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Companion Planting chart

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Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:04 pm

Very useful.
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Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:51 pm

It's funny about onion family vs beans and peas - I even heard that beans don't make a good rotation for them, they don't like the place beans were. I haven't seen it but it makes me wonder.
They better not mind being in the place that peas grew, because I have a load of peas going in my garlic bed rotations this season!
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Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:00 pm

Can’t open the image on my iPhone. Any tips how I can do it or can you give a link to your source? Thanks!

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Post: # 13474Unread post Rajun Gardener
Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:02 pm

Gardadore wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:00 pm Can’t open the image on my iPhone. Any tips how I can do it or can you give a link to your source? Thanks!
Does this work? If not here's the link. http://bodynsoil.com/blog/2012/06/compa ... -organics/
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Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:09 pm

I hope the onion and tomato thing works because I dont have a choice. :lol:
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Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:32 pm

I am not a believer in companion planting or planting by the phases of the moon either.

I do practice crop rotation in my garden as much as I am able and I do not plant things close together that can cross and change the flavor of the resulting vegetable like planting sweet corn too close to popcorn or ornamental corn. This can make the sweet corn taste less sweet.

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Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:50 pm

My tall pea fence is a permanent fixture on one of my 4x12' raised beds. I've planted the empty front of that bed with usually onions, sometimes garlic or leeks most years, and never noticed that the peas cared a whit. As long as roots don't intertwine and rob nutrition from each other, I don't pay attention to companion planting.

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Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:38 am

I don't companion plant, although everything is close to everything else. I do see the value of the Native American "three sisters" planting of corn, beans, & squash together. It's efficient. The bean vines climb up the corn, and the squash uses up the unused space down at the ground level.

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Thu Mar 12, 2020 3:16 pm

Seems to be working now on Tomato Junction but no luck with the link!

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Thu Mar 12, 2020 3:25 pm

Gardadore wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 3:16 pm Seems to be working now on Tomato Junction but no luck with the link!

That's weird, I can't get it either, the site closed or removed it. Here's a link to a downloadable chart.
https://www.template.net/business/chart ... ing-chart/
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Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:45 pm

handy to have this right on site ….thanks
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Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:34 pm

Nan6b wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:38 am I don't companion plant, although everything is close to everything else. I do see the value of the Native American "three sisters" planting of corn, beans, & squash together. It's efficient. The bean vines climb up the corn, and the squash uses up the unused space down at the ground level.

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I tried that once in pots but it didn't work out well for the corn which appeared not to get pollinated.
Pots aren't great for everything!

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Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:35 pm

I tried the 3 Sisters method just for some historical fun but it was not so productive for me. When the Native Americans grew the 3 Sisters they were using corn plants that were several feet taller than the varieties that we grow. Also under my corn was a tangle of vines and it was impossible to move around efficiently for harvest.

The native Americans also had water issues so growing in close proximity made a lot more sense. I found that since I have plenty of space as well as water that things like beans, corn and squash produce a lot better in their own separate spaces.

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