As you plot and scheme and dream up your 2008 garden, consider which plants might hit it off together the best. Its a method called companion gardening and has proven to help soil nutrition, ward off pests and improve taste. Here are a few examples: Plant sunflowers behind lettuce - the lettuce keeps the soil moist and the sunflowers keep the lettuce shaded. Repel pests through smell - plant onions and garlic to protect strawberries, tomatoes, carrots and roses or use mint to save your cabbage. Marigolds are great pest busters anywhere as well as fragrant herbs like thyme and lemon interspersed throughout. Certain plants can act as decoys, luring pests away from your prized foliage and concentrating them in one area - try nasturtiums for this trick. Some flora can attract bees and good bugs such as hissop flowers, dill, marjoram and lemon balm. Pair these lovers for great taste: basil with tomato, chervil with radish, borage with strawberries. Before you know it your matchmaking will lead to a garden of wedded bliss.