Vegetables

Vegetables
Common name scientific name Helps Helped by Attracts Repels / Distracts Avoid Comments fruit trees, nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, etc), carrots brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi, etc) carrots Aster Family flowers, Dill, Coriander, Tomatoes Tomatoes, Parsley, Basil, Comfrey, Marigolds geraniums, dill, alliums (onions, shallots, garlic, etc), rosemary, nasturtium, borage Corn (see Eggplant, Three Summer Sisters), savory Spinach, lettuce, rosemary, summer savory, dill, carrots, brassicas, beets,

Alliums

Allium

slugs, aphids, beans, peas, carrot fly, parsley cabbage worms[1]

Alliums include onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives, and others

Asparagus

Asparagus officinalis

Onion, Garlic, Potatoes

Marigolds will deter beetles.

Brassicas

Brassica

Beans,

Phaseolus

Brassicas are a family of species which mustards, include nightshades broccoli, (tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, etc) brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and cauliflower. California Tomatoes, Hosts nitrogenbeetles chili fixing bacteria, peppers, a good fertilizer sunflowers, for some plants, alliums too much for (onions, others garlic, etc), kales (cabbage, broccoli, etc)

radish, strawberry and cucumbers Good for adding minerals to the soil through composting Runner or leaves which pole beans have up to 25% magnesium. Runner or pole beans and beets stunt each other's growth. Rosemary repels cabbage fly, geraniums trap cabbage worms, same general mustards, companion Tomatoes, profile as all peppers brassica (cabbage, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, etc) Rosemary repels cabbage flies, geraniums trap cabbage mustards, worms, same Tomatoes, general peppers companion strawberries, profile as all and brassica pole/runner (cabbage, beans kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, etc) Dill, Tomatoes grow parsnip, better with radish carrots, but may

Beets,

lettuce, kohlrabi, Catnip, Beta Vulgaris onions and Garlic, Mint brassicas

Broccoli

Brassica oleracea

geraniums, dill, alliums, rosemary, nasturtium, borage

Cabbage

Brassica oleracea

geraniums, dill, alliums, rosemary

Carrots

Daucus carota

Tomatoes, alliums Alliums (leeks, (onions, shallots,

assassin bug, lacewing,

etc), rosemary, chives, etc), wormwood, lettuce sage, beans, flax

parasitic wasp, yellow jacket and other predatory wasps

stunt the carrots' growth. Beans (which are bad for tomatoes) provide the nitrogen carrots need more than some other vegetables. Aromatic companion plants repel carrot fly. Sage, rosemary, and radishes are recommended by some as companion plants, but listed by others as incompatible. Alliums interplanted with carrots confuse onion and carrot flies. For the beneficial insect-attracting properties of carrots to work, they need to be allowed to flower; Otherwise, use the wild carrot, Queen Anne's Lace, for the same effect. Flax produces an oil that may protect root vegetables like carrots from some pests. corn, Aster flowers, these can

Celery,

Apium graveolens

Cosmos, Daisies, Snapdragons

transmit the aster yellows disease Sunflowers, legumes (beans, peas, soybeans etc), peanuts, cucurbits (squash, cucumbers, melons, etc), amaranth, white geranium, lamb's quarters, morning glory, parsley, and potato Nasturtiums, radishes, marigolds, sunflowers peas, beets, carrots, and Dill Helped by Marigolds, tarragon, mints

Corn / Maize

Zea mays

beans

Tomato, Celery

Provides beans with a trellis, is protected from predators and dryness by cucurbits, in the three sisters technique

Cucumber

Cucumis Sativus

Beneficial for ground beetles Repels / Distracts

Tomato, Sage

Common name

scientific name

Helps Beans, Peppers

Attracts

Avoid

Comments

Eggplant or Solanum Aubergine melongena

Leek

Allium Celery, ampeloprasu carrots apple trees m v. porrum

Lettuce

Lactuca sativa

Radish, Kohlrabi, beans, carrots

Marigolds will deter nematodes. Same cabbage companion worms, Legumes traits as all aphids, (beans, peas, alliums carrot fly, etc) (onions, garlic, others shallots, chives, etc) celery, Mints cabbage, (including cress, hyssop, sage, parsley and various "balms") repel slugs, a bane

Mustard

Cabbage, cauliflower, Brassicaceae, radish, Sinapis alba brussels sprouts, turnips

various pests

Nightshades Solanaceae

carrots, alliums, mints (basil, oregano, etc)

beans, black walnuts, corn, fennel, dill, brassica (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, etc) Attracts Repels / Distracts Avoid beans, kale (cabbage, brussels sprouts, etc)

of lettuce and cabbages Same general companion profile as all brassica (cabbage, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, etc) Nightshade plants include tomatoes, tobacco, chili peppers (including bell peppers), potatoes, eggplant, and others Comments Pepper plants like high humidity, which can be helped along by planting with some kind of denseleaf or groundcover companion, like marjoram and basil; they also need direct sunlight, but their fruit can be harmed by it...pepper plants grown together, or with tomatoes, can shelter the fruit from sunlight, and

