Which plants should be planted together?
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Tj Blue
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Which gardening plants enhance the growth & protection of each other?
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that is referred to as companion planting....check out the book carrots love tomatoes. There are also charts out in internet world...google companion planting.
Tried and true, basil enhances the taste of tomatoes. Nasturtium and Marigolds are good repellent plants, but not 100% effective. I don't think there is anything that will completely protect your vegetables without you intervening. I have found that monoculture will be your downfall. I interplant various things, a total mishmash and have had the best success that way. Except potatoes, nobody seems to like the lowly spud, so they have their own spot. It is not pretty, by any means, but it keeps my hand picking of insects down to a minimum. I guess it confuses them.
i always plant basil near mytomatoes, marigolds at each end of row, then I mix rosemary, lavender, oregano & sage in between my cucumber & summer squash. Works great for my garden 😊
The "three sisters" are squash, beans and corn, and they do well with the nutrients that each add and delete from the soil. Also the squash like to trellis up the cornstalks a little, keeping the fruit off the ground.
http://www.ufseeds.com/Vegetable-Companion-Planting-Chart.html