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.

Companion Planting with Herbs

 

Herbs are an essential part of many gardens; they are beneficial in many ways and for many reasons. Herbs have many useful medicinal, culinary and household uses, and they should be present in every garden. Many people plant their herbs in a separate garden from their vegetables, and I am a victim of this practice myself, but I have recently learned that herbs are great companion plants in many vegetable and flower gardens. This article will discuss the benefits of herbs in your garden, and what plants are harmful and helpful.

Companion planting has been studied for several years, and this method has proven to enhance any garden extremely. This method of combining plants can help repel pests, attract insects that are helpful, add nutrients to the soil, and help aid in climate control. If you add herbs to your gardens I guarantee it will help your garden become stronger, healthier, and more productive. Here is a list of herbs and the plants that they enhance.

Anise - Coriander

Basil - Pepper and tomato

Beebalm- Tomato

Chamomile- Cucumber, onion, and most herbs

Chives- Carrot, grape, rose, and tomato

Dill- Cabbage, onion, and lettuce

Garlic- Rose

Larkspur- Bean and cabbage

Lovage- Bean

Marigold- Potato, rose, and tomato

Mint- Cabbage and tomato

Mustards- Bean, grape, and fruit trees

Oregano- Bean

Rosemary- Bean

Ruse- Fig

Sage- Cabbage, carrot, strawberry, tomato, marjoram

Tarragon- Most vegetables

Thyme- Eggplant, potato, and tomato

Ever notice that some plants just do not do well near each other? There are also herbs that have harmful effects on other plants, and these combinations should be observed as well if you want your garden to be healthy. Here is a list of enemy herbs.

Anise- Carrot

Chives- Bean and pea

Coriander- Fennel

Dill- Carrot and tomato

Fennel- Bean, pepper, and tomato

Garlic- Bean and pea

Larkspur- Beet

Mustard-Turnip

Onion- bean, pea, and sage

Rue- Basil, cabbage, and sage

Sage- Onion

Tansy- Collard

Wormwood- Most vegetables

If you are like me one of your worst garden nightmares is insect infestations. It is terrible when you have a beautiful thriving garden, and all of a sudden you notice holes in your leaves and insects are running amuck on what you thought was your bounty. There are also many herbs that repel pests, and here is a list of herbs that serve this purpose.

Ant- peppermint and tansy

Aphid- Catnip, chives, garlic, mustard, and mint

Cabbage butterfly- Southernwood

Carrot fly- Leek, lettuce, rosemary, sage,

Cucumber beetle- catnip, marigold, nasturtium, rue

Japanese beetle- Catnip, chives, garlic, tansy

Mexican bean beetle- Marigold, rosemary, savories

Mouse- Wormwood

Mole- Castor bean, narcissus

Rabbit- garlic, marigold, onion

Slug and snail- Fennel, garlic, marigold

Spider mite- Coriander

Whitefly- Nasturtium, peppermint, thyme, wormwood

Companion planting with herbs brightens your garden up; it enhances the growth of your plants, and it helps protect your plants from pests. Try companion planting with herbs today!

Companion Planting Part 1: Plants Need Friends Too

 

Companion planting is a great way to enhance your garden in many ways. This method of planting allows you to increase harvest size, maximize area space, and enhance strength of crops. Companion planting is also helpful for repelling insects, and adding nutrients that are supportive of plant growth. This method of planting is beneficial in all aspects, and this article will discuss companion plants alphabetically from A - G.

Alfalfa grows well with dandelions.

Apricots are suppressed by potatoes and tomatoes.

Asparagus is aided directly by tomatoes, and tomatoes are affected positively by asparagus as well. Asparagus also does well when planted with parsley.

All Beans grow well with potatoes. Bush, green, dwarf, snap, string, wax, and butter beans grow well with cucumbers, cabbage, and strawberries. These beans do not benefit fennel, and their dislike is mutual. Pole beans will enhance your radishes, but beets, and onions do not fair so well.

Beets really like dwarf beans, onions, and kohlrabi, and these purple vegetables will also help lettuce and cabbage.

Cabbage includes cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, and kohlrabi. Beets are a good match for cabbage, but strawberries are not.

Carrots grow nicely in the presence of peas, leaf lettuce, red radishes, and chives. Planting leeks with carrots will help repel the carrot fly.

Celeriac is benefited by leeks.

Celery enjoys the company of leeks, bush beans, and tomatoes.

Corn grows well with early potatoes. Many plants appreciate the shade of a corn field such as beans, squash, melons, and cucumbers.

Cucumbers are aided by the cucumber beetle repelling power of a few radish seeds. Lettuce, bush, beans, and radishes are also good plants to grow with cucumbers.

Eggplant should be planted with green bean plants to prevent the Colorado potato beetle from attacking the plants

Fennel has a harmful effect on bush beans, kohlrabi, and tomatoes Fennel is harmed by wormwood plants that grow in the same area.

Fruit trees are aided by legumes and mustard; other plants that fruit trees enjoy are garlic, chives, and nasturtiums.

Garlic and roses grow well together, but garlic inhibits the growth of peas and beans.

Grapevine can be enhanced if it is supported by a mulberry tree or an elm tree.

Guava trees are helpful to citrus trees.

There are many different plants that can be grouped with each other in order to enhance the growth and production of each other. Companion planting is a good way to help your garden grow; try companion planting today!