companion growing?

Good & Bad companion plants in the vegetable garden:

http://www.minifarmhomestead.com/gardening/compani...

Vegetable companions:

http://www.commongroundinpaloalto.org/vegetablecom...

Scroll down to companion/plant chart:

http://www.seedsofchange.com/enewsletter/issue_55/...

Here's another companion planting guide:

http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html

Here's some companion plants that can benefit your garden:

http://www.mi.ca/compendium/

Native American "Three Sisters Companion Planting" - corn, squash and pole beans:

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/gr_fruits_vegetables...

Good luck! Hope this helps.

The best results for you will be achieved if you set down with a paper and map out your garden based on your soil types, and sun shine available. What works in my garden will not work in yours because of soil differences and sunshine available.

Companion planting means putting plants with similar needs in soil and nutrients and sunshine available to your garden.

In other words, don't plant something with little leaf area like an onion or carrot with something that has a lot of leaf area like a squash or the onion and carrot won't get sunshine.

Potatoes and onions or carrots would be excellent companions. Corn and squash are good companions the corn grows above the squash and the squash has enough leaf to catch the sunshine that gets through the corn stalks. Same with peppers and lettuce or spinach, you will have picked the lettuce by the time the peppers need the space lettuce takes up. Then plant radishes or some other low growing plant under the peppers.

Same with nutrients and soil. Tomato's are low nitrogen soil while Corn, Peppers and others require high nitrogen.

Just draw a picture of your garden space, add any thing like trees that shade it part of the day, then assign space to the different veggies you want to grow.

There are so many that entire BOOKS are written about the subject.

Look up anything with the topic "Companion Planting". The original companion planting book title is "Carrots love Tomatoes" - but there have since been lots of books published, some of which I think improve on it.

OH - and one of the first things you need to change about your thinking is the "vegi garden only". The whole point is to MIX PLANTS UP. Interplanting certain other veggies sometimes works, but often interplanting certain flowers will attract beneficial insects into the area (or sometimes, just deter).

If you grow cilantro (coriander) - I recommend sowing it every few weeks (by merely tossing the seeds here and there), and then letting some of them bolt and go to flower. Not only can you keep yourself in a steady supply of seeds for next year's cilantro, but those flower attract MASSES of beneificials that paracitize the "bad" bugs.

Here is a companion planting chart for you..I well believe in companion planting..Have a look at my garden...Basil planted next to tomatoes will "sweeten" the tomatoes...Plant marigolds around the borders for a natural insect repellent..the chart here will telll you alot though

http://www.gardenguides.com/how-to/tipstechniques/...

http://www.tinkersgardens.com/vegetables/companion...

I know that there are a lot of books out there on it. I do not off hand know the names of any except for Tomatoes Love Carrots or some such thing. Our Native American friends have the custom of planting in the form of the Three Sisters: corn, squash, and beans; for plant health.

Amaranth is a tropical annual plant that desires very heat to warm circumstances to flourish. The sparkling, youthful leaves could be eaten in salads. Plant Amaranth with candy corn because it’s leaves grant colour which permits the soil to maintain moisture. Amaranth is a great host to predatory floor beetles.

Great site for companion growing below. This site is made for school teachers, and have a great overview and some wonderful ideas!