Common scientific name name Peppers Solanaceae, Capsicum

Helps

Helped by

themselves, tomatoes, marjoram geraniums, petunias

Onion

Allium cepa

Tomatoes, Kales (broccoli, Carrots cabbage, etc)

Potato

Solanum tuberosum

Horseradish

Pumpkin Squash

Curcurbita spp

Buckwheat, Spiders, catnip, corn, beans Ground tansy, Beetles radishes

Spinach

Spinacia oleracea

Peas, Beans

Tomatoes

roses, Solanum peppers, lycopersicum asparagus

basil, oregano, parsley, carrots, marigold, Alliums, celery, Geraniums, Petunias, Nasturtium, Borage, any type of onion or chives

raises the humidity level. Same companion aphids, traits as all carrot fly, beans, peas, other alliums other parsley (chives, garlic, pests shallots, leeks, etc) Horseradish Sunflower, increases the Tomato, disease Cucumber resistance of potatoes Flea Beetles are warded off by radishes, Curcurbita can be used in the three sisters technique The peas and beans provide natural shade for the spinach Black walnuts inhibit tomato growth, in fact they are Black allelopathic to walnut, all other corn, fennel, nightshade peas, dill, plants (chili potatoes, asparagus pepper, potato, beetroot, beetle tobacco, brassicas petunia) as (kohlrabi, well, because cabbage, it produces a etc), chemical rosemary called juglone. Dill attracts tomato horn worm.

[edit] Herbs

Herbs
Common name scientific name Helps Helped by Attracts Repels / Distracts Avoid

Comments

Basil

Ocimum basilicum

tomato, peppers, oregano, asparagus, petunias

chamomile, butterflies anise

is said to make tomatoes common taste better, rue, sage, chamomile asparagus beetle, rosemary and anise are mosquitoes and flies (basil will supposed to kill your increase the rosemary) essential oils in many herbs like basil

Borage

Borago officinalis

Almost everything, especially strawberry, cucurbits (cucumber, gourds), tomatoes Strawberrie s Basil, Wheat, Onion, Cabbage, Cucumber

Predatory insects, honeybees

many pests

Borage is th magic bullet of companion plants

Caraway

Carum carvi

Parasitic wasps, parasitic flies Growing near herbs will increase their oil production.

Chamomile

Matricaria recutita

Hoverflies, wasps

Chervil

Anthriscus cerefolium

Radish, lettuce, broccoli

aphids

loves shade, fortunately i grows well with shadetolerant food plants; will make radishes grown near i taste spicier

Cilantro / Coriander Chives

Coriandrum sativum Allium

spinach Apples,

beans, peas tachinid fly carrots

aphids, spider mites and potato beetle cabbage worms, beans, peas Same

carrots, tomatoes, brassica schoenoprasu (broccoli, m cabbage, mustard, etc), many others

carrot fly, aphids

companion traits as all alliums (onions, garlic, shallots, leeks, etc)said to prevent appl scab after 3 years planting at base of appl trees Avoid

Common name

scientific name

Helps

Helped by

Attracts

Repels / Distracts

Comments

Dill

Anethum graveolens

Cabbages, Corn, Lettuce, Onions, Cucumbers

Hoverflies, Wasps, Tomato Aphids, spider Horn carrots, mites, squash bugs, Worms, tomatoes cabbage looper honeybees, Ichneumonid Wasps

one of the few plants said to grow with fennel

Fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

Dill

Dill

Garlic

Apple trees, Pear trees, Roses, Allium sativum Cucumbers, Peas, Lettuce, Celery Cannabis sativa L. subsp. sativa Brassica (cabbage, brussels

Hemp

Fennel is allelopathic to most garden plants, ladybugs, Almost inhibiting syrphid fly, aphids everything growth, tachinid fly causing to bolt, or actually killing many plants Deters rabbits, sam companion Aphids, cabbage traits as all looper, ants, rabbits, alliums cabbage maggot (onions, chives, shallots, leeks, etc) Repels many types of beetles whic

sprouts, other kales) Hyssop Hyssopus officinalis Cabbage, grapes honeybees, butterflies Cabbage moth larvae, Cabbage Butterflies

Lovage

Levisticum officinale

Almost all plants

beans

Ichneumonid Wasps, ground beetles (good)

rhubarb

Oregano

Origanum vulgare

Tomatoes, peppers, basil many other plants

aphids

attack cabbages. Stimulates growth of grapes. Is thought to improve the health of almost all plants, like borage and geraniums, i considered a "magic bullet" of companion planting provides ground cove and muchneeded humidity for pepper plant if allowed to spread among them

Common name

scientific name

Helps Brassica (cabbage, kholrabi, broccoli, and the other kales) sage, cabbage, beans, carrots rosemary, cabbage, beans, carrots Fruit trees

