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Marigolds were always a favorite - they were pretty, hardy, and had a long flowering season. Unfortunately, they are less so in the unrelenting heat, humidity, and rain of our summers...though these look awfully healthy! An interesting facet about this scented plant is its apparent ability to repel certain insects and thus, is planted along side vegetables such as tomatoes (I know technically a fruit), cucumbers, and squash.
Companion planting is a great example of building on the strengths of differences to blend together for mutually productive benefit. That type of team work can play a positive role in not only the end result, but also the process of getting there. Including the social aspect of learning in this synergistic experience offers preparation for our students' futures - sure beats rote memorization! Home Depot Garden Dept, Pine Ridge Rd, Naples, FL
Companion planting at its finest. Borage brings bees and other helpful insects to the strawberries as well as providing helpful nutrients. It also repels bad pests and it's beautiful!
I grow these as ornamental, edibles, and trap crops for aphids (they love these plants and tend to stay here rather than hit the tomatoes, so far at least).
I've taken a few out of the greenhouse and planted them with veggies in containers. We'll see how they do, hope it's not too early.
A section of my garden showing companion planting. Shown: Tomato, Basil, Garlic, Dill, Nettle, Podding Radish, Coriander
Companion plants in our Garden -- oops - forgot to mention the Marigolds. Sorta helps keep the deer away (and aphids, I've heard.)
Another baby Better Boy Tomato companion planted in the square foot garden, raised container garden boxes in the Eat & Live Garden.
Gardener planting dill next to fava beans to attract beneficial insects and acts as aphid repellant.
Bell Peppercompanion planted in square foot garden in the Eat & Live Green raised container garden boxes.
Basil companion planted in square foot garden in the Eat & Live Green raised container garden boxes.
Stinging Nettle seedling. When it grows up it will protect my tomatos from root disease and prowling critters.
Rio Samba, hybrid tea rose shown in 3 stages of bloom. The Gardens of the American Rose Center, located on a 118-acre wooded tract in Shreveport, Louisiana. Located here is the national headquarters of the American Rose Society. It is the nation’s largest park dedicated to roses. The American Rose Center features more than 65 individual rose gardens and 20,000 rosebushes, with a variety of companion plants, sculptures and fountains.
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Stinging Nettle seedling. When it grows up it will protect my tomatos from root disease and prowling critters.
Mexican type, I believe. Anyway, cheap drugstore flowers are fine if they're nice companion plants. This one is in a bed of Hungarian wax peppers, tomatoes, borage, poppies and volunteers.
Basil companion planted in square foot garden in the Eat & Live Green raised container garden boxes.
I believe this is a blue beauty tomato plant. I say this because of the blue-ish color at the base of the stem. But then the rest of the plant does not show any blue markings. I'll eventually figure it out once it gets bigger. If not, I'll definitely know when it produces fruit.
We started using the Three Sisters planting method last year. It's an Iroquois companion planting technique where corn, pole beans, and squash are grown in the same space, although we don't have fish scraps to fertilize with like they would have used.
More information on the technique can be found at www.almanac.com/content/companion-planting-three-sisters.
We have planted corn here, and used chamomile as a ground cover. Interplanting, or companion planting, is based on the idea that some plants can benefit one another when planted together. Chamomile is a wonderful herb to plant in your garden; it will provide overall health to your garden. We chose to let it grow under the corn to provide ground cover and to attract beneficial insects.
We planted these directly in our raised beds as a companion plant. They're supposed to help deter cabbage moths/worms and tomato hornworms. But we've been enjoying them in their own right.
Some say invasive - but most deliciously edible - all of it - a peppery plant & a definite companion plant - it staves off aphids, squash bugs and such
Walla Onions companion planted in square foot garden in the Eat & Live Green raised container garden boxes.
A baby Better Boy Tomato companion planted in the square foot garden, raised container boxes in the Eat & Live Green Garden.
DANDELION (Taraxacum officinale) in Staten Island, New York, USA. April, 2016. Copyright Tom Turner.
Tomato blossoms on the better boy tomatoes companion planted in the square foot garden in raised container boxes.
As well as the notes I put a lot of flowers in my sfg. I have many types of cosmo, marigold, nasturtium. German chamomile and thyme.
I believe this is a blue beauty tomato plant. I say this because of the blue-ish color at the base of the stem. But then the rest of the plant does not show any blue markings. I'll eventually figure it out once it gets bigger. If not, I'll definitely know when it produces fruit.