Companion Planting Chart

[digitS']

I suspect that companion planting probably amounts to a benefit to one plant and a "no serious hinderance" to another but there is a fair amount of mixing of plants in my garden.

This is a chart put together by a very good gardener and I think it lays out rather clearly some of the best ideas:

Steve
edited to make the chart a little easier to see . . . I hope.

 

[hoodat]

Have you ever noticed that plants that taste good together usually also grow well together?

 

[digitS']

Well, I kind of think that all my vegetables taste good together, Billy.

The salad vegetables seem to enjoy each other well enuf . . .

Maybe you are thinking of something like basil & tomatoes? I'd best not try growing anything additional in the tomato patch for reasons outlined in another thread.

There in San Diego, I suppose you have things like rainbow trout growing in the shade of lemon trees .

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

As, usual Steve, you post really great and useful things!!
(already copied and printed out-- :bun )
Is there one that includes onion and garlic? DON'T HIT ME!!

 

[hoodat]

There in San Diego, I suppose you have things like rainbow trout growing in the shade of lemon trees .

Steve

Nope, shad berries

 

[digitS']

. . . Is there one that includes onion and garlic? . . .

I hadn't even noticed that onions were not included, Ducks!

I've got scallions mixed up with all the other salad vegetables. They take up very, very little room and I've yet to see any detriment to having them growing beside lettuce, or spinach, or radish, or even - other onions.

Howsomeever . . . I've been told by other, very knowledgeable gardeners, that I really should not pack bulb onions together and then thin for scallions. Bulb onions need room from the get-go. I packed my Walla Walla seedlings too tight this very afternoon . . . again.

Aaaand, I've been told that peas do NOT like onions!

Well, I've never tried that anyway as vines can be problematic for their neighbors so I'd have expected that it would be the other way around: onions don't like peas!

I have found that onions can't compete with bush beans. And, my tomato plants often grow over the top of some sets that I've pushed in between those big plants. You see, I'm very inclined to just "plunk down" sets most anywhere.

I haven't grown garlic in probably 30 years and don't know what it likes/hates.

Steve

 

[rebbetzin]

. . . Is there one that includes onion and garlic? . . .

I have two nice companion planting books, "Carrots love Tomatos" and "Roses Love Garlic"

Alliums, include onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives and such...

They are said to help.. Fruit Trees, Tomato, Peppers, potato, cabbages, broccoli, Kohlrabi, and carrots. and they can help in flower gardens to keep many pests away.

Asparagus needs to avoid Alliums

so do Beans and peas, and parsley

I did find a good chart on Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants

 

[vfem]

I got my onions with my strawberries all day long! And of course some garlic and onions where I had cabbage and broccoli. Great insect control from them.

I have my leeks in my front garden growing with my gerber daisies and so far, we've had good bug control keeping things off the lettuce I planted inbetween.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

For my birthday last year my son got me "The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food". It has been very helpful, it breaks down Allies, Companions, Incompatibles, Propagation, pest, diseases....It is a really good book. It is part of the Storey books.

Onions
Companions: Lettuce, pepper, spinach, strawberry, tomato
Incompatibles: All Beans, asparagus, peas, sage
Allies: Carrot,
(Uncertain: beet, caraway, chamomile, flax, summer savory).

Garlic
Companions: Beet, brassicas, cetery, chamomile, fruit trees, lettuce, raspbery, rose, savory, tomato
Incompatibles: All beans, peas

 

[obsessed]

I left my radishes to flower next to my squashes and I see no sign of the vine borer. It is still early in the season so ..........