🌱Get the Most Out of Your Garden with Companion Planting

Do you have pests in your garden every year eating up your produce? Maybe you have a handle on pests but your garden does not yield as much produce as expected? Companion planting is a great way to use nature's resources to get the most out of your garden experience by attracting beneficial bugs while deterring harmful ones, using shade plants to aid others on those hot summer days and providing a healthy garden by planting produce together that nutritionally balance one another.

Tomatoes

• Tomatoes prefer to be planted in the same spot year after year

Sweet Bell Peppers

• Do well near okra plants and basil. Since our summers can be very hot and dry, peppers will do best in a location of the garden that is shaded part of the day

Corn

•  Cucumbers, potatoes, beans, and pumpkins. Be aware that cucumbers and pumpkins are hindered by potatoes but if you have a couple rows of corn between these, it can be beneficial.

Squash & Pumpkins

• Nasturtiums are beneficial in reducing squash bugs and pumpkin bugs.

A great resource to use for companion planting is the book Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte. It is our go to when planning our garden. We highly recommend giving it a read if you are interested in a better output from your garden!