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Companion Planting Chart

Definition: The close planting of different plants that enhance each other's growth or protect each other from pests.

Companion Planting in the Vegetable Garden; Edible Crops


Crop

Compatible Companions

Incompatible


Asparagus

Tomato, Parsley, Basil

 


Beans

Most vegetables and herbs

Onion, garlic, gladiolus


Beans, bush

Irish potato, cucumber, corn, strawberry, celery, summer savory

Onion family


Beans, pole

Corn, summer savory, radish

Onion, beets, kohlrabi, sunflower


Beets

Cabbage and onion families, lettuce

Pole beans


Cabbage family

Aromatic herbs, celery, beets, onion family, chamomile, spinach, chard

Dill, strawberry, pole beans, tomato


Carrots

English peas, lettuce, rosemary, onion family, sage, tomato

Dill


Celery

Onion and cabbage families, tomato, bush beans, nasturtium

 


Corn

Irish potato, beans, English peas, pumpkin, cucumber, squash

Tomato


Cucumber

Beans, corn, English peas, sunflowers, radish

Irish potato, aromatic herbs


Eggplant

Beans, marigold

 


Lettuce

Carrot, radish, strawberry, cucumber

 


Onion family

Beets, carrot, lettuce, cabbage family, summer savory

Beans, English peas


Parsley

Tomato, asparagus

 


Peas, English

Carrots, radish, turnips, cucumber, corn, beans

Onion family, gladiolus, Irish potato


Potato, Irish

Beans, corn, cabbage family, marigolds, horseradish

Pumpkin, squash, tomato, cucumber, sunflower


Pumpkins

Corn, marigold

Irish potato


Radish

English peas, nasturtium, lettuce, cucumber

Hyssop


Spinach

Strawberry, fava beans

 


Squash

 Nasturtium, corn, marigold

 Irish potato


Tomato

Basil, onion family, nasturtium, marigold, asparagus, carrot, parsley, cucumber

Corn, Irish potato, fennel, cabbage family


Turnip

English peas

Irish potato


Source: Edible Landscaping Handbook, Companion Planting Chart for Home & Market Gardening, pg 15, prepared for the UC Master Gardener Program by the California Center for Urban Horticulture, UC Davis. Original Source: ATTRA (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas) Companion Planting: Basic Concepts & Resources


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