate the others back. Now they are way behind the protected ones.

I let dill and cilantro re-seed themselves, and just pull the ones that are in my way, leaving as many as I can.

Crowding in nasturtium and marigolds also helps distract pests.

Observations like these gives puttering around in the garden legs.

Michelle Heath wrote:Thanks for sharing!  My garden is fenced but I'd say the deer would decimate my peas if given the opportunity.

I obtained some cilantro seed earlier this year because I read that it repels aphids and is beneficial to pollinators.  Unfortunately I'm one of those people whose gag reflex is activated by the taste of it but I fully intend to give it a place in my gardens

You could just harvest seed to use for seasoning in pickles when canning.