Companion Planting For The Garden

Certain vegetable plants just seem made to grow near each other. They help each other out.

They grow well together and can do a lot towards keeping the pests away from your garden bounty.

I am going to give you a list of some vegetables that are good to plant next to other vegetables.

Corn companions with potatoes, peas, beans, cucumbers, pumpkin, and squash.

Onions and garlic companion with beets, strawberries, tomato,lettuce, summer savory, and camomile.

Lettuce companions with carrots and radishes. These three make a very strong team together.

Cabbage family plants which include: cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts companion with potatoes, celery, dill, camomile, sage, peppermint, rosemary, beets, and onions.

Planting aromatic plants near the cabbage family vegetables will help keep the cabbage butterfly away. The cabbage butterfly is a white butterfly and is a pest.

Pole beans companion with corn and summer savory. Bush beans companion with potatoes, cucumbers,corn, strawberries, celery, and summer savory.

Tomatoes companion with chives, onion, parsley, basil, asparagus, marigold, and carrot.

Potatoes companion with beans,corn, cabbage, horeradish( should be planted at corners of the patch), marigold, and eggplant. The eggplant is used as a lure for the Colorado potato beetle.

Eggplants companion with beans.

Pumpkins companion with corn. In fact, Native Americans used to plant there squash and pumpkins in amongst their corn.

Soybeans companion with everything. They will help all plants because they enrich the soil.

There are also a few vegetables that you should not plant next to each other.

Do not plant fennel next to tomatoes or beans. Also do not plant tomatoes next to kohlrabi.

If you are interested in trying this method of gardening and you can't find the vegetable you want check out Companion Planting for a more complete list.