Friday, May 11, 2012

Companion Planting

Hey Fellow Gardeners!
As you begin your gardens this season I would love to share with you some good information from Carrots Love Tomatoes (by Louise Riotte) on companion planting.  This is just the best resource I've come across in a long time.  Here we go:

Asparagus loves parsley, basil, and tomatoes
Bush beans love celery, cucumbers, strawberries and in alternate rows with corn
Pole beans love corn and summer savory
Beets love bush beans, onions, and kohlrabi
Broccoli loves dill, celery, camomile, sage, peppermint, rosemary, potatoes, beets and onions
Cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, collards and brussel sprouts love the same things that broccoli loves
Carrots love tomatoes, leaf lettuce, chives, onions, leeks, rosemary, sage, and radishes
Corn loves potatoes, peas, beans, cucumbers, pumpkin and squash
Cucumbers love corn, beans, peas, radishes, and sunflowers
Eggplant loves green beans
Leeks love celery, onions, and carrots
Lettuce loves green onions, strawberries, cucumbers, and carrots
Okra loves bell peppers and eggplant
Onions loves all members of the cabbage family, beets, strawberries, tomatoes, summer savory, and camomile
Parsley loves carrots
Peas love carrots, turnips, radishes, cucumbers, beans, potatoes, and aromatic herbs
Peppers love basil and okra
Pumpkins love corn and jimsonweed (thorn apple)
Radishes love redroot pigweed, nasturtiums, mustard greens, beets, spinach, carrots, parsnips, cucumbers, squash, melons, kohlrabi, bush beans, pole beans, and leaf lettuce
Salsify loves mustard greens and watermelon
Shallots love most garden vegetables, but like onions and garlic not near peas or beans
Spinach loves strawberries
Squash loves radishes and nasturtiums
Sweet Potatoes love white hellebore
Tomatoes love asparagus, chives, onions, parsley, marigolds, nasturtiums, carrots, garlic, stinging nettle
Turnips-Rutabagas love peas, radishes and vetch

This is just the tip of the iceberg for this resource.  I recommend every gardener have a copy on their bookshelf.  By the end of the season it will have soiled fingerprints in it--the best sign of a great gardening book!!


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