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Planting
certain plants together can enhance growth and nearly eliminate some
pest and disease problems.
On the flip
side, planting other combinations together can hinder growth.
The
following guide will give you some ideas on how to design your garden.
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Plants
that enhance growth |
Plants
that hinder growth
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Beans
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Catnip repels flea
beetles. Rosemary repels insects. Celery, corn and tomatoes improve
growth. Beans like summer savory, strawberries, cucumbers, carrots, and
cauliflower
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Onion-family plants,
gladiolus, fennel
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Beet
root
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Bush
beans, onions, kohlrabi, lettuce, and most members of the cabbage family
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Pole bean
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Cabbage
and cabbage-family members
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Aromatic
plants such as rosemary, sage, and thyme repel insects. Interplant with
clover and lettuce to help confuse insect pests. Hyssop, thyme,
southern wood, and wormwood will repel cabbage moths. All aromatic
plants or those with many blossoms like celery, dill, chamomile,
peppermint, onions and potato. |
Pole beans and
strawberries. Tomatoes and kohlrabi stunt each other's growth.
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Carrots
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Interplant
with peas, radishes, or sage to improve flavor- peas also add nutrients
to the soil. Onions, leeks and rosemary help repel root maggot flies.
Onions help repel carrot rust flies. Plant with leaf lettuce and tomato
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Dill and anise
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Corn
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Beans
and peas add nutrients to the soil. Plant them in between corn rows or
train them up corn stalks. Likes potato, pumpkin, squash, melons,
cucumber
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Quackgrass and tomato
(tomato and corn earthworm are identical)
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Cucumbers
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Radishes
lure cucumber beetles away. Marigolds repel the pests. Likes corn,
beans, peas, sunflower
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Potatoes and aromatic
herbs like sage.
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Horseradish
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Likes
potatoes
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Lettuce
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Beets,
carrots, cucumbers, cabbage-family crops, radishes, and strawberries
all enhance growth.
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None
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| Onion
Family |
Beets.
Interplant with potatoes to deter Colorado potato beetles. Likes
cabbage family, strawberries, tomatoes
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Beans, peas, sage.
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Peas
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Carrots,
turnips, radishes, cucumbers, corn beans, potatoes, aromatic herbs.
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Onion, garlic, gladiolus
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Peppers
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Carrots.
Marigolds help repel aphids and nematodes. Aromatic plants such as
catnip, coriander, nasturtiums, onions and tansy may also repel aphids.
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Beans, fennel and
kohlrabi.
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Potatoes
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Beans,
corn, marigolds, and herbs such as catnip, coriander, nasturtiums, and
tansy repel insects.
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Cucumbers, pumpkins,
raspberries, squash, sunflowers and tomatoes.
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Pumpkins
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Corn
and sunflowers provide shade. Beans, clover and peas enrich the soil
for future crops.
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Potatoes and raspberries.
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Radishes
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Beans,
carrots, kohlrabi, onions and parsnips enhance growth. Likes, lettuce,
beets, spinach, parsnips, cucumbers, squash, melons, tomatoes.
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Grapes, hyssop. Do not
rotate with any members of the cabbage family: (cabbage, cauliflower,
brussel sprouts, kohlrabi, broccoli or turnip).
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Spinach
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Strawberries
improve growth and flavor.
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Cabbage and potatoes.
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Squash
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Corn
provides shade. Mint, nasturtiums, and radishes repel squash bugs and
other insect pests.
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Potatoes
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Tomatoes
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Asparagus,
basil, borage, and marigolds repel insect pests. Parsley improves
growth. Like chives, onions, nasturtiums, carrots, garlic, stinging
nettle.
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Black walnut trees, corn,
dill, kohlrabi, potatoes, all brassicas, fennel, corn
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Turnip
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Rutabaga,
Peas
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