Sunday, April 25, 2021

Companion Planting Part 2: Plants Need Friends Too

 


Companion planting is a great way to enhance the productivity and efficiency of your garden. Many plants will help each other grow in many ways. Companion planting can help add nutrients to the soil, prevent pests from attacking plants, and help with wind, rain, and other climate conditions. Companion planting is helpful to any garden, and it will produce positive results; this article will discuss companion plants alphabetically from H through P.

Horseradish is a good plant to group with potatoes, but it should only be planted in a couple of corners of a potato plot.

Kohlrabi is a plant that grows nicely with beets and onions, but do not plant them with tomatoes or pole beans.

Leeks grow really well with celery, celeriac, and carrots. Leeks help repel carrot flies so they grow well together.

Lettuce is a wonderfully easy plant to grow, and it is aided by strawberries, carrots, radishes, and onions. Lettuce, cabbage, and beets enjoy each other's company.

Mulberries will help grapes grow, and grape vines can be easily trained to grow on mulberry trees.

Oats should not be planted near apricot trees.

Onions enjoy the company of beets, chamomile, savory, and carrots. Onions have a negative impact on peas and beans.

Peas like being grown near radishes, cucumbers, corn, beans, and turnips, but it should be kept away from onions and garlic.

Potatoes are a great crop, and early potatoes and regular potatoes have different companion plants. Early potatoes like growing with corn, cabbage and peas. These potatoes like growing with peas especially because the peas add nitrogen to the soil and potatoes need nitrogen to be healthy. If potatoes are planted in an area after a rye crop has grown there they will also grow well. Broad beans, eggplant, and horseradish grow well with regular potatoes, but potatoes should not be grown with tomatoes and pumpkins.

Pumpkins enjoy growing close to corn because corn provides shade and protection from wind, but pumpkins do not grow well with potatoes.

It is easy to understand why companion planting is such a good way to improve your garden; these methods of planting will help aid the nutrient content of your soil, provide climate control, and they will help take care of unwanted pests. People have been practicing companion planting for years, and it is a great way of gardening that more people should take advantage of. I hope this article has helped you understand your plants a little bit better, and I hope it has inspired you to get out in your garden.

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