Introduction to Companion Planting Charts:
Companion planting is a rather simple concept where you find plants that are mutually beneficial to one another, and then you plant them in the garden side by side. The end result, if you have chosen the right combination of plants, is both plants will not only thrive in this situation, but you should also see much better performance than if both were planted separately in their own space.
There is a wealth of information out there on companion planting charts but in my own research I realized that much of it is jumbled and difficult to read and understand. Since we have discussed companion planting so often in various articles on this site, I decided I should probably take some time and compile information that I've seen scattered about, and hopefully in the end make it a little more intuitive and user-friendly. The following lists are by no means definitive as the technique of companion planting charts is ever-evolving and gardeners are always coming up with new combinations.
Companion Planting Charts for Herbs:
Basil - Helps oregano, peppers, tomatoes, petunias, asparagus - Avoid Rue
Borage - Helps most everything, especially cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries
Caraway - Helps strawberries
Chamomile - Helps cucumbers, cabbage, onions, wheat, basil
Chervil - Helps broccoli, lettuce - repels aphids
Cilantro - Helps spinach
Chives - Helps cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, carrots, apples, mustard - Avoid peas, beans
Dill - Helps cucumbers, onions, lettuce, corn, cabbage - Avoid tomatoes, carrots
Fennel - Helps Dill - Avoid just about everything else!
Garlic - Helps celery, lettuce, cucumbers, roses, pear trees, apple trees - Avoid peas, cabbage, beans
Hemp - Helps kales, brussels sprouts, cabbage
Hyssop - Helps grapes, cabbage
Lovage - Helps most plants - Avoid rhubarb
Oregano - Helps peppers, tomatoes, and many others - repels aphids
Peppermint - Helps kales, broccoli, kohlrabi, cabbage
Rosemary - Helps carrots, beans, cabbage, sage - Avoid basil
Sage - Helps carrots, beans, cabbage, rosemary - repels many insects
Southernwood - Helps fruit trees
Spearmint - repels ant and aphids
Summer Savory - Helps onions, green beans
Tansy - Helps roses, corn, squash, cucumbers, beans
Tarragon - Helps just about everything except eggplants
Thyme - Helps broccoli, cabbage
Companion Planting Charts for Flowers:
Geraniums - Helps grapes, peppers, tomatoes, corn, roses
Lupin - Helps strawberries, dill, rosemary, lettuce, brassica - Avoid tomatoes
Marigolds - Helps just about everything, mostly peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, cucumbers, squash
Petunias - Helps asparagus, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash
Nasturtium - Helps many plants but mostly brassicas, tomatoes, beans, cucurbits, apple trees - Avoid cauliflower, radishes
Sunflowers - Helps tomatoes, corn - repels aphids
Tansy - Helps corn, roses, berries, cucurbits - repels many insects
Yarrow - Helps a wide range of plants by enriching the soil
Companion Planting Charts for Vegetables:
Asparagus - Helps tomatoes - Avoid potatoes, garlic, onions
Brassicas - Avoid peppers, tomatoes, mustards
Beans - Helps cucumbers, strawberries, radishes, carrots, dill, summer savory rosemary, lettuce, spinach, corn - Avoid broccoli, cabbage, kales, garlic, onions, peppers, tomatoes
Beets - Helps brassicas, onions, kohlrabi, lettuce - Avoid pole and runner beans
Broccoli - Helps nasturtium, rosemary, alliums, dill, geraniums - Avoid peppers, tomatoes, mustards
Cabbage - Helps rosemary, alliums, dill, geraniums - Avoid pole and runner beans, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, mustards
Carrots - Helps lettuce, chives, onions, alliums, tomatoes - Avoid radishes, parsnip, dill
Celery - Helps snapdragons, daisies, cosmos - Avoid asters, corn
Corn - Helps beans - Avoid celery, tomatoes
Cucumbers - Avoid sage, tomatoes
Eggplants - Helps peppers, beans
Leek - Helps apple trees, celery - Avoid swiss chard, peas, beans
Lettuce - Helps carrots, beans, kohlrabi, radishes - Avoid parsley, cress, cabbage, celery
Mustard - Helps turnips, Brussels sprouts, radishes, cauliflower, cabbage
Onions - Helps cabbage, broccoli, kale, tomatoes - Avoid parsley, peas, lentils, beans
Peppers - Helps marjoram - Avoid Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, beans
Potatoes - Avoid tomatoes, sunflowers, squash, raspberries, cucumbers, carrots
Parsnip - Helps fruit trees - repels various predatory insects
Pumpkin/Squash - Helps beans, corn
Tomatoes - Helps asparagus, peppers, roses - Avoid rosemary, cabbage, kohlrabi, beetroot, potatoes, dill, peas, fennel, corn
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