| Planting Your Vegetables Among Their Friends. | | | | mush dislike onions, shallots and garlic. |
| 'Tis the season of fruitfulness and we have just been | | | | Beet - does not like climbing or dwarf beans. |
| planting a vegetable garden in a part of our garden | | | | Cabbage - likes potatoes and herbs. Especially sage |
| that has been out of commission for the last two | | | | which also helps to repel insects. |
| years. In fact the soil although lying fallow, had | | | | Carrots - like chives, onions, leeks, sage, peas and |
| become quite hardened due to heavy machinery | | | | lettuce. |
| travelling across the top of it in order to access the | | | | Celery - likes dwarf beans, potatoes, peas and dill. |
| back of the house where our bathroom was being | | | | Cucumber - likes chives, beans, peas, potatoes, and |
| refurbished. After borrowing a cultivator, much | | | | cabbage. |
| digging, judicious use of gypsum to combat the clay, | | | | Garlic - hates beans and peas. |
| fertilising, and worm juice use I am happy to report | | | | Kohlrabi - likes onions and beet, but does not like |
| that about 75% of the garden is now planted, and | | | | climbing beans. |
| planted following the companion planting method | | | | Leeks - likes celery. |
| discussed in Esther Deans' gardening book "growing | | | | Lettuce - likes carrots and radishes. |
| without digging" | | | | Onions - likes the influence of carrots. |
| So to explain - Companion Planting in a vegetable | | | | Parsley - likes asparagus and tomatoes. |
| garden is really just putting plants together that like | | | | Peas - likes turnips, beans, sweet corn, radishes, |
| each other and will grow well in each others' | | | | carrots, cucumbers, but hates the onion family. |
| company rather than just existing or sulking their | | | | Potato- likes beans, peas, sweet corn, cabbage, but |
| way through life. By following Esthers' | | | | dislikes tomatoes and sunflowers. |
| recommendations we have planted members of the | | | | Pumpkin - dislikes potatoes, but does enjoy the |
| onion family with carrots; tomatoes with basil; sugar | | | | company of sweet corn. |
| snap peas with corn and potatoes. Lettuce likes | | | | Radish - likes most of the plants on the garden. |
| carrots so we planted them near the carrots who in | | | | Tomatoes - likes parsley, asparagus and basil but |
| turn like onions - thankfully that is one bed organised. | | | | dislikes kohlrabi and potatoes. |
| Bit like a jigsaw puzzle really. | | | | Swedes and Turnips - like peas. |
| For the extension of your gardening knowledge I | | | | Oops - after reading through the list again I have just |
| now present a most useful list of vegetable likes and | | | | seen that maybe the potatoes may need to be |
| dislikes! The following extract comes from Esther | | | | moved for the third time; possibly a bit close to the |
| Deans gardening book "growing without digging", and | | | | tomatoes! |
| can be found on page 38. | | | | Once all these potentially yummy vegetables start to |
| Asparagus - likes parsley and tomatoes. | | | | grow I will take a photograph and post it on this |
| Broad Beans - likes carrots, cauliflower, red beet, | | | | page to show how our attempts at companion |
| cucumber, cabbage, potatoes, leeks and celery. They | | | | planting amiably takes root and flourishes! We |
| don't like members of the onion family. | | | | optimistically look forward to a giant harvest. |
| Dwarf and Climbing Peas - like sweet corn and very | | | | |