Companion planting and moon planting

[ducks4you]

I would look at a LOT of companion planting articles bc almost none of the ones I've read and saved have jived. There are a few givens, and here is what I've found works.
1) carrots do love tomatoes and you can succession plant, like I am doing this year.
2) onions grow great with lettuce and radishes. I have a salad garden every year with these.
3) two types of different root vegetables don't like the competition.
4) asparagus likes tomatoes, too.
5) most cabbages like to grow with kohlrabi and brussel sprouts, and broccoli and cauliflower.
6) turnips don't care WHO grows next to them, bc they are really edible weeds. There is a turnip variety that doesn't bulb and you eat the greens. I'm growing those this year for my chickens.
7) grow your herbs in your vegetable and flower beds. Oregano is great bc it spreads and smells great if you have to pull some out.
8) grow flowers in your vegetable beds. I have grown marigolds and geraniums in with my vegetables, as well as allysium.
When you are weeding, you don't have to pull the clover. It fixes nitrogen in the soil, so that helps. I often leave it, and then don't cry if I pull it out, just throw it down in the bed to decompose.

 

[Just-Moxie]

Some things seem to grow well with others, some do not. Like lettuce and cabbage....when I had them together, neither thrived.

 

[897tgigvib]

Ducks, is your Turnip Greens variety called Tyfon Holland Greens? They are absolutely delicious, and the leaf stem eats like Celery but with a mild turnip flavor. I have 2 plants making their seed pods right now. Took them a full year, well, over a year, to go to seed.

 

[Smithyard Farm]

bringing this up again... wondering if anyone had success and or issues wit their companion planting....

 

[digitS']

For an overview of Wampanoag, Hidatsa, and Zuni companion gardening, you can look at this from the National Center for Appropriate Technology. It is near the bottom of the page. Go ahead and click the

"View Now" .

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/complant.html

digitS'

 

[so lucky]

From this site Steve suggests, I thought this to be of interest to squash growers:

Physical Spatial Interactions
For example, tall-growing, sun-loving plants may share space with lower-growing, shade-tolerant species, resulting in higher total yields from the land. Spatial interaction can also yield pest control benefits. The diverse canopy resulting when corn is companion-planted with squash or pumpkins is believed to disorient the adult squash vine borer and protect the vining crop from this damaging pest. In turn, the presence of the prickly vines is said to discourage raccoons from ravaging the sweet corn.

Might be helpful to you who have had problems with squash vine borer?

 

[Kassaundra]

By the moon phase, no, I plant when I can based on my life at the moment. I have a hard enough time keeping up w/ what day it is let alone what the moon is doing.

Companion planting, I have tried w/ some success and some not, but I am pretty hap hazard too so ..........

 

[so lucky]

It sure seems that I have much fewer insect pests when I interplant marigolds with tomatoes, cabbage--just about everything. And it looks nice!