Helped by

Attracts

Repels / Distracts

Avoid

Comments

Peppermint

Mentha piperita

cabbage fly, ants, cabbage looper

Rosemary

Rosmarinus officinalis

bean beetle

Basil

Sage

Salvia officinalis

honeybees, cabbage butterfly

cabbage flies, carrot fly, black flea beetle, cabbage looper, cabbage maggot

Southernwood Artemisia abrotanum

Repels cabbage flie has same general companion properties as other mints Deters cabbage flie repels many bean parasites Deters cabbage flie repels many bean parasites Controls cabbage moths and

Spearmint

Mentha spicata

ants, aphids

Summer Savoury

Satureja hortensis

Green beans, onions,

Tansy

Tanacetum vulgare

beans, cucurbits (cucumbers, squash, etc), corn, roses

honeybees

flying insects(Ichneumonid Wasps), Japanese beetles, striped cucumber beetles, squash bugs and ants

Tarragon

Artemisia dracunculus

Everything, but especially eggplant

malaria mosquitoes. Controls ant and aphids, has same general companion properties as other mints. also delays germination of certain foul herbs Is reputed to generally repel insects (except for nectar-eating types). This herb should not be consumed, a it is quite toxic. Its scent is disliked by most pests, and this plan is also thought to have Nurse Plant properties, enhancing the growth and flavor o crops grown with it.

[edit] Flowers

Flowers
Common Latin Name Helps Name Geraniums Pelargoniu Roses, m spp. tomatoes, Helped by Attracts Repels / Distracts leafhoppers, Japanese Avoid Comments A trap crop, attracting pests

peppers, grapes

beetles

Lupin

Lupinus

Marigold

Asteraceae Calendula Tagetes

Cucurbits, brassica, lettuce, summer Honeybees rosemary, savory dill, strawberry most plants, especially tomatoes and peppers, cucurbits (cucumbers, gourds, squash), brassicas (broccoli, kale, cabbage)

tomatoes and other solanicae nematodes, beet leaf hoppers, other pests

away from roses and grape vines, distracts beet leafhoppers, carrier of the curly top virus, away from Solanaceous plants like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and tobacco This wildflower is actually a legume, hosting bacteria that fixes nitrogen in the soil, fertilizing it for neighboring plants Marigolds are a wonder-drug of the companion plant world, invoking the saying "plant them everywhere in your garden". French marigolds produce a pesticidal chemical from their roots, so strong it lasts years after they are gone. Mexican marigolds do the same, but are so strong they will inhibit the growth of some more tender herbs. Certain Varieties of marigolds (Tagetes) can help manage eelworms (Rootknot nematode) when planted the year before [1]. Tagetes has also been found effective against perennial weeds such as Ranunculus ficaria (Celandine),

Aegopodium podagraria (Ground elder), Glechoma hederacea (Ground ivy), Agropyron repens (Couch grass), Convolvulus arvensis (Field bindweed), Equisetum arvense (Field/Common Horsetail) and other 'starchy' weeds. cucurbits (squash, pumpkins, cucumbers), asparagus leafhoppers, Japanese beetles, aphids, asparagus beetle Is a trap crop almost identical to geraniums in function

Petunia

Petunia x hybrida

Many plants, especially cucurbits (melons, cucumbers, gourds), Tropaeolum Nasturtium beans, majus tomatoes, apple trees, brassicas (broccoli, cabbage, etc), radish

predatory insects

aphids, cabbage looper, radish, squash bug, cauliflower white fly, cucumber beetles

Both work as trap crops for aphids, is among the best at attracting predatory insects[citation needed]

Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

corn, tomatoes

aphids

Tansy

Tanacetum vulgare

cucurbits (cucumbers,

sugar ants, Japanese

Was grown as a companion for corn(maize) before modern Europeans arrived in the Americas, supposedly increases their production, ants herd aphids onto sunflowers, keeping them off neighboring plants Toxic to many animals, don't plant

squash, etc), raspberries and relatives, roses, corn

beetles, cucumber beetles, squash bugs, mice

it where livestock browse May increase the essential oil production of some herbs. Also improves soil quality, use the leaves to enrich compost, or as mulch.

Yarrow

Achillea many plants millefolium

predatory wasps, ladybugs, hoverflies, damselbugs

[edit] Other

Other
Common Name Latin Name Helps Helped by Attracts Repels / Avoid Distracts Comments

Alfalfa

Medicago Cotton sativa

assassin bug, big-eyed bug, Lygus Ladybug, bugs parastic wasps

Used by farmers to reduce cotton pests, a good crop to improve soil; fixes nitrogen like beans do. Also breaks up hardpan and other tough soil.

[edit] Trees
[edit] Apple

APPLE TREES
Common Name Apple Latin Name Malus domestica Helps Helped by Clover, Chive, Garlic, Leek, Nasturtium, Southernwood, Daffodils, Comfrey Attracts Repels / Distracts Avoid Cedar because of apple-cedar rust Comments

[edit] Apricot

APRICOT TREES
Common Helped Repels / Latin Name Helps Attracts Avoid Name by Distracts Comments

Apricot

Prunus armeniaca

A fungus that peppers are prone to can infect apricot trees causing a lot of harm.