If you’re just getting into square foot gardening for the first year or looking for a fresh way to plan your small space vegetable garden, ... Read more The post Companion Planting Chart for ...

Companion planting is the layperson term for growing two (or more) crops in close proximity. While the benefits vary depending on the species, the goal is to produce healthier plants and greater ...

As practiced for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, companion planting was a seating chart for the garden. Plants that “got along” were grown near each other for the benefit of one or both.

DEPENDING ON WHO you ask, companion planting is either a brilliant garden strategy or yet another case of horticulture hooey. History tells us that Native Americans combined plantings of beans ...

Eventually, companion planting was scientifically proven to be beneficial in several different ways. Some companion plants can serve as insect attractants that lure pests away from crop plants.

So the concept of companion planting, an old belief that adding certain plants around existing crops can boost pest resistance, yields and even flavour, is one that has always appealed to me.

Companion planting is the practice of growing different plant species together for mutual or one-sided benefits, it can also be described as a gardening technique that blends traditional wisdom with